New accusations fly over Minneapolis DFL convention chaos
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May 18, 2023
Jeff Wheeler, Star Tribune
Minneapolis City Council candidate Nasri Warsame spoke Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at his campaign headquarters in Minneapolis days after chaos erupted at a Democratic nominating convention for a Minneapolis City Council seat.
Accusations and bad blood continued Wednesday in the wake of a weekend Minneapolis DFL Party ward convention that descended into chaos.
The campaign of Nasri Warsame - the City Council candidate whose supporters stormed the stage as incumbent Aisha Chughtai prepared to speak at the convention - went on the offensive at a news conference in which campaign officials:
Alleged a Chughtai supporter started it all.
Accused another City Council member of assault.
Claimed the convention was "rigged" from the start, and racially biased against Somalis - the result, they claimed, of DFL Socialists, most of them white, controlling the convention and violating various rules.
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