This election is the DFL’s to lose and they’re working hard to do it!

The local precinct caucus is February 1. According to the Chisago-Isanti DFL web site:

DUE TO REDISTRICTING, WE STILL WILL NOT KNOW WHAT U.S. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CHISAGO OR ISANTI COUNTIES WILL BE IN UNTIL SOMETIME AFTER FEB. 15th.

The NON-ATTENDEE FORM tells me that:

As a non-attendee you won’t be able to vote (for candidates, delegates, or resolutions), but you will be able to:
• Be nominated and possibly elected as a precinct officer or a delegate or alternate to a higher level convention.
• Submit resolutions for caucus approval by attaching a Resolution Form. (Available at dfl.org/caucuses-conventions)
• Sign up to help in other ways: as an Election Judge, or as a member of a committee setting up for a higher level convention.

I can find no information regarding actual or potential candidates for my House or Senate district, presumably because local district boundaries depend on congressional district boundaries?

All of which makes me wonder

WHY THE HELL THE DFL IS STUPIDLY HOLDING CAUCUSES NOW!

will the number of nuts at a caucus attract squirrels?

Photo by J. Harrington

At least I can save money by not contributing to a political party that’s this disorganized. As for participation under these circumstances? I VOTE NO!

[UPDATE:

Redistricting

Both the DFL-led House and Republican-controlled Senate have released their proposed versions of new legislative and congressional redistricting maps. Neither set of plans makes dramatic changes to the current district lines, but each would bend them in subtle ways to benefit their own party at the polls. Yet neither plan is expected to become law, since it's unlikely the divided chambers will agree before the Feb. 15 deadline to strike a deal. Without a legislative agreement, a five-judge panel will release its own set of maps that day.]

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

By Vachel Lindsay

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.

My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.

I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute—he pets his fancies—

Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.

So he will be, though law be clear as crystal,

Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,

Crying to God in all the polling places

To heal our everlasting sinfulness

And make us sages with transfigured faces.

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