Sources: Klobuchar Threatened to Leave DFL Convention During Challenge From Left

Sources: Klobuchar threatened to leave DFL convention during challenge from left

ROCHESTER, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) – While backstage at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention Friday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar loudly declared her frustration and said she was going to abandon the convention after delegates nominated a 26-year-old progressive activist as an alternative to Klobuchar for Minnesota governor, according to two people who overheard the senator’s remarks. The two DFL activists were granted anonymity because they we…

Sources: Sen. Amy Klobuchar threatened to leave DFL convention during challenge from left

While backstage at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention Friday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar loudly declared her frustration and said she was going to abandon the convention after delegates nominated a 26-year-old progressive activist as an alternative to Klobuchar for Minnesota governor, according…

'The strobe lights need to be turned off': An educational, patience-testing weekend with DFL politicians and party activists

“Wonderful, it moved me, I felt it.” So said Laura Turman, a delegate at the DFL state convention in Rochester, about the Friday evening performance of Kobey Layne, a 26-year-old who got enough delegate support to give a 15-minute speech on why she, and not Amy Klobuchar, should get the party’s endorsement for governor. Too green to understand that a politician’s No. 1 priority is to not say anything they may later regret, Layne was all jittery …