Episode 434, The Andrew Parker Show - 2025 Election Episode: Minneapolis Goes to the Polls—Socialism, Safety and What’s at Stake

Minneapolis is voting — and the stakes could not be higher. In this episode, Andrew outlines what this year’s mayoral and City Council races mean for public safety, business vitality, the tax base, housing and the future of the city — and why the influence of the Democratic Socialists of America should not be ignored.

This is not just a local contest — this election will be a signal to the rest of the country.

If you live in Minneapolis — listen, share, and vote.

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Episode 434 Transcript

Welcome to another episode of the Andrew Parker show each episode we talk politics Israel and the law And thank you very much for joining us go to the Andrew Parker show comm to subscribe Follow us leave your email there. You will you will get the next episode dropped immediately ⁓ When it is dropped and this episode I'd like to talk about an upcoming election

a critical election, certainly for the city of Minneapolis, which is at a crossroads, also for the state of Minnesota. And frankly, it may well be a harbinger for things to come across the country. New York City has an election for mayor that we have all heard about, talked about.

for many months and and it appears as though the socialist communist candidate the run mum Donnie ⁓ Will win in the heavily Jewish populated city of New York As amazing as that may seem he is openly ⁓ Anti Israel

He is openly opposed to the Jews being able to and allowed to reestablish their home in the Middle East, in the land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael.

openly opposed to it, despite the fact that the Jews are the indigenous people to that land and in fact have lived there consistently, continuously for thousands of years. ⁓ Somehow he has this belief that Palestinians own that land. They simply do not. But whether or not we want to argue over ownership,

⁓ of the land. It is the Jewish homeland.

So Mamdani is totally opposed to that. And in a similar way.

The candidate for the Democratic Socialist, with the label Democratic Socialist of America attached to him and fully supportive of their platform is Omar Fateh here in the city of Minneapolis. Some call him the mini-mum-dani.

but it is the Democratic Socialists of America which tout having some 80,000 members across the country, which if you think about it is not that many members, but.

They have become organized, very organized, and ground zero is right here in the city of Minneapolis.

as there is.

open discussion about socialism, communism taking hold. And ⁓ I'm gonna talk now for a minute about who are the democratic socialists of America? is this organization that Omar Fateh has decided to attach to his candidacy for mayor in the city of Minneapolis and almost got the DFL endorsement.

But for the corruption that occurred in counting the vote, he may well have gotten it. He proclaimed having the endorsement from the Minneapolis DFL, but that was overturned by the state DFL party, citing ⁓ inaccuracies and a number of faulty.

problems in counting the vote at the Minneapolis DFL convention a few months ago So neither he nor incumbent mayor Jacob Frye Will have the Minneapolis DFL endorsement when going to the polls In well by the time this drops probably within a day see the Minneapolis will be going

to the polls. So what is the DSA? Who is the DSA? And by the way, this is an important question, not only because Omar Fateh is running, ⁓ he's running as a Democrat, but he openly speaks of supporting the ideas, ideals of the DSA.

Democratic Socialists of America.

In addition, there are at least four members of the 13-member city council in the city of Minneapolis who openly support the Democratic Socialists of America. And there are another four members who routinely vote with the Democratic Socialists of America members, making kind of a block of seven or eight.

on the 13 member city council that push the ideals of the DSA. ⁓ There are a couple of others that are kind of swing voters that sit in the middle. And there are, I would say, presently three members who are ⁓

center of the road Democrats, liberal Democrats, that you could identify years ago as Democrats and can identify today a little bit less so as Democrats because the Democratic Party has moved so far to the left and the center of the Democratic Party is no longer where it was. And that is why many Democratic centrists

actually seek the support of the far left wing, part of the party, and do not push back and oppose it. You see it at the national level. Some crazy ideas for liberal or conservative, ⁓ crazy ideas about gender, what is and isn't oppression, about security and safety.

law enforcement, about housing, about the economy, ⁓ owning the means of production. You know, socialist communist ideas that are now much closer to the center of the Democratic Party than at any time during my lifetime at least.

