VP Candidate MN Gov.Tampon Tim Walz "Walzer Mitty"

[DougMacG]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/kamala-harris-trump-election-08-06-24/index.html



If the election significance is historic, then this man get his own topic, pending approval.   )

The cabal thinks this is the generic Milquetoast choice but don't bet on it.  The choice mostly reflects the weak bench we have long pointed out and the risks and dangers of picking one of the others.  Josh Shapiro it turns out is Jewish(!) and at one time didn't fully support the destruction of Israel.  The upcoming riots in Chicago were to be aimed at Biden's Harris' lukewarm if that support of "genocidal" Israel, the weirdest of weird in the far Left playbook.

And what about all the others on the stage when Democrats settled for Slow Joe.  29 candidates ran for President, were vetted(?), and none made the grade.  Not Sanders, not Buttigieg, not Warren, not Booker, what about Klobuchar?!

On paper, Walz is about right.  Two term Governor, served in the military (National Guard), served in Congress.  Was a school teacher before entering politics.  He's a white male, their weakest category, and she already checked all the other boxes.

She is a west coast, San Francisco liberal.  He is supposed to be a Midwest moderate, Ha!  Regional and ideological balance, NOT.

The flaws in the thinking.  Minnesota under DFL (they call the Dem party here) control is governed as a copycat of far Left California. Tim Walz wouldn't be elected here if the state was majority rural and small town.  Same people electing him here chose Ilhan Omar as Minneapolis Congresswoman and Keith Ellison as Attorney General.

Yes Minnesota is becoming a swing state, Hillary won it by two points and Trump has been polling better this year than then.  If Harris can carry she might match Walter Mondale's 1984 success:



Trump campaign was ready:
https://x.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1820813594461646961

Powerlineblog has been all over it:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/the-walz-correction.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/its-walz.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/harris-walzing-to-defeat.php

I would add, if they didn't cover it, the nation as a whole has not been quick to accept the popular politicians of the Upper Midwest.  See Mondale map above.  Hubert Humphrey lost Nixon.  Eugene McCarthy lost New Hampshire to LBJ (but shook up the race), Amy Klobuchar got no traction even in Iowa, Scott Walker (Wisconsin) went nowhere is his campaign, Doug Bergum (ND) had it all but didn't even make the veep slot, Kristi Noem (SD) imploded over a pet issue, Tom Daschle and John Thune (SD) rose high among their colleagues in the Senate but never considered viable beyond that,  Ilhan Omar has brought nothing but trouble to her party and the nation, and so on.

Must add the BBG X clips.  SO strange that while he says weird he explicitly denies the election of 2016 - just in the last few days.  Talk about tone deaf.

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Whoa, the Old Gray Hag is wasting little time attacking Walz:

NYT unloads on VP choice Tim Walz over George Floyd riots

STEVE SAILER
AUG 06, 2024

All of a sudden now that Kamala picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz, the New York Times is unleashing previously unwelcome hate facts about the George Floyd Mostly Peaceful Protests of 2020. A Midwest correspondent of the New York Times, Mitch Smith, absolutely dumps on Kamala’s Veep choice:

Walz Has Faced Criticism for His Response to George Floyd Protests

Some believe that Gov. Tim Walz should have deployed the Minnesota National Guard sooner when riots broke out following the police murder of George Floyd.

By Mitch Smith

Aug. 6, 2024, 9:39 a.m. ET

A little more than a year into Tim Walz’s first term as governor, he faced his biggest test.

His state, already in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, was suddenly in the international spotlight after a Minneapolis police officer was filmed murdering George Floyd in May 2020.

Looting, arson and violence followed, quickly overwhelming the local authorities, and some faulted Mr. Walz for not doing more and not moving faster to bring the situation under control with Minnesota National Guard troops and other state officials.

Two days after Mr. Floyd’s death, with protests in Minneapolis turning increasingly violent, the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, asked Mr. Walz to deploy the National Guard.

Hours later, the city’s police chief submitted a written request for 600 troops. But it was not until the next afternoon that Mr. Walz signed an executive order allowing the Guard to assist cities.

The timeline is that George Floyd met his perhaps not untimely (considering his drug intake and medical problems) demise on Monday, May 25.

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Nothing too much happened on Tuesday, May 26.

Wednesday, May 27, local blacks looted a Target store.


That’s when Mayor Frey requested the National Guard from Governor Walz. But he didn’t respond until the next afternoon. After all, black kids looting a big box store, even one as crucial to Minnesota as Target, is not uncommon.

On Thursday May 28 came what strikes me as The Big One in the Summer of George: rioters surrounded the Minneapolis Third Precinct, the cops abandoned their post under orders from Mayor Frey, and the rioters burned it down. I still don’t know the demographics of these rioters. My guess is that they were out-of-town white Antifa rioting enthusiasts arrived in the morning to get in on the action initiated by the black looters. But I don’t know for sure.

