Minnesota for Sale: the future’s not working
With the usual long list of caveats, I’ve updated the money flowing into Minnesota elections in this odd-year, off-year of 2025. The top 25 donors (or so):
In total, I’ve tracked more than $6 million coming from about 165 donors.
I’m also tracking two special-purpose entities, formed just this month, to funnel campaign cash on behalf of the leading challengers for mayor of the state’s two largest citie
Kaohly Her is challenging the incumbent mayor of St. Paul. The newly-formed Saint Paul Future Forward has raised $65,000 so far, mostly in union money,
To the west, in Minneapolis, Working Peoples Project was created to funnel out-of-state cash to back state Sen. Omar Fateh’s challenge against the two-term incumbent. Here’s the haul so far,
The most interesting Fateh donation may be the most recent one received. The Project reports receiving $10,000 on October 30 from a Super PAC called the Unity and Justice Fund.
Who is Unity & Justice? You won’t figure anything out from reading their website. From the New York Post, writing about donors to the Zohran Mamdani campaign in New York City,
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, via its “Unity & Justice Fund,” directed a full $100,000 into Mamdani campaign coffers.
CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the notorious 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial; five Holy Land Foundation leaders were convicted of giving Hamas more than $12 million, and were sentenced to decades in prison.
The election is Tuesday.