Tag Archives: TakeAction Minnesota
Our MN Future: Powerful Conventions Training
Posted February 21, 2018
Join TakeAction Minnesota and partners from Our Minnesota Future organizations and learn and strategize how to show up powerfully in upcoming political conventions. Together, we’ll prepare for conventions by unpacking our roles as delegates, naming opportunities and challenges together, and practice building the political system we want and need.
Why Minnesota’s caucuses are so important this year
Posted February 5, 2018
“It was 16 degrees outside — and three days before the city was to host Super Bowl 52 — but on a recent Thursday night in Minneapolis, two dozen people still battled traffic and packed into a community room in the Temple Israel in Uptown.
The event had nothing to do with football, but it was a pregame of sorts. “Is anybody here training to go to their first caucus ever?” Carin Mrotz, director of Jewish Community Action, asked the group. More than half the hands in the room shot up into the air.
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To help explain the caucus process, organizers of the training, which included Take Action Minnesota, handed out a 10-page packet with answers to frequently asked questions. There are plenty of things caucus-goers need to remember about the process.” Read more… Continue reading »
Pro-business Minnesota Jobs Coalition dumped $140,000 into Minneapolis campaign before city election
Posted February 1, 2018
“The pro-business political committee Minnesota Jobs Coalition dumped $140,000 into a Minneapolis fund set up to elect a more business-friendly City Council, but it did so too late to be included in pre-election campaign finance reports.
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Local progressive organizations, led by TakeAction Minnesota, tried to raise concerns about outside business money coming into the Minneapolis election. Because the Jobs Coalition has in the past received money from national conservative funders the Koch Brothers, TakeAction alleged that they were trying to buy the City Council. The Jobs Coalition is already a target of progressive groups because it was active in helping turn the state Legislature over to the Republicans. Ironically, one of its strategies was to link Democrats from Greater Minnesota to Minneapolis DFLers.” Read More… Continue reading »