“It was obvious to me that he froze under pressure, under a calamity, as people’s properties were being burned down,” said State Senator Warren Limmer, a Republican who helped lead a committee that investigated the response to the unrest. He suggested that Mr. Walz’s personal sympathies toward protesters might have delayed a muscular response.

Mr. Walz, a Democrat who is said to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, has since defended his actions during those days, saying he and others in state government were acting in good faith amid unimaginable circumstances.

“I simply believe that we try to do the best we can,” Mr. Walz said recently at a news conference when asked about his response to the riots.

But critics have said that the riots grew larger and lasted longer because he did not move sooner.

Keep in mind that the NYT in 2020 preferred to call the riots "mostly peaceful protests.”

“Governor Walz had the ability and duty to use force and law enforcement to stop criminal violence, but he did not,” said a 2020 Minnesota Senate report on the riots, published at a time when Republicans controlled that chamber. “Governor Walz was not willing to do what was necessary to stop the rioting right away because he was having a philosophical debate about whether the use of force should be used to stop violence.”

Mr. Walz declined to be interviewed for this article. …

Perhaps the New York Times should have published this before Walz was chosen?

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-unloads-on-vp-choice-tim-walz

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2nd post. Looks like soldiers he served with don't hold him in high regard:


@amuse

In my experience if you want to understand someone talk to the men he served with in the military. The men who served with Tim Walz describe his service as Traitorous, fraudulent, and shameful. Read their open letter from 2019 (before he was running as Kamala Harris's vice president):


The Truth About Tim Walz
Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years.
We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first-hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of the dates and time frames are from his official discharge document and the reduction order reducing him to Master Sergeant.

On September 18th, 2001 Tim Walz reenlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard for six years.

In early 2003 he was selected to attend the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The non-resident course consists of two years of correspondence

The Truth About Tim Walz

Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years.

We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first-hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of the dates and time frames are from his official discharge document and the reduction order reducing him to Master Sergeant.

On September 18th, 2001 Tim Walz reenlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard for six years.

In early 2003 he was selected to attend the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The non-resident course consists of two years of correspondence coursework, followed by a two-week resident phase at Fort Bliss, Texas. When a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer accepts enrollment in the course, they accept three stipulations. First, they will serve for two years after graduation from the academy, or promotion to Sergeant Major or Command Sergeant Major, whichever is later. Second, if they fail the course they may be separated from the military. Third, they will complete the course or be reduced to Master Sergeant without board action. Senior Non-Commissioned Officers initial and sign a Statement of Agreement and Certification upon enrollment. The State Command Sergeant Major or Army National Guard Command Sergeant Major counsels the soldier and certifies that the senior Non-Commissioned Officer understands their responsibilities. These stipulations are put in place because the academy is a college level school, the military invests a lot of taxpayer money in the student. The military needs to ensure they will get the return on investment that the taxpayers deserve.

In late summer of 2003, First Sergeant Walz deployed with the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Italy.


The mission was to augment United States Air Force Europe Security Forces doing base security for six months. In no way were the units or Soldiers of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion replacing any units or military forces so they could deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.

After the unit's return to Minnesota in the spring of 2004, he was selected by high-level Command Sergeants Major to serve in the position of the Command Sergeant Major of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion.

On August 5th, 2004 he was photographed holding a sign at a protest outside a President Bush campaign rally in southern Minnesota.

On September 17th, 2004 he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major. The conditions had been outlined to him when he was counseled and he signed the Statement of Agreement and Certification. If the conditions are not met, the promotion is null and void, like it never happened.

In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which in

The mission was to augment United States Air Force Europe Security Forces doing base security for six months. In no way were the units or Soldiers of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion replacing any units or military forces so they could deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.

After the unit's return to Minnesota in the spring of 2004, he was selected by high-level Command Sergeants Major to serve in the position of the Command Sergeant Major of the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion.

On August 5th, 2004 he was photographed holding a sign at a protest outside a President Bush campaign rally in southern Minnesota.

On September 17th, 2004 he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major. The conditions had been outlined to him when he was counseled and he signed the Statement of Agreement and Certification. If the conditions are not met, the promotion is null and void, like it never happened.

In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position he was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq. Between the time the warning order was given and his "retirement," he told the Brigade Command Sergeant Major not to worry, that he would be going on the mission. It appears that was a lie.

On May 16th, 2005 he quit, betraying his country, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty; as many reservists have. If he had retired normally and respectfully, you would think he would have ensured his retirement documents were correctly filled out and signed, and that he would have ensured he was reduced to Master Sergeant for dropping out of the academy. Instead he slithered out the door and waited for the paperwork to catch up to him. His official retirement document states, SOLDIER NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE.


On September 10th, 2005 conditionally promoted Command Sergeant Major Walz was reduced to Master Sergeant. It took a while for the system to catch up to him as it was uncharted territory, literally no one quits in the position he was in, or drops out of the academy. Except him.

In November of 2005, while the battalion trained for war at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, it received an offer from retired Master Sergeant Walz. He offered to fundraise for the battalion’s bus trip home over Christmas that year. The same Soldiers he had abandoned just months before, trying to buy their votes.

