'The Strobe Lights Need to Be Turned Off': An Educational, Patience-Testing Weekend with DFL Politicians and Party Activists

Sources: Sen. Amy Klobuchar threatened to leave DFL convention during challenge from left

While backstage at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention Friday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar loudly declared her frustration and said she was going to abandon the convention after delegates nominated a 26-year-old progressive activist as an alternative to Klobuchar for Minnesota governor, according…

'The strobe lights need to be turned off': An educational, patience-testing weekend with DFL politicians and party activists

“Wonderful, it moved me, I felt it.” So said Laura Turman, a delegate at the DFL state convention in Rochester, about the Friday evening performance of Kobey Layne, a 26-year-old who got enough delegate support to give a 15-minute speech on why she, and not Amy Klobuchar, should get the party’s endorsement for governor. Too green to understand that a politician’s No. 1 priority is to not say anything they may later regret, Layne was all jittery …