So.

If we elect a city council which has majority control by the socialists, the communists here, ⁓ for four more years, it is going to have enormous repercussions.

for the ability of the city of to get out of the funk that it is in. Again, I recommend that you go see the documentary or pull it up and go see it. Pull it up, Precarious State. Go to precariousstate.com. There's a website, you can pull it down. You can go to the andrewparkershow.com. Go to the tab resources.

and you can get the documentary there as well. And it will explain where the city of Minneapolis was, where it is now, where it is heading, what the issues are and the dark.

underbelly of this city now showing itself in all of its negative.

Very negative.

aspects sadly very sadly and It is getting worse with the DSA's control of this City Council Now they've got Omar Fateh as their candidate and he wraps himself in this Although he is running as a Democrat To run against Jacob Fry now Jacob Fry and I have known each other for a long time You may recall that he there were seven

Candidates for mayor of the city of Minneapolis when he first ran before he was mayor. He was not the incumbent When he first ran and I put on an invitation to all seven of those candidates and only one showed up on the show to be interviewed and that was Jacob Fry and He won that election now. I would call that a one-to-one correlation between coming on the show and winning but some

Some may dispute that a little bit. ⁓

So Jacob, and it hasn't been helpful to him to come on the show since, so he hasn't, but ⁓ I talk to him ⁓somewhat frequently.

⁓ We don't agree on on much but he is Someone who believes in liberal policy But not crazy leftist policy and the DSA is all about leftists So

Who, what are we talking about, Democratic Socialists of America that are trying to take over this city and frankly over the last four years have been in a strong position of power.

Jacob Fry has really held them back from doing everything that they want, but it has been difficult and they have been able to do quite a bit of damage. ⁓ The DSA states that they fight for workers and against capitalism, against business. In certain ass places in their platform, they talk about the fact that

Business and owners do not have a place at the table with them They fight against ⁓ racism in all forms of oppression they say of course I would add unless the oppression is against whites or Christians or certainly If it's against Jews, they they don't fight that in fact they join in

sort of oppression, hard to actually say with a straight face that Jews have not been oppressed or over the millennia have not suffered from enormous. ⁓

repercussions of hate against the Jewish people.

And it's happening every day now in this country and in Europe, it's even worse. So talk about being oppressed, a few if any, as oppressed. But that's not included in this group's oppression category. They believe in communist ideals and they believe in the

means of production being owned by the collective, ⁓ energy policy being driven by the collective, and transportation policy, as well as housing, certainly. ⁓ They talk about ⁓ tenants and organizing tenants, and owners of property, landlords have no place at the table to discuss policy.

It should just be ⁓ tenants.

They believe in single payer healthcare for all. They believe openly in defunding the police, openly in a Green New Deal, openly in trans rights, openly with ⁓ rent control and in fact removing the ownership ⁓ from individual property owners.

and giving it back to the people. Free housing for all, live where we want, when we want, and how we want. That is a slogan they use in the DSA. Basic income for all.

So what does that look like? Well, I will tell you, the first thing that it looks like is business owners will not stay in a market where these sorts of rules are being applied.

Why is that? Well, because they can go to many other markets where they can actually make a living.

And so they're not going to stay in this market. When business owners leave, the tax base gets hollowed out. And when the tax base gets hollowed out, there are no services that are being provided.

including safety and security services.

So that's the first thing that happens, the tax base gets...

gets hollowed out. ⁓ Secondly, when business leaves because they are being treated as these communists are suggesting, ⁓ and there is no private ownership of property, when businesses leave, people become unemployed. And they're out of their job because their owner left.

And so they don't have a place to go to work. They don't have a ⁓ pay stub. They don't have a deposit into their account. So they have no money. And then when they go out and look for other employment, which a burgeoning market would allow, but that's capitalism, they don't want that. When they go look for another, there isn't another job for them.

So they're sitting around and now they can't pay rent. And so they become a squatter. So we get a city full of squatters with a hollowed out tax base. That's what we get. And pretty soon you have boarded up buildings.