The 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion was deployed for 22 ½ months in 2006-2007. During this time, they were restricted by Army regulations and could not speak out against a candidate for office. In November 2006 he was elected to the House of Representatives. He claims to be the highest-ranking enlisted service member ever to serve in congress. Even though he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant M

On September 10th, 2005 conditionally promoted Command Sergeant Major Walz was reduced to Master Sergeant. It took a while for the system to catch up to him as it was uncharted territory, literally no one quits in the position he was in, or drops out of the academy. Except him.

In November of 2005, while the battalion trained for war at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, it received an offer from retired Master Sergeant Walz. He offered to fundraise for the battalion’s bus trip home over Christmas that year. The same Soldiers he had abandoned just months before, trying to buy their votes.

The 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion was deployed for 22 ½ months in 2006-2007. During this time, they were restricted by Army regulations and could not speak out against a candidate for office. In November 2006 he was elected to the House of Representatives. He claims to be the highest-ranking enlisted service member ever to serve in congress. Even though he was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major less than eight months, quit before his obligations were met, and was reduced to Master Sergeant for retirement. Yes, he served at that rank, but was never qualified at that rank, and will receive retirement benefits at one rank below. You be the judge.

On November 1st, 2006, Tom Hagen, Iraq War Veteran, wrote a letter to the editor of the Winona Daily News. Here are a couple of sentences from the letter: But even more disturbing is the fact that Walz quickly retired after learning that his unit – southern Minnesota’s 1-125 FA Battalion – would be sent to Iraq. For Tim Walz to abandon his fellow soldiers and quit when they needed experienced leadership most is disheartening. It dishonors those brave American men and women who did answer their nation’s call and who continue to serve, fight and unfortunately die in harm’s way for us.

Here is part of Tim Walz’s response: After completing 20 years of service in 2001, I re-enlisted to serve our country for an additional four years following Sept. 11 and retired the year before my battalion was deployed to Iraq in order to run for Congress.

According to his official Report of Separation and Record of Service, he enlisted for six years on September 18th, 2001. However, in his response he says that he re-enlisted for four years, conveniently retiring a year before his battalion was deployed to Iraq. Even if he had re-enlisted for four years following Sept. 11, his retirement date would have been September 18th, 2005. Why then did he "retire" on May 16th, 2005, before his supposed four-year enlistment was up? And he makes it sound like he "retired" a year before his battalion deployed to Iraq; when in reality he knew when he "retired" that the battalion would be deployed to Iraq.

years following Sept. 11, his retirement date would have been September 18th, 2005. Why then did he "retire" on May 16th, 2005, before his supposed four-year enlistment was up? And he makes it sound like he "retired" a year before his battalion deployed to Iraq; when in reality he knew when he "retired" that the battalion would be deployed to Iraq.

The bottom line in all of this is gut-wrenching and sad to explain. When the nation called, he quit. He failed to complete the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. He failed to serve for two years following completion of the academy, which he dropped out of. He failed to serve two years after the conditional promotion to Command Sergeant Major. He failed to fulfill the full six years of the enlistment he signed on September 18th, 2001. He failed his country. He failed his state. He failed the Minnesota Army National Guard, the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, and his fellow Soldiers. And he failed to lead by example. On top of that


The bottom line in all of this is gut-wrenching and sad to explain. When the nation called, he quit. He failed to complete the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. He failed to serve for two years following completion of the academy, which he dropped out of. He failed to serve two years after the conditional promotion to Command Sergeant Major. He failed to fulfill the full six years of the enlistment he signed on September 18th, 2001. He failed his country. He failed his state. He failed the Minnesota Army National Guard, the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, and his fellow Soldiers. And he failed to lead by example. On top of that, he failed to uphold the seven Army Values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage.

Traitorous, fraudulent, and shameful.

Signed,

Thomas Behrends
Command Sergeant Major (Retired)
78739 320th Ave
Worthington, MN 56187
Paul Herr
Command Sergeant Major (Retired)
12435 Old Highway 169
Hibbing, MN 55746

https://x.com/amuse/status/1820846284502175868

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3rd post. Links to source material at the URL:

Who is Tim Walz? Meet Kamala Harris' Radical New Running Mate

Kamala's VP pick Tim Walz is new to the majority of the Americans. But he is every bit as radical and dangerous as Kamala Harris.

KYLE BECKER

AUG 06, 2024

Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential running mate.

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Who is Tim Walz? A Closer Look:

BLM Riots: During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, rioters looted and caused significant damage to Minneapolis. Walz hesitated to deploy the National Guard to avoid angering his political base.

Crime Rates: While crime rates declined nationally, Minnesota experienced an increase in criminal activities during Walz's tenure as governor.

State Flag Controversy: Walz supported changing Minnesota's state flag to resemble Somalia's, a move that stirred significant debate.

COVID-19 Nursing Home Scandal: Walz faced allegations of mishandling the pandemic, particularly regarding nursing homes, where many elderly residents died.

