Omar | Jazz | DeWayne

Earlier this evening I attended a meet-and-greet with three of the candidates for Minneapolis mayor – Sen. Omar Fateh, Rev. DeWayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton.

About 50 people gathered in the beautiful backyard garden of a south Minneapolis home for this event, one which was organized and hosted by Minneapolis City Council member Aurin Chowdhury.

Fateh, Davis, and Hampton were featured as they are the three candidates that Chowdhury is encouraging people to vote for in the rank-choice manner that November's election allows. My own ranking of the three serves as the title for this post.

All three are excellent candidates, and Minneapolis couldn’t go wrong with any one of them as mayor.

Yet of the three I heard from tonight, I found Sen. Fateh the most compelling. The following video helps explain why. In doing so, it makes some interestng comparisons between Fateh and the popular New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.





Related Off-site Links:
Who Is Omar Fateh? – Kate Plummer (Newsweek, July 15, 2025).
Minneapolis Gets Its Own Mamdani – Kayla Bartsch (National Review, July 15, 2025).
Omar Fateh Will Work Across the Aisle If Elected Mayor – Melody Hoffmann (Southwest Voices, April 2, 2025).

UPDATES: Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh Wants to Build a City “That Works for Everyone” – Politics Nation (MSNBC, July 27, 2025).
Why Democratic Socialists Are Winning More Seats in Recent Elections – CBS News Minnesota (July 27, 2025).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• A “Racist and Factless Meltdown” Over Omar Fateh
• The Rational National’s Take on Zohran Mamdani
• Dorothy Lennon: Quote of the Day – June 26, 2025
• What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025
• Building Solidarity on the Left
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Norman Solomon: Quote of the Day – June 16, 2025
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025
• Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour
• Democrat Talk on the Eve of Trump’s Return
• A Timely Conversation
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Election
• “A New Chapter of the Democratic Party Needs to Begin”
• The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden Administration
• My Summer of Supporting Progressive Down-Ballot Candidates (2020)

Opening image: Michael J. Bayly.