And you have,

Chainlink locks on businesses that used to be thriving. If you walk downtown Minneapolis, you can see that a bit today, and in uptown, it's even worse.

But you don't have to take my word for it. Just look at the history of the city of St. Louis. It's what they did there. Or how about Detroit? Now Detroit had some pressures beyond Democratic Socialists of America taking over the city and destroying the city. They had the effects.

of business shutting down because of external impacts on those businesses. But that's what happens when businesses shut down or are treated in this fashion. And then when you add to that,

You know this unemployment? ⁓ Hollered out tax base shuttered businesses businesses leaving when you add to that Because it's good. This is a major pressure on people now And what happens when there's that major pressure well crime rates go up And what these people want to do the Democratic Socialism of America is defund the police right at the time

When the pressure for crime rates is just going through the roof, crime is getting more violent and worse, they wanted to fund the police, those that enforce our laws and protect us more so. Neighborhoods, protection. they say they're gonna replace the police with these other, you know what, social workers and neighbors taking care of one another.

Yeah, against these gangs. And that's where kids will turn. They'll turn to the gangs when they've lost their job and they can't possibly find another because there aren't any. We're in a crossroads.

That's where we're at. And by the way, housing, it'll get way worse. Nobody's got any money to pay for the rent. you know, Democratic Socialists of America say, well, there won't be rent. Everyone can just live for free. Well, that'll be good. Live for free. The owners got no income. Or maybe there isn't an owner. Maybe all the tenants own the property. Because at the end of the day, that's the communist ideal.

So what happens when all the tenants own the property? Do you think the property might get run down? Nobody has any money to put into the property? Something breaks, it doesn't get fixed? Pretty soon it's complete slump with a blight on the neighborhood. That's what the Democratic Socialists of America stand for. And these people are getting elected. Lastly, and as you know,

very importantly to me and it should be to all of you.

Philosophically, Judeo-Christian values in this country are the foundational element to the founding of this country.

And it is based on those ideals that people came together for the American experiment, leaving behind the old world, Europe, Britain.

come here for a better life based on those fundamental values. Who else in the world stands by those and cherishes them and holds them tight and will defend them to the end? The state of Israel.

Very few others, but the state of Israel does. That's why it is the greatest, single greatest, without exception, ally to the United States anywhere in the world. I'm speaking now to Tucker Carlson, who says, what does Israel do for us?

Are you a moron? You're not. You're smart. So you must have some other reason that you're saying things that are so easily answered.

You take for granted?

A country that stands by the same fundamental principles that we do and you would just cast them aside?

a huge air in addition to all the other things that Israel does for the United States that either go unnoticed or go with notice.

but are not viewed as important as they really should be.

such as the military capability of Israel, yes, in part supported by the United States, no doubt, but Israel becomes the laboratory for whether these things work or don't work. And they suffer the consequences. We don't have to. We are now ready and able to employ because we have seen what is in real warfare happening with our weaponry.

that is being used by the Israelis and how they go about using it. Huge advantage. But it goes well beyond that. Medical inventions, both in military and in warfare, but also in civilian life that has come out of the state of Israel for the betterment and saving lives here in the United States.

all the other innovations as well. But most importantly by far, the values. Why do I have that little digression? Because the DSA in its platform, believe it or not, says,

Any DSA member who believes that Israel should exist has committed an expellable offense. Now that's not a quote, but effectively that is their statement.

And it gets worse. Here is actually what, you know, they took down off of their website, but it is what was passed by the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America that Omar Fateh wraps himself in and that several council members that I'll go over in a little bit when I explain who's running and who we need to be voting for because we are at a crossroads.

This city could be destroyed if some of these crackpot lunatics, really, I mean, it is so destructive. If the Ilhan Omar supporters control the city of Minneapolis as they have while we have watched it go from a beautiful city with so much to offer so many to

a destroyed city.

Sirens every night. I Hear them. I live in the city. I work in the city. I have lived in the city Minneapolis or Its first-ring suburbs as was mentioned a previous show recently My entire life and I've worked professionally during my entire professional life in the city of Minneapolis

I know what I speak and it is a disaster and a shame what is happening with this city council and what they're allowing.