Pandemic Measures: Walz's response to the pandemic included shutting down schools, churches, and businesses, and instituting strict mask mandates.

COVID Fraud Scheme: Under his watch, Minnesota experienced the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country, with over $250 million stolen.

Budget and Taxes: Despite a $17.6 billion budget surplus, Walz raised taxes and faced accusations of mismanaging state funds.

Population Exodus: Reports indicate that many Minnesotans have been leaving the state during Walz's governorship.

LGBTQIA+ Policies: Minnesota, under Walz, has become known as a 'sanctuary' state for LGBTQIA+ individuals, with policies promoting youth transgender surgery and hormone therapy.

Education Decline: The quality of Minnesota's K-12 schools fell to its lowest point in 30 years under Walz's leadership.

Military Service Controversies: Fellow soldiers accused Walz of embellishing and selectively omitting facts about his military career, with some claiming he "quit" on them.

DUI Incident: In 1995, Walz was arrested for driving under the influence, clocked at 96 mph in a 55 mph zone.

Illegal Immigration: Tim Walz signed a law to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens, paving the way for them to unlawfully vote in elections

Gun Rights: Once endorsed by the NRA, Walz now supports tighter restrictions on gun ownership.

Political Ideology: Walz has publicly praised socialism, endorsing the radical ideology that justifies that state theft of property to “neighborliness.”

https://www.thekylebecker.com/p/who-is-tim-walz-meet-kamala-harris

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4th. And yes, I'm enjoying the godawful puns:

Paul Sperry
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DEVELOPING: Kamala VP pick Tim Walz traveled to Communist China every year from 1996 until at least 2003, after receiving special work visa from the Chinese government, and later honeymooned in China, continuing his infatuation with the Communist dictatorship ...

ETA: found more:

Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately"
@Sultanknish

Walz's student trips to China were subsidized by the Chinese government. Walz had the idea while working in the Communist country and a "friend helped contact the authorities and funding came through from the government."
This is typical Chinese Communist recruitment

Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately"
@Sultanknish

It's being reported that Tim Walz appeared at the US-China Peoples Friendship Association (USCPFA) convention.
 
The USCPFA was a Communist front group set up to aid China.

The USCPFA's founders intended to "advance the interests of Communist China and world communism."

Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately"
@Sultanknish

If someone is telling you that the smart thing to do is to accuse Gov. Walz's China connections of being proof that he's CIA not a Chinese agent...
... you know that they're looking to lose an election

[DougMacG]

After the initial Covid lockdown the Governor held a press conference I won't forget where he said how he would decide about further lockdowns.  The University of Minnesota was forming an expert group to study and report in very short order and then he would announce his decision.  All the reporters swooned at the sound of his calm and confident voice addressing the unprecedented situation, but Tom Houser of (Twin Cities) Channel 5 asked him one simple follow up question:  Will you release to the public the study that you base this decision on and he said no.

That's when he lost me.

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A steady stream indeed:

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/08/06/ron-desantis-absolutely-destroys-kamalas-running-mate-tim-walz-n4931395

[DougMacG]

The material keeps coming on Gov. Walz.  We better let up on him or he'll go the way of Eagleton.

This from Steve Moore, CTUP:

Left and Lefter

Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. He campaigned as the hard-left choice for VP, saying last week on the "White Dudes for Harris" call: "One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness."

Bernie Sanders had endorsed Walz for the VP slot, saying: "I hope very much that the vice president elects a running mate who will speak up and take on powerful corporate interests and I think Tim Walz is somebody who could do that."

He got his wish. Walz is a socialist like Bernie but without the charm. He was a lockdown artist governor who adopted a Cuomo-style must-admit nursing home policy, with more than 75 percent of first wave COVID deaths among the state's nursing home population.
https://alphanews.org/nursing-homes-coronavirus-patients/

He locked kids out of school for more than half of the 2020-21 school year - and then lied about it:


Walz's state also has the dubious honor of hosting one of the biggest COVID relief fraud schemes. 
https://unleashprosperitynow.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96&id=dcfd0de57f&e=17d44a0477

On overall spending, Walz has been a Mini-Me following the Biden-Harris model. In 2022, he passed a two-year budget that featured a 38 percent increase in spending that raised taxes by $10 billion.
https://unleashprosperitynow.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96&id=89ae8a9368&e=17d44a0477

"It was the single most reckless fiscal step taken in the modern history of Minnesota," Jim Schultz, the President of the Minnesota Private Business Council, told us.

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Nice work gents!

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More perplexing info re Walz’ China links. Got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square FFS?

https://x.com/morganortagus/status/1820953982505795877?s=61

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https://nypost.com/2024/08/06/us-news/tim-walz-embellished-military-career-for-years-dropped-from-national-guard-unit-ahead-of-iraq-deployment/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEgKrhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZgIOU9zl0_zmVQN14LOyhlMs4qAdhRaFi4Vi6OyefB7MZYPfFBjY5Qx0g_aem_1hMcP_RP556ICEwBUqWB7Q

Not able to see this one-- trusting the headline.

