State DFL rules committee wades into Minneapolis mayoral convention fight
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... A chaotic Minneapolis party convention made national news when it endorsed Omar Fateh. Dozens of complaints are now questioning how it all went down.

Mayoral candidate Omar Fateh and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks during the Minneapolis DFL convention at Target Center July 19. (Rebecca Villagracia/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The vote tallies didn't seem to add up, the ballots were missing needed language, and a woman who had been the subject of numerous complaints for allegedly skirting political rules somehow was placed in charge of counting the vote.

The things that took place during the Minneapolis DFL's mayoral convention last month spurred 98 people to sign onto numerous challenges, an extraordinary level of protest for a Minnesota convention, according to a DFL party official who will be among those to formally hear the challenges at a meeting Sunday.

"Let me put it this way: It's very, very unusual to have anywhere near that number of challenges arising out of a convention," said Tim O'Brien, a co-chair of the state DFL's Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules Committee. ...