Zachary Wefel
@zacharywefel
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Co-founder of the Minnesota Tool Library, attorney, woodworker, cook, debate/speech coach, Bridge enthusiast, 2x failed politician.
Minneapolis
Joined April 2010
RT @NickyFrank30: Will be 218-212, so even if all three Democratic vacancies were filled, it still would've passed. You can all stop blamin….
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We got high on our own supply. “Fully funding education” rings hollow when districts are facing cuts and Minneapolis Public Schools is still failing across the board.
Sure I can agree with the idea DFLers should do good things and get good headlines for it. But I mean in 2023-2024 they did that and sadly voters didn't reward the DFL with 68+ House seats.
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We should spend less money on intraparty fights in the metro and more in outstate Minnesota. I said *campaigns*, not issues!.
“Deprioritize local campaigns” was literally your first point. But ok king.
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No one said anything about prioritizing voters in other districts, I specifically said they should *partially* see their job as generating good headlines (because the second order effects help them win majorities to do more to help their constituents!).
“Hey I know you elected me to represent you, but I’m actually prioritizing voters that didn’t elect me, have never elected me, and never will elect me” is not the selling point you think it is. Please run on that and have another failed campaign.
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Representing people should include consideration of second order effects!.
I’m not arguing about decisions on who to elect w/in the Metro, and yes we obviously need to elect out state Minnesota DFLers. My gripe was to your second point. The role of any representative is to represent their constituents.
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Voters don’t distinguish between local and federal DFLers. We need to find ways to claw back the Sixth and Eighth.
Is that actually true in MN, though? The 7 County metro area is 50% of the legislature winning that plus a few urban seats in the outstate cities is a consistent majority path (we don't currently win all the metro seats but it's a good goal to work on). 1/2.
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Electing someone 10% further to the left in Minneapolis is far less important than electing any DFLer in outstate Minnesota.
It’s weird that the people who represent the area where people actually live are supposed to take a backseat to those who represent more ears of corn than humans. The heart of the DFL is the people of Minnesota, and the vast majority of Minnesotans live in the Metro area!.
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Urban DFLers underestimate the extent to which they should 1. Deprioritize local campaigns with respect to outstate campaigns; and 2. See the role of urban DFLers as, partially, generating positive headlines for the party.
The only cure for dogshit legislation, ultimately, is to win more elections.
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Diversity is a good thing but we need to be clear eyed about how we’re spending money and what we’re getting for it.
When universities hired chief diversity officers, it had no effect on the diversity of faculty or university administrator hires.
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RT @StatisticUrban: If this bears out, it's possible that 2025 is the first time the US population shrinks on net in the entire history of….
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Democratic trifectas are also fiscally responsible, if you look at debt to GDP ratios:
It’s blazingly obvious that the only times the federal government has any fiscal restraint whatsoever is when there’s a Dem president and a hostile R Congress such as in the late 1990s or early 2010s.
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RT @Wilson__Valdez: Like this is a major issue that we're faced. no news outlets will cover the real life stakes of the policy, so instead….
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RT @Wilson__Valdez: Just caught the local news (CBS) coverage of the GOP bill debate. They did not even mention the policy/stakes of it unt….
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RT @Wilson__Valdez: The media environment has never been bleaker. There is just nowhere where Average, Non-Keyed in voter can get good, acc….
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RT @charles_gaba: 🚨 REMINDER: There are 29 GOP-held House seats where they won by 12 points or less. Here's how many in each WILL either l….
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I just called @tomemmer’s to encourage him to vote against the OBBB. No matter who your rep is, call to encourage them to vote against the bill.
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RT @GovKathyHochul: New York’s seven GOP members of Congress have the power to stop the Big, Ugly Bill and keep 1.5 million New Yorkers fro….
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Blue states should criminalize knowingly hiring illegal workers and every federal raid of workers should be followed immediately by a state crackdown on the management of those companies.
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RT @HopfJames: Wisconsin's governor has signed two nuclear support bills into law. One bill would fund a $2 million nuclear plant siting s….
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