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‘Top Gun Democrat’ Tim Walz Cultivated Centrist Record in Washington
Representing a rural district, Harris’s running mate had an ‘A’ rating from the NRA—but also backed same-sex marriage
By Kristina Peterson
Katy Stech Ferek
Aug. 7, 2024 5:00 am ET

WASHINGTON—When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was in the House, he was the best shot among Democrats facing off in a congressional shooting competition in 2015.

His win earned him the “Top Gun Democrat” award at the annual congressional clay shooting competition, held by the bipartisan Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, of which he was the co-chair.

“I think I won one year, [and] he won one year,” recalled former Rep. Collin Peterson (D., Minn.), who said their ideological stances were aligned. “He was very much a moderate.”

Walz was considered the most liberal choice among Vice President Kamala Harris’s top candidates for a running mate, reflecting his left-leaning record since being elected governor of Minnesota in 2018. As governor, he supported universal free school meals for students, signed a law that made abortion a “fundamental right,” passed paid family and medical leave, paid sick leave and transgender-rights protections.


Walz with students in Minneapolis last year after signing into law a bill that guarantees free school meals. Photo: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune/Getty Images
Walz’s tenure in the House from 2007 until early 2019 showed a complex politician who represented a Republican-leaning district while maintaining some core Democratic positions, including support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Walz had an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association to go along with a centrist voting record and a reputation among his voters and in Washington for being focused on some of the least-partisan topics, including veterans issues and agriculture policy.

“I was running in a district that had one Democrat since 1892,” Walz said at his first rally with Harris on Tuesday, hours after she tapped him as her running mate. “I learned the art of compromise without compromising my values.”

As Minnesota’s chief executive, he has governed more to the left than some might have expected while maintaining his heartland bona fides. One weekend a few years ago, he went turkey hunting with Rep. Angie Craig (D., Minn.)—and then attended what Craig described as a gay-rights dinner with her, she recalled Tuesday evening.

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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.) said he considered Walz a good friend when the two served together in the House. For four years, the pair had offices next to each other in the Longworth House Office Building and were almost always on the same flights between Minneapolis and D.C. “He reflected his normal constituents in rural Minnesota,” Cramer said. “Now he reflects his weirdo constituents in Minneapolis and is off-the-rails radical.”

Walz, who said at the Tuesday rally that he spent his summers working on his family’s farm when he was growing up, served on the House Agriculture Committee. Former Rep. Rick Nolan (D., Minn.) remembered discussing the price of corn, wheat and other commodities with Walz.

“When you’re representing a rural area, there are few things as important,” Nolan said.

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Vice President Kamala Harris has named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. WSJ’s Ken Thomas explains what Walz brings to the Democrats’ election showdown with Donald Trump and JD Vance. Photo: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images
Walz would show up to opening day for deer and pheasant hunting, Nolan said, “which conveyed a message to rural Minnesotans that he’s one of us.” In announcing Harris’s decision to select Walz, the campaign described him as a gun owner and “avid pheasant hunter.”

Randy Kozuch, chairman of the NRA’s political-action committee, said in a statement Tuesday that Walz while in Congress “purported to be a friend of gun owners to receive their support in his rural southern Minnesota district.” Kozuch alleged that Walz later “sold out law-abiding Minnesotans and promoted a radical gun-control agenda.” Last year, Minnesota passed legislation expanding background checks for gun purchases.

In the House, Walz focused on environmental priorities on clean water and conservation, and he joined Democrats in warning about the threat that greenhouse-gas emissions could pose to the climate. But he also took some moderate policy stances on energy.

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In November 2014, Walz was one of just 31 House Democrats who voted to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which was intended to carry Canadian crude to the U.S. and was opposed by environmental groups.

He bucked his party on more overtly political matters as well. In 2012, Walz was one of 17 House Democrats to vote with nearly all Republicans to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress after he refused to produce Justice Department documents sought by Republican lawmakers investigating a bungled gun-trafficking operation called Fast and Furious.


House Agriculture Committee members Kurt Schrader, Glenn Thompson, Tim Walz and Jeff Denham in 2013. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
After spending 24 years in the National Guard, where he rose to the rank of command sergeant major, Walz frequently focused on veterans affairs on Capitol Hill, typically an area of bipartisan consensus.

He helped craft bipartisan legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law in 2015 aimed at preventing veterans’ suicides. He also worked on improving healthcare access for veterans.

In 2017, he became the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee. At the time, Phil Roe (R., Tenn.), then the committee’s chairman, lauded his election, calling him “a tireless advocate for veterans.”

Though his reputation was generally moderate, there were signs of a liberal streak. Walz backed same-sex marriage in his first run for Congress in 2006, said Craig, the first openly gay member of Congress from Minnesota. “He was one of the earliest supporters of same-sex marriage,” she said, and he did so while running for a conservative district.

John McCormick contributed to this article.

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Hard for me to understand how a veteran could support Kamala Harris.

