Tomorrow on Saturday (5/11/24), the Minnesota Democrats in CD5 will be meeting for their 2024 Endorsing Convention. This is expected to be a highly competitive process for the Democratic Party’s Endorsement as incumbent Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing off in a rematch with former Minneapolis City Councilman Don Samuels, who will be 75 years old in a few days. 

Criminal defense attorney Sarah Gad and National Guard recruiter/small business owner Tim Peterson are also running for the Democrat Endorsement. This Endorsing Convention comes after the MNGOP’s CD5 convention on April 28th. That event was held on a Sunday, which likely angered Christians and conservatives. Known anti-Trump RINO Dalia al-Aqidi was endorsed by acclimation, raising suspicions how she will run her campaign since she will share the GOP ballot line with President Trump.

In 2022, Ilhan defeated Don Samuels for the party Endorsement and narrowly won the primary by a vote of 50.3% to 48.2%. Three other candidates received the remaining votes in that primary. This highly anticipated rematch will be flooded with outside money and special interest groups with ridiculous commercials and ads. After such a close call in 2022, AIPAC is now looking to target Ilhan’s campaign and take her out in the primary.

The CD5 Democrat convention rules have appeared on their website and there are some very radical provisions! Included in their rules package are plans to force lower-ranked alternates based on gender identity! It further states that individuals who do not identify as male or female will not be counted as either! These rules will allow transgenders to be seated en mass over normal people! See woke rules 8, 16, and 42E below:

Not only is this woke garbage, but it is flagrantly a violation of the delegate process that people undertook starting at the precinct caucuses. Imagine you are an alternate who is just about to be sat on the floor, only to be stopped so a lower-ranked alternate, cross-dresser/transgender/non-binary can take your spot! In practice, does this mean that alternate #52 can be seated before alternate #1 from a BPOU simply because of their "gender identity"? According to Democrats, someone with gender dysphoria and their vote should be valued more than anyone else’s! There may be a severe clash of cultures in the event that Muslim Democrats fight this rule. 

This should be a violation of law, but Minnesota, like many other states, does nothing to protect the integrity of party conventions and endorsements. Our State Constitution and related statutes do not adequately protect citizens from corrupt political party proceedings. For far too long, political parties can get away with all kinds of scams and ways to rig results in their favor. It is time that corrupt political parties are held to account!