This news is quite local and specific to #Minneapolis...we just want everyone to be able to see how dirty and racist the liberal (conservative)-dominated Democratic city government is where our editorial collective is based.
From a comrade:
"Absolutely breathtaking scam by the city council today. They voted 6-4 not to advance #RentControl to the legislative committee by rescheduling the vote for a major Muslim holiday. All three Muslim councilmembers were absent for the holiday and all three support the ordinance, it would have passed 7-6 otherwise"
Ratfuckers!
It bears repeating that the #Minneapolis city council president is a #Black #trans woman who in her first campaign for council specifically ran on a housing justice platform. In the meantime, she navigated the political turmoil after the #MPD murdered #GeorgeFloyd by joining the reactionary backlash against the #Defund movement (such as it was) because it had hurt her feelings by challenging her commitment to racial justice. She ran for re-election in 2021 on a cop- and capital-friendly law-and-order platform (and is doing so again this year).
Fuck #AndreaJenkins. This is the liberal weaponization of identity at its finest, and she made a choice to participate. Absolutely cynical and an utter embarrassment.
She could have stopped this vote but she didn't.