CD5 DFL Endorsing Convention and end of MN Legislative Session eight days later

CD5 DFL Endorsing Convention, May 11, South High School Having not succeeded in becoming a delegate to my CD convention, I attended on a guest pass to “cover” it. I put that in quotes, because it’s not my forte to do straight coverage, nor rabble-rousing opinion pieces (maybe about child slavery, but not about things like DFL shenanigans) nor stiff-upper-lip “political analysis.” No, I “cover” political events like a storyteller, like a wide-eyed novice even when I’m not. Sort of like the color commentary in sports reporting.

I arrived at about 11:30 am. I brought a little bit of food, a lot of water, and a fully charged Pixel phone with a great camera. And settled in for the ride. I’m not going to give you a blow by blow of all the things, boring, interesting, and frankly unfathomable, that happened on the convention floor leading up to the beginning of the endorsement process some time after 4:00 pm. I’ll just say I kept losing water bottles and having to get more, that I spent two or three breaks in the Ilhan Omar hospitality suite, and that in the midst of one of these breaks, I realized I didn’t have my phone. I panicked about it, but when I finally got back to the seat I had been in, on the edge of the delegates floor, but sort of halfway out of it, it was right there on the seat. Kind of briefly…