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Our friends in the press don’t seem to care about Tim Walz’s economic record as Governor of Minnesota. But Americans might be interested since it foreshadows where a Kamala Harris-Walz Administration would take the country with their policies.

Minnesota boasts a low employment rate (2.9%), but that’s less impressive than it seems. Nearly all of its job growth under Mr. Walz has been in industries that rely on government spending. Since he entered office in January 2019, Minnesota has added a net 41,500 jobs. This includes 43,900 in healthcare and social assistance and 12,600 in government.

Private industries have lost jobs, including finance, information, professional and business services, retail, manufacturing and leisure and hospitality. Such job losses started before the pandemic but accelerated during Mr. Walz's prolonged lockdowns and have increased during the last year.

Manufacturing employment has declined by 7,500 over the past 12 months, while professional and business services have shed 22,700 jobs. This is especially notable since Mr. Walz last spring signed a giant tax increase, including a 1% surcharge on investment income over $1 million. He also reduced standard deductions for businesses such as for net operating losses.

At the same time he expanded myriad tax credits such as for rent, film production, dependent care and families. Minnesotans can even get a $150 refund for contributing to state political parties and candidates. Such tax credits shrink the tax base so much that Democrats have to keep rates high. Minnesota’s top rate is 9.85% not counting his one-percentage point surcharge—which sends the rich or retired out of state.
Households with roughly $5 billion in adjusted gross income left Minnesota between 2019 and 2022, according to the most recent IRS data. Minnesota in 2022 ranked eighth in income loss among states as a share of overall AGI, after Illinois, New York, California, New Jersey, Alaska, Maryland and Massachusetts.

Top destinations for Minnesota refugees include zero-income tax Florida, Texas and South Dakota. South Dakota’s rate of job growth has been more than four times higher than Minnesota’s since Mr. Walz took the helm. At least overtaxed and jobless Minnesotans can vote with their feet. If Ms. Harris wins, all Americans might have to live by California and Minnesota rules.

https://apple.news/AYt1SRzuVTS6zTgWYT1d6hw

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A Minnesotan Sizes Up Tim Walz

St. Paul, Minn.

Tim Walz has such a bad record as Minnesota’s governor that I was astonished when he landed on Vice President Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential shortlist. As Minnesota’s Center of the American Experiment has documented, under Mr. Walz Minnesota has become a high-crime state. Student achievement has tumbled as spending on schools has skyrocketed. Per capita gross domestic product has fallen below the national average. Minnesotans have joined residents of New York, California and Illinois in fleeing their home state.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro—also on Ms. Harris’s shortlist—made sense to me. Pennsylvania is a key state. Mr. Shapiro seems to be a man of substance and would give liberal Jews a reason to vote for Ms. Harris without a guilty conscience. As a Jewish supporter of Israel, I worried that Mr. Shapiro would give the animus throbbing in the heart of the Democratic Party cover. Indeed, that animus drove a nasty intraparty campaign against him.

But Tim Walz? I’m a conservative Republican. I don’t completely understand Democrats’ ways. As an observer of Minnesota politics, however, I understand how Mr. Walz became governor. Having served six terms in Congress from a rural district, he challenged the endorsed DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) candidate—a liberal metro-area state senator, Erin Murphy—in the 2018 DFL primary. Ms. Murphy was also challenged by another metro-area liberal, Lori Swanson, then state attorney general. With Ms. Murphy and Ms. Swanson dividing the liberal urban vote, Mr. Walz and his far-left running mate, former state Rep. Peggy Flanagan, won the primary with 41%.

On taking office in 2019, Gov. Walz was restrained by a one-seat Republican majority in the state Senate—until Covid hit in the spring of 2020. He declared a state of emergency on March 25, 2020, and ruled by decree for 15 months. He proclaimed the emergency on the basis of an allegedly sophisticated Minnesota Model projection of the virus’s course in the state. In fact, the projection reflected a weekend’s work by graduate students at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Relying on their research, Mr. Walz presented a scenario in which an estimated 74,000 Minnesotans would perish from the virus. The following week the Star Tribune reported that with the lockdown Mr. Walz ordered, 50,000 would die. Maybe it would have been preferable to address the virus through democratic means.

Having destroyed jobs and impeded life routines, including family get-togethers and church attendance, Mr. Walz finally let his one-man rule lapse on July 1, 2021. When the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center stopped counting in March 2023, the deaths of 14,870 Minnesotans were attributed to the virus. (In 2020 I successfully sued the administration for excluding me from Health Department press briefings on Covid.)

During the state of emergency, protests broke out in Minneapolis on Memorial Day 2020 following the death of George Floyd. That Thursday, rioters burned Minneapolis’s Third Precinct police station to the ground. Mr. Walz didn’t deploy the National Guard until the weekend. Riots, arson and looting throughout the Twin Cities caused about $500 million in damage.

