Briana Rose Lee 🌹☮
@BrianaRoseLee
Chair Emerita @MinneapolisDFL, Operations @IlhanMN State Executive Committee @minnesotadfl AEA 🎭 - IATSE Local 490 🎬 - MA ✈ MN (she/her)
I don't want schools fully funded. I want schools OVER funded. I want school closets overflowing with resources. I want teachers to have extra supplies. I want kids to learn using the newest technology. Budgets show community priorities and it's time we invest in our future.
"Hoffman said the only other person he knows who was shot nine times and lived to tell about it is the rapper 50 Cent. 'You know what you should start calling me?” Hoffman quipped. “The 50-senator.'"
‘It’s good to be alive’: Sen. John Hoffman speaks out in first interview since assassination attempt startribune.com/its-good-to-be…
It's hard for me to overstate how incredible the Target Center staff were for the Minneapolis DFL convention. They were flexible and professional to ensure excellent accommodations for our convention. I will never get over the WOW when I walked into the bowl the day before.
Press release from @MinneapolisDFL docs.google.com/document/d/1fK…
478 is well over quorum. Argue with the wall. Good day.
Results for @MinneapolisDFL endorsement of candidates for Park Board At-Large. Congratulations to our endorsed candidates!
I survived two Ward 10 conventions in the span of two years. I was at the Storming of the Stage. I saw an honest-to-God Mondale get shoved in Ward 7 this year. I watched the purge in Ward 2. You have nothing to teach me about the norms and procedures of political conventions.
The part of democracy that people really seem to struggle with is it actually doesn't matter what *you* personally think. It's about the will of the body/group and if you don't like it, truly it's a too bad situation.
Also- those who are criticizing the volunteer co-chairs and parliamentarian need to stop. A skilled, dedicated and experienced crew led us through a complex and contentious convention. They were the right people for a difficult and heroic job and I’m grateful to them.
Weird it needs to be said but to deny quorum YOU NEED HALF THE VOTES! Team Frey is not the first to see they’re losing at convention, fail to delay through procedural tactics, stage a dramatic walkout, and then unsuccessfully challenge quorum. It happened in Ward 9 in ‘17.🧵
If the Chair of CD5 isn’t removed from the code of conduct committee and doesn’t step down as Chair after calling a Jewish man a Nazi at the Mpls Convention this weekend, don’t ask me to respect leadership. He hasn’t earned it. He’s hurting the party.
One campaign tried a high risk tactic and it failed. What happened next is predictable and not unprecedented. x.com/WedgeLIVE/stat…
I'm sure this has been talked to death already, but when you pull your supporters off the convention floor, you know the risk is it will flop hard. The Frey campaign isn't stupid. They decided it was worth the risk. A 2017 example: startribune.com/article/420822…
I tried explaining crypto to my nine year old and she said, “It sounds like someone is trying to sell you their imaginary friend.”
The main story of this convention has got to be Frey's unpopularity. Coming into a convention with more than two-thirds of delegates seeking to replace you as mayor is a clear sign of failure. Any discussion of the process of the convention should take a backseat to this fact.
The sitting mayor barely cracked 30% of the convention delegates. In fact, he couldn’t even get to 34% to block suspensions of the rules. The floor strategy appeared to be “getting people on mics to make the same motion over and over again.” An embarrassing showing by Mayor Frey.
I want to thank everyone who showed up to support my campaign. This election should be decided by our entire city, not by a handful of delegates. I look forward to a full debate with Sen. Fateh about our records and visions for our Minneapolis's future. Onward to November!
We ask every candidate if they will suspend their campaign if they aren’t endorsed. Only one mayoral candidate said yes. I’m so proud that he is the one who earned the DFL endorsement. That’s a true DFLer. Someone who wants party unity around endorsements. Congrats Team Fateh!!
I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. fatehformayor.com/donate
I am incredibly honored to be nominated for the DFL endorsement. I am thankful to each and every one of you who showed up today to support my campaign for Mayor. I truly believe that the coalition we’re building can create a Minneapolis that all of us can afford to call home.
I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. fatehformayor.com/donate