Jacob Fry is fighting as hard as he can.

the electorate has to wake up. right, ⁓ expelling any member who believes that Israel should exist. Yeah.

Now doesn't say that verbatim, but here is what it did say, and now they've taken it down, but it's still ⁓ their platform, their resolution. Be it resolved, all Twin City DSA members who are credibly shown to have proclaimed that they are a Zionist and intend on advancing the interests of the Zionist settler colony, or,

are a member of or have consciously provided material aid to any Zionist organization. And it goes on and lists a bunch of other organizations, including Christians United for Israel, the Anti-Defamation League, any Zionist lobby group like AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, anyone who supports any of those. Even if you support J Street, which is a far left organization,

that is not even pro-Israel, you still will be removed. Or if you have consistently and publicly opposed BDS as a legitimate form of struggle, BDS being Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement, which is intended to destroy the state of Israel, the stated intent of it, if you do anything to oppose BDS, you will be considered.

If you do any of these things, you will be considered in substantial disagreement with DSA principles and policies and bylaws, thereby committing an expellable offense.

But religious membership, spiritual interactions within houses of worship or religious educational institutions that have relationships with Zionist organizations are

not necessarily considered endorsements of Zionism. So Zionism, what is Zionism? Some of you may not have ever understood that term, and now when you hear it, it is so vilified that you think it's a negative term. Well, I'll tell you, it is not. It never has been. I grew up as a staunch, unapologetic Zionist.

I continued to be such. However, now if I talk publicly about it, I could just as easily get stones thrown at me as get cheers, which is crazy.

Zionism.

is the belief in a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people. That's what it is.

And that Jewish homeland for the Jewish people is the homeland that the Jewish people have lived in continuously for thousands of years. And that they, by international law, have a right to.

Now, the DSA ⁓ resolution platform goes on to say, effectively, well, in addition to effectively saying, any member who believes that Israel should exist has committed an expellable offense and will be expelled. I mean, they are open about it.

But it goes on to say, members expelled on these grounds may be reconsidered for membership reinstatement, provided they write a statement to membership that one, demonstrates a basic understanding of Palestinian issues and Zionism. A basic, well that would be interesting if I wrote it, they would receive it.

and say, we're not only ostracizing you from the group, but we will be having a hanging out in the back ⁓ at midnight tonight.

I of course jest.

But if you write a statement demonstrating a basic understanding of Palestinian issues and Zionism, what is the basic understanding? That Jews are the indigenous people of the land of Israel? That Israel is the only democratic state in the entire Middle East? And the Palestinians certainly don't have that? That Palestinians are being murdered left and right by Hamas, the organization that the DSA supports?

Which basic understanding are we talking about? That the Palestinians and the Jews were each offered their own homeland by the world at the UN back in the late 1940s and the Jews accepted it even though it was a fraction, near fingernail of the land that the Jews had every right to. They accepted it.

And the Palestinians refused and launched war, which they have been at with Israel and continued for 80 years.

Is that the basic understanding?

Which other basic understanding are we needing? What is it that ⁓ Jews offered Palestinians to come back into ⁓ the land and live side by side with them in peace? That they've offered five different peace deals where if they don't want to live in Israel with the Jews,

that they can have their own land, their own country, and live side by side in peace and they've rejected it every single time because that is not what they're interested in.

Is that the basic understanding?

Boy, it's tough, and by the way, no Jews are welcome in any Arab country, nor to live side by side with Palestinians, nor ⁓ to live in Gaza after the Jews all left, nor to live in the West Bank with Palestinians. Although there are many Jews that do live in the West Bank, but if there were a country, one of the terms that,

Has always been demanded and required is that no Jews will live there by the Palestinians

It's completely the opposite with Israel, the place that the DSA people and so many others on the far left claim is apartheid, which is the biggest... ⁓

you know, wrongful statement, false fabrication, blood libel against the Jews. It couldn't be any further from being apartheid in the state of Israel in which Arabs sit in the Knesset on the Supreme Court. Palestinians have the right to vote if they're citizens of Israel, just like any other country, a democratic country.

where if you're a citizen you can vote.