Minnesota leads the nation in Covid fraud. Under the auspices of the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, its founder, Aimee Bock, allegedly recruited mostly young Somali men to seek reimbursement for millions of meals supposedly served to poor students and families. According to indictments handed up by a grand jury to U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, Ms. Bock and others allegedly defrauded the state and federal government of $250 million. Ms. Bock has pleaded not guilty to the fraud charges.

Among the 70 defendants charged to date, 18 have pleaded guilty. In April the first of the cases to go to trial had seven defendants; five were convicted. The remaining cases have yet to be tried. In all, the Minnesota Department of Education oversaw the payout of $250 million to reimburse fictitious meals. The nature and scale of the fraud are staggering. Mr. Walz tried to blame state district court judge John Guthmann, who in April 2021 handled a case regarding the department’s processing of applications for reimbursements. According to Mr. Walz, Judge Guthmann ordered the state to continue payouts to the alleged perpetrators of the fraud even after the state Education Department discovered it.

In September 2022, Judge Guthmann authorized a news release titled “Correcting media reports and statements by Gov. Tim Walz concerning orders issued by the court.” The release concluded: “As the public court record and Judge Guthmann’s orders make plain, Judge Guthmann never issued an order requiring the MN Department of Education to resume food reimbursement payments to FOF. The Department of Education voluntarily resumed payments and informed the court that FOF resolved the ‘serious deficiencies’ that prompted it to suspend payments temporarily. All of the MN Department of Education food reimbursement payments to FOF were made voluntarily, without any court order.”

In November 2022 Mr. Walz was elected to a second term, and the DFL won majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. In the preceding two years the state had accumulated an $18 billion budget surplus. With the DFL in full control, Mr. Walz and the Legislature have spent the $18 billion surplus on infrastructure, education and other programs that will burden the state for years. They have also raised taxes. 
Mr. Walz and his DFL colleagues have backed measures establishing Minnesota as a mecca for abortion and a “trans refuge.” The legislation prohibits enforcing out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants and extradition requests for people from other states who seek treatment that is legal in Minnesota. It also bars complying with court orders issued in other states to remove children from their parents’ custody for authorizing hormone treatment or surgery to alter sex characteristics.

Like so many Democrats who have kept up with the demands of the progressive agenda, Mr. Walz has “grown” in office. In his second term, he has been the most left-wing Minnesota governor since the socialist Floyd B. Olson (1931-36). I doubt that Mr. Walz could be elected to Congress in his old district, which is now represented by a Republican. The idea that he can appeal to voters who don’t already support Ms. Harris seems far-fetched.

Mr. Johnson is a retired Minneapolis attorney and contributor to the site Power Line.

https://apple.news/AVTCz8Y46QlODKkAxrAgOpw

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3rd post. Walz lying about his service record:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5127546/rep-tim-walz-military-service&editTime=1723064230

ETA more: https://www.dossier.today/p/stolen-valor-tim-walz-launched-political

[DougMacG]

3rd post. Walz lying about his service record:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5127546/rep-tim-walz-military-service&editTime=1723064230

ETA more: https://www.dossier.today/p/stolen-valor-tim-walz-launched-political

It's the state's valor he stole.

Walz waltzed into politics with no scrutiny because he is a Democrat in Minnesota.  The attention he is getting on this now is fantastic.  He was hired to be the attack dog but he is going to have to spend a significant amount of his time on defense.  95 in 55 drunk?  You were too young to know better?  There are 4 problems with that, unsafe speed, drunk, not young, and never faced scrutiny.

Embellished his military record, 'cause that's what war heroes do...  wait, no they don't.

Lockdowns beyond lockdowns.  We were locked out of indoor tennis when there was a quarter million cubic feet of air per player, all paid for, locked out.  As close to being outside as it gets at 20 below.
 Hey dumbsh*t, exercise is important too for warding off disease but the government can't distinguish an arena from a gym when it says one size fits all.  He kept the 'science' from the public.  Is there any higher crime?

His real downfall is the "DFL" 'trifecta'.  Everything in his political career pulled him left until he became indistinguishable from Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom. The thing with spineless politicians is they bend with the wind.  He had all the makings of being a conservative Democrat when he went to Congress, winning a relatively rural, small town district.  But he got to Washington when the Pelosi Reid Obama took over the country and his loyalty went there instead of here.  As Governor, when Dems won a (roughly) one seat legislature majority, both chambers, they ruled like that had unanimous consent.  They wrote far Left legislation copying California on everything and Walz signed it all, and now he owns it.

Instead of the balance on the ticket for they got sameness.  He comes from rural roots, was a school teacher, governed a functional common sense state?  No, it's all a head fake.  He's a San Francisco Leftist wolf in sheep's clothing, especially if you surround him with Obama's and Jeremiah Wright's hate-America adviser team.

