And perhaps if the current mayor was less of a belligerent authoritarian cuss, things would be better. And don't get me started on rank choice voting being an evil favoring name recognition of an incumbent. As a too-easy second or third choice.
Actually, Rybak did not exactly say things as headlined - link, the DFL caucusing is deliberately rigged against outsiders to favor inner party interest blocs; it's true it is, but he said it more politely.
So, not critical enough, but otherwise spot on.
As a Bernie progressive, the BS of it all and middle of the road dumplings ending up on ballot has turned me off to where I vote DFL because of Republican brain death, but feel cheapened and a bit unclean by it all.
And the media letting GOP voice shaping of issues to transgender immigrants, or some such while healthcare statewide sucks, and nobody can live on a minimum wage job to where it's a bad joke, the media are not helpful. That's a polite way to characterize the stretch Strib and others have to make in an Internet era.
All told, there's got to be a better way. DFL inner party stuff is so numbingly tedious, so start looking there for a better way. Don't stop there. But start there.
Get this - there even is a DFL school of "thought" that hand addressed envelopes are more personalized than mailing labels, so make-work crap happens.
Needlessly!