Yeah, is that the basic understanding of Palestinian issues and Zionism? Or that the Palestinians have launched war upon war upon war against Israel? When the hand of peace has been extended by Israel time and time again? The second thing that you have to do in addition to writing a statement to get back into good graces with the DSA, you have to write a statement.

Demonstrating a basic understanding of Palestinian issues and Zionism and the second thing is apologize for past anti Solidaristic behaviors with a commitment to putting a new anti-zionist principles into practice Then you can get back in you hate the Jews enough You can get back in that's the DSA that is who Omar Fateh

⁓ wraps himself in. That is who a number of members of the Minneapolis City Council, total of 13, a number of the members of those 13 ⁓ support that sort of platform. It's shocking, isn't it?

You don't think we're at a crossroads? We're at a crossroads. Let's talk about that city council now for a minute. First, I've mentioned the mini Mom Donnie, and by the way, Mom Donnie believes this trash too.

That's what his attitudes are on Israel. Maybe not down to the letter, but in general speaking.

And Fateh is what? A mini-mandani.

So let's take a look at the makeup of the 13 ⁓ council members. They each represent a ward. There are 13 wards in the city of Minneapolis. ⁓ And just to give you an idea, the 13 members elect their leadership, a president and a vice president of the city council. So these 13 members get to cast their vote.

for the leadership when they start a new, we'll call it session.

And.

⁓ they did that.

And they voted for President Elliot Payne Ward 1 Councilmember and Aisha Chugtai.

Chuck Ty in particular wraps herself in the Democratic Socialists of America. Now she identifies as a DFL member, all of them ⁓ do. Robin Wansley of the second ward identifies openly as a Democratic Socialists of America candidate. I mean, who would do that? She does. And she fully supports those anti-Israel ⁓ issues. She is an open anti-Semite.

She'll dispute that. there's no, yeah, mean, know. ⁓ Destruction of Zionism, destruction of the state of Israel, no homeland for the Jewish people. And Jews have caused oppression. Not the oppressed, they're not the oppressed, no. ⁓ Caused oppression across the world. ⁓ Robin Wansley, second ward. But there are really,

Four who are openly DSA, I would say is my opinion. Robin Wansley, Jason Chavez, who was, I believe, campaign manager for Ilhan Omar in the past. You know of Ilhan Omar, I'm sure. ⁓ So you got Jason Chavez, you got Robin Wansley, have Arun Chaudhary. ⁓

Also ⁓ And then you have the vice president of the council Aisha chug tie so chug tie is quite openly supportive of the DSA in my opinion and ⁓ Elliot pain who is the president she is the vice president I should chug tie Elliot pain who is the president?

generally votes with the DSA.

So you got these four, you know, the two leaders vote with these sorts of ideas. They were elected by the members on the city council, so that kind of tells you that there's a majority that support that platform. There are four of them that are openly DSA, and then there are four others who,

A very large percentage of the time votes with those DSA members on far left positions.

So the current city council, unless we turn it around, and it can't be just the reelection of the same members to turn it around. To turn it around, we have to defeat incumbents. Now there's gonna be one open seat, a couple I say. But we need to change the members on the city council in order to turn this ship.

There are, just kind of as an overview, there are three members of the city council that are, I would call them, DFL traditionalists. They're liberal. The entire city council is very liberal. Jacob Fry is very liberal. ⁓ But I would call them traditional DFL, understand that there is a place for business, and in fact,

Driving a strong market economy in the city of Minneapolis is good for those who are most disadvantaged and for the poor.

It's good for them because it raises all boats. It provides more jobs. It provides a DAC space that can provide services.

And it allows not only for less unemployment and more jobs, but a better salary, better pay. That's what a strong economy and a strong market economy does. And even these liberal Democrats get that. So there are three of them who are on the 13 member city council now. I would say Michael Rainville, he's my city council member.

and ⁓ from the Barb Johnson, Alice Rainville family.

two council members from decades ago and more recently ⁓ who really were some of the best council members ever to sit in the city of city council. Michael Rainville, Latricia V. Tau, they're in wards three and four and Linnea Palmisamo in.