Look at the policies stupid.  Look at the results.  Minnesota (like California) is an amazing place.  Diverse, successful economy, rich place, well educated, mostly safe, clean, etc. but all the trend lines are in the wrong direction under his leadership.  My liberal friends are leaving in retirement in droves.  Vote for the high taxes all your life and go to Florida, Arizona, Texas for 6 months and a day upon retirement.  I can name names.  How much revenue does chasing wealth out bring in.

https://www.americanexperiment.org/what-america-needs-to-know-about-tim-walz-of-minnesota/

[Body-by-Guinness]

They ought to, given his lies and mishandling of issues close to home he used as an excuse to "Progressively" ("Progressive arson? Who knew?) strut across the national stage as his state's largest city burned:

Ferguson speaks
Democrats may not like the message
AUG 08, 2024

Democrat fortunes changed on Tuesday, but not in a good way for the Party Of Obama. Bonehead Kamala picked Tampon Tim as her running mate. On Sunday, Walz called JD Vance weird. It was projection by Tiny Timmy.

He’s the governor of Minnesota who ordered schools to stock tampons in the boys’ room. He extended LGBT Rights protections to pedophiles. He embraced the transgender movement with a fervor that frightens stable people.

He’s also the governor who fiddled while Minneapolis burned. His bananas wife said, “I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”

She loved the smell of small businesses burning to the ground in the morning.

Walz’s support of BLM was popular in 2020. Four years later, maybe not.


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Before there was a Saint George Floyd, the media tried to canonize Michael D. Brown Jr. of Ferguson, Missouri, who confronted a cop, wrestled for the officer’s pistol, failed and was killed. There was a lot of commotion and small business owners lost years of sweat equity as mobs attacked shops.

Other than that, nothing seems to have happened.

At least that is my interpretation of Wesley Bell primarying Congresswoman Cori Bush on Tuesday. He’s the prosecutor who did not charge the officer. She’s the activist who used the riots to propel her into Congress, as four years ago, she primaried 10-term congressman Lacy Clay whose father held the seat for 32 years.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee poured $7 million into this year’s race because of Bush’s support of Hamas terrorists who raped and murdered 1,200 Israelis and others attending a peace music festival and other events on October 7.

The pro-Israel group also primaried Hamas supporter Jamaal Bowman in New York in June. The spending was used wisely. NYT reported:

In funding ads in Ms. Bush’s and Mr. Bowman’s races, AIPAC often focused on issues other than the war in Gaza, opting instead to take on their votes against President Biden’s infrastructure bill.

Their opponents were well known. George Latimer, who defeated Bowman, is the county executive of Westchester County. And Bell is a prosecutor. The NYT story said:

Mr. Bell campaigned against Ms. Bush on multiple fronts. He talked about his support of Israel, but also argued that Ms. Bush had grown ineffective in Washington, prioritizing national interests over getting local results.

The vote was a referendum on Bush. She won in the city of St. Louis, but lost bigly in the suburbs north of the city, which included Ferguson.

CBS reported that Bush tried to use Ferguson to salvage her campaign:

Friday marks the 10th anniversary since the 18-year-old was shot by a local police officer, Darren Wilson, sparking massive demonstrations. Bush was one of the key organizers on the ground and has remained close to the Brown family. Bell, a former municipal prosecutor and judge, served on the Ferguson City Council. When Bell became county prosecutor, he reopened an investigation into Brown's death, but in 2020 announced that no charges would be brought against [Police Officer] Wilson.

In one of Bush's closing ads, Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., claims Bell "lied to us" because of his failure to charge Wilson.

But Bell, a former councilman in Ferguson, had the backing of its mayor and other members of the community.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee played it smart by getting Bush on issues that mattered to voters rather than Israel’s problems with Hamas. AIPAC wanted her gone, did its homework and got it done.

Winning matters because that is the best message to send people who want you dead from the river to the sea. AIPAC looked at her vulnerabilities and exploited them. The rest of the anti-Semites in Congress must heed the warning.

And one of those vulnerabilities was Ferguson.

Which leads me back to Governor Walz and his smoke-sniffing spouse.

Reuters reported, “Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s selection as the Democrat vice presidential contender has thrust his handling of racial justice protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd back into the spotlight, drawing both criticism and praise for his state's response during one of the most tumultuous periods concerning race relations in U.S. history.

“As Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ running mate, Walz's actions in the aftermath of Floyd's killing by a white Minneapolis police officer [FACT CHECK: FLOYD DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE] are being criticized by allies of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and far-right pundits who say he was too slow to mobilize law enforcement to stop looting, arson and violence that accompanied protests in Minneapolis.”

How slow was Walz? He did not deploy the National Guard until after rioters burned down a police precinct. All that damage — estimated at a half-billion dollars — seems to have been for naught.

Walz has other problems, the most serious being his lies about his service in the National Guard, which he retired from in 2005 when he learned his unit was headed for Iraq. He also lied about serving in Afghanistan. He was sent to Italy.

Jordan Schachtel has the details.

We shall see how Donald Trump plays this issue. Picking a running mate who actually served in Iraq as a Marine was prescient.

Democrats have a bigger problem. The primarying of Cori Bush shows that BLM has lost its electoral magic. I am pretty sure Democrats are sweating this one out because if those Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests become an issue again, this time it