Minneapolis DFL chair gets restraining order against DFL city council candidate

[RandySF]

The chair of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor party has been granted a temporary restraining order against Minneapolis City Council candidate Victor Martinez.

Minneapolis DFL chair Briana Rose Lee, a volunteer who is planning the caucuses and conventions for the 13-ward City Council election, was granted the harassment restraining order on Monday. A judge ordered Martinez not to have any contact with Lee, and to stay at least one-fourth of a mile from her home for two years.

The move comes one week after the Minneapolis DFL Executive Committee voted not to accept hundreds of delegate signups for Martinez because of suspected malfeasance. Martinez’s campaign signed up 358 out of 514 of his delegates using the same IP address, and could not validate them with paper signup forms, saying the forms had been thrown out.

Martinez, an Assembly of God pastor who opposes abortion rights and was endorsed by the Minneapolis police union, is seeking the DFL endorsement over Ward 5’s progressive City Council Member Jeremiah Ellison.


https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/04/05/minneapolis-dfl-chair-gets-restraining-order-against-dfl-city-council-candidate/

[progree]

1. Sounds like a Republican running as a DFLer because Republicans can't get elected to Minneapolis

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anything at any level

Martinez, an Assembly of God pastor who opposes abortion rights and was endorsed by the Minneapolis police union,

... [Minneapolis DFL chair Briana Rose Lee] Lee said he emailed supporters and publicized her phone number and email so they would call and harass her over a decision she made that he didn’t like. She wrote that she received about 40 angry voicemails and numerous emails.

One of Martinez’s supporters threatened her on Facebook, saying he picked out a coffin for her and posted blueprints of her friend’s house on Twitter, Lee alleged in her restraining order request.

From the Sahan Journal,

In June, Wedge Live! tweeted that Martinez had voted for a Republican candidate during the 2020 primary, after the site looked at voter data shared with the DFL party. The candidates on the ballots were Donald Trump, Bill Weld, and Rocky De La Fuente.

It's not unusual for true Democrats to vote in a Republican primary in races where its not close on the Democratic side but is close on the Republican side (usually with the purpose of voting for the Republican that is expected to do worse in the general election). But this one was just the opposite -- Minnesota was part of the big 15-state Super-Tuesday showdown between Bernie Sanders and Biden when that race was still a tossup. Whereas nobody had a chance against Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. Although maybe Martinez is just a ring-a-ding-dong. Or both.

[mn9driver]

2. An Assembly of God pastor?

Not a democrat in any way whatsoever. Also not actually a Christian.

[Celerity]

3. He absolutely is a christian.

It's a classic 'No true Scotman' fallacy to claim he is not a christian. Many people try and claim that people are not an authentic or true member of a group the person making the claim is also a member of.

They don't like some of the beliefs or actions of others, so they use the appeal to purity (aka 'No true Scotsman') logical fallacy to try and exclude them and save face for their group.

By far the most I see it used here on DU is for this situation. One christian (or at least a christian apologist) trying to exclude another christian or christians who they see as putting the religion in a bad light.

Untold millions have died throughout human history fighting over who worships and/or represents their particular mutual sky being correctly (as well as whose god or gods is the right one, when they do not believe in the same god or gods). The 3 main Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity, Judaism) are some of the worst for this, especially the first two.

It's one of the chief tragedies of the belief in a god or gods. To believe in a god or gods one has to employ a wilful suspension of disbelief. That unleashing of magical thinking leads to the acceptance of all sorts of horrors, miseries, sorrows, pain, and death, as long as they are done or come about due to belief in the correct and acceptable god or gods.