⁓ Ward 13 so those three Are not going to be voting with the DSA. No, they won't be But those other eight four of them kind of openly DSA supporters and four of them who often vote with the DSA ⁓ Elliot Payne Katie Cashman Emily Koski

⁓ And Jeremiah Allison who's not running again, so there will be an open seat those four along with the four I mentioned previously Wansley Chavez chug time Chaudry are

⁓ They make up a block. So that's eight who generally vote together, three who generally oppose, that's 11, and the other two who are kind of swinging back and forth are Jamal Osman in the Cedar Riverside area over in Ward 6, and Andrea Jenkins of Ward 8, who kind of swing back.

So let me just mention the names of those who can bolster and can create potentially a majority on the city council to push back against the crazy ideology that is being foisted upon us here in the city. ⁓ And to join Rainville, Vitao, and Palmasamo.

So against Elliot Payne, Brian Strand is ⁓ running. Against Robin Wansley, Shelley Medor is running. These are solid candidates. Now listen, they're not Republican, they're not conservative, they're liberal and that's what's going to win in the city of Minneapolis, but they are not communists. They are not democratic socialists of America.

Israel hating anti-Zionists. They are not.

⁓ So those two and then in Jeremiah Ellison's seat, ⁓ Pearl Warren ⁓ is running. Now they're also running a far left candidate up there and you know, it's a seat that could be flipped. ⁓ In Katie Cashman's ward and she usually votes with the far left to be very clear.

Elizabeth Schaeffer is running and that's around the lakes area ⁓ And Schaeffer is a strong candidate running Andrea Jack Jenkins who more often too often ⁓ votes Far far left Josh The seus is running and he's running a very strong campaign against ⁓ Jenkins Against Jason Chavez Dan Orban is running

Chavez again, DSA guy, very close to Ilhan Omar. Aisha Chugtai, one of the, in my judgment, worst on the city council. She is the vice president of the city council. Ward 10, Lydia Millard is running against her. That's a long lake street there.

⁓ that ward. Emily Koski, like Katie Cashman.

votes often with the far left. Jameson Whiting is running there, and against Chaudry, Becca Thompson is running. So that gives you kind of the endorsed candidates of the more middle of the road. ⁓

identifies where the far left candidates are to see whether.

We can jointly save our city.

We had on the show not long ago, Jim Rubin, who is a business owner in the city of Minneapolis, owns a number of real estate properties, apartment, multi-family dwellings in the city, in the inner city, that are ⁓ to provide housing for low and middle income individuals and families.

It's a critical element of a healthy, vibrant community. And it's being destroyed, as he talked about. He can't stay in business. And it's from the hollowing out of the city, from the regulation, from the overtaxing.

⁓ but ⁓ also from many of the ideas the democratic socialists have.

We need to turn it around. And we need to do it now. Everyone needs to go out and vote if you are able and eligible, I should say, ⁓ to do so in the city of Minneapolis.

I strongly suggest you do.

and send us ⁓ a text or an email. Go to theandrewparkershow.com. Give us your email. Send us an email. If you're wondering, should I vote for? I live in Ward X.

We're happy to help and give you a sense of that. You can text as well at 952-522-2818. The election is now upon us. Let's save what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the United States, a place so near and dear to my heart.

have enjoyed it so much and now it has really changed, ⁓ changed for the worst. And if we can create an environment with neighborhoods and communities of people working together to have a strong marketplace business environment so that everybody can rise up and have

affordable, livable community where law and order is important, enforcement is supported, our police and fire are supported, our housing market is strong, our employment numbers are high. These are all things that

really create a wonderful place to live. Go out and vote.

Vote against socialism and communism vote for free markets and liberal ideals ⁓ that Jacob Fry stands for and so many of the City Council members that I mentioned stand for ⁓ And give us call or text us if you need background on any of that information until next time Be kind to your neighbor