DFL SD 62 delegates

The chair of the SD 62 DFL, Loren Olson, emailed out the results of the elected delegates from last Saturday's convention. The delegates were elected for the 5th District Congressional Convention (where the party endorsement for the 5th CD will be considered and some delegates to the Democrat National Convention in Denver will be elected). The same individual delegates go to the state DFL convention this June in Rochester. That convention, among other things, will make an endorsement decision in the U.S. Senate race and select delegates for Denver as well.

The 28 delegates from SD 62 are broken down the following way:

• 13 of the delegates came from Al Franken subcaucuses
• 10 delegates came from Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer subcaucuses
• 4 delegates came from subcaucuses which were uncommitted for Senate
• 1 delegate came from a Mike Ciresi subcaucus

It's a strong showing for Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. Although, if Nelson-Pallmeyer is going to be competitive at the state convention in a two-way race, he probably would need to do better in his own senate district. Nelson-Pallmeyer was at the SD 62 convention during part of the subcaucusing, even trying to persuade some members of uncommitted subcaucuses that he was their man.

One thing is for certain, those five delegates from the uncommitted and Ciresi subcaucuses will have some busy phone lines pretty soon. Of course, the committed delegates will not be ignored either.