Minneapolis mayoral candidate Brenda Short is alleging racial discrimination and procedural misconduct by both the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party and its Minneapolis chapter, claiming the party has attempted to silence her candidacy and others like hers.
In a public statement, Short said she has been repeatedly disrespected by DFL leadership and deliberately denied access to resources granted to other candidates. “I believe the majority of the Minneapolis DFL voters are trying to silence the voices of our voters,” she said.
Short alleged that despite multiple attempts to contact both state and city DFL chairs, she was denied access to the party’s voter data system, an essential tool used by candidates to contact and mobilize voters. She said she was forced to obtain data from an out-of-state third-party company…