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Frey Spokesman Feeds Lines to Alpha News
When news broke that the Minnesota state DFL’s Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules Committee had revoked Sen. Omar Fateh’s nomination for mayor of Minneapolis, saying the July convention held by the Minneapolis DFL relied upon a “flawed electronic voting system,” everyone seemed to have something to say. There was outrage from Fateh supporters and others on the left, smug I-told-you-so-isms from Frey supporters and establishment Dems.
And maybe some of the immediate takes were a few degrees too hot. Frey campaign spokesman Darwin Forsyth tweeted that the report was “more damning than we could have possibly imagined” (settle down, Obi-Wan). His conclusion: “This wasn’t an error. This was brazen cheating.”
Forsyth has since deleted that tweet, which we will all-too-graciously call inaccurate because we can’t prove intent. In a later tweet, he said “misconduct” would have been a better word to use. We won’t get into that debate.
Because before Forsyth deleted, “brazen cheating” had taken on a life of its own in the sewers of right-wing social media. Alpha News, Charlie Kirk, Dustin Grage, and many X accounts belonging to the most resentful and terminally online divorced dads of greater Minnesota have all quoted Forsyth…