Jacob Hill
@JHillMPLS
1/5 On Tuesday just before 7 p.m., Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office detectives were making a traffic stop on a vehicle with no license plates at 36th and N. Thomas Avenue in Minneapolis. As two detectives were approaching the vehicle, they heard the sound of a gunshot.
I was elected city delegate at my precinct caucus then later inexplicably removed from the list. I saw my name clearly denoted as a city delegate in the caucus report book. When I asked him about it, the DFL Chair said that some delegates were "randomly" removed by credentials🤷♀️
🗳️ Take: I've seen some poorly run conventions, but the Minneapolis DFL convention might take the crown. Many delegates couldn't vote or their votes weren't counted on the first ballot, resulting in a total breakdown that undermined the democratic process.
Just a few minor details: that vote was missing 25% of the delegate body, couldn’t be observed by campaigns, and eliminated 3 of the 5 candidates
Great moments in convention history: Taylor and I reacting to the motion to revote the 1st mayoral ballot at the 2025 Minneapolis DFL convention (motion failed). I think we were like 10 hours into the convention at that point.
We agree with the former chair of the Minnesota DFL. The Minneapolis DFL convention was riddled with errors and we must do better as a party.
Have you taken sensitivity training since celebrating a constituent’s murder?
Quoting MLK’s Letter From A Birmingham Jail as a means of mocking a black pastor running for office? Yikes. Really disappointing invective coming from Sheriff Witt’s IGR Director.
I'm grateful that the two MPD officers injured this morning responding to a domestic abuse call are on the mend. These brave public servants acted with courage and honor — thank you to them and every officer who runs toward danger to keep our community safe.
Ppl would rather “burn it all down” and elect some crazy socialist than stick with a competent, center-left mayor. Actual suicidal ideology
One of the most YIMBY Democratic Mayors and these dipshits are trying to replace him with a Socialist. The Democrats have learned absolutely nothing.
Non-Minneapolitans need to understand how insane this is. Most people at our city endorsing convention now agree the first ballot was broken and affected the result. But because a DSAer won, the left has made “caring whether the count was accurate” an ideological litmus test.
What a lesson for the kids: when you experience injustice just lay down. Don't fight back. The same bullies that screwed you over the first time will say mean things about you so just take it.
Things have gotten so out of control that the left-leaning third-place candidate WHO WAS PROBABLY DROPPED FROM THE RACE DUE TO THE ERROR has now released a statement admitting he got screwed… and then declaring he wouldn’t challenge the result, and attacking the people who did.
After two days of mocking anyone who questioned the voting numbers at the Minneapolis city convention, our local leftists have suddenly pivoted to "Yeah, yeah, everyone knew the numbers were wrong, but we decided not to redo it"
It's absolutely wild. At the convention, the people pointing out the numbers were wrong got called conspiracy theorists trying to delay the inevitable. That's why they blocked a revote! Now that there's strong evidence, it's suddenly something everyone knew already
750+ delegates & upgraded alternates were there (probably more) at the time of the vote. Even several hours later at 9:20, there were still 699 dels/upgraded alts. It's ridiculous to claim that only 578 people tried to vote for the mayor's race.
JUST IN: @Jacob_Frey's campaign formally asked @MinnesotaDFL to throw out Saturday's @MinneapolisDFL endorsement of @OmarFatehMN. Their protest centers on the assertion that some delegates' ballots almost certainly weren't counted at Saturday's convention.
With 1030 delegates and alternates at the time of the first vote, the implication is that there were somehow ~580 delegates and 450 alternates with 220 empty seats. This is scarcely mathematically possible.
JUST IN: @Jacob_Frey's campaign formally asked @MinnesotaDFL to throw out Saturday's @MinneapolisDFL endorsement of @OmarFatehMN. Their protest centers on the assertion that some delegates' ballots almost certainly weren't counted at Saturday's convention.
This should be easy to prove!
The city's party has disputed this assertion, saying the online system may have been slow, but it did count every vote cast. Background >> axios.com/local/twin-cit…
Feel free to copy and paste this in response to anyone continuing to dishonestly argue that no one was disenfranchised yesterday.
There were around 650 of those delegates present, and 400 alternates waiting to fill the rest of those 140ish unfilled slots. The practice ballot had over 1000 responses. There should have been around 800 votes. People weren't counted. Please accept the truth now that you have it
This wasn't a typical goofy convention. It was a convention where no votes were taken and remotely close to properly counted. Perspective below from former Council Member and DeWayne Davis supporter Robert Lilligren:
As someone who has argued we need to end caucuses and conventions for a long time I have to ask: if you were trying to reduce confidence in the Minneapolis DFL and fracture the party, how would you have run the convention yesterday any differently?
I don’t know how many delegates were on the floor when the vote was taken. That’s why, in normal proceedings, you get a credentials committee report before votes. But if there actually is a big gap between delegates and votes received it’s a REALLY BIG PROBLEM
The idea that less than 600 votes were cast in a room w/several hundred more delegates (not even including alternates). The Minneapolis DFL knows their system screwed up -- they're ditching it to do paper ballots -- but is moving forward anyway. It's not hard to figure out why.
Minneapolis is producing 8.5 times more deeply affordable housing than when I took office. Affordable housing is a basic necessity. We've pushed for it relentlessly since day one, and we're not slowing down. Let's keep building the homes Minneapolis residents need and deserve.
Calling council members DSA-aligned is hateful rhetoric but posing in front of a poster of the Jewish Mayor with a Hitler mustache isn't? Help me understand that.