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Rybak wins DFL endorsement
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| Last Edited | Craverguy May 16, 2009 10:52pm |
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| Category | Endorsement |
| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Sunday, May 17, 2009 03:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak easily won his first DFL endorsement for the office he has held for eight years at the city party convention on Saturday.
"I've never had more energy for this job, and I have never been more confident in this city," Rybak said, concluding an eight-minute speech with a leap from the Washburn High School stage to shake hands with delegates.
Rybak won the endorsement with 75 percent support on the first ballot, with only community activist Al Flowers Jr. put in nomination against him.
"It's time for us the citizens to take the city back, to hold them accountable," said Flowers, who decried the lack of a question period for candidates and said he'd oppose Rybak in the November election. He drew only 8.8 percent support, or about half the number of delegates who opted for no endorsement, some of them supporters of erstwhile candidate Bob Miller.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much for doing this," Rybak said after the vote was tallied.
Rybak triumphed on his third endorsement try. In 2001, he blocked incumbent Sharon Sayles Belton's bid for endorsement, and in 2005 Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin blocked Rybak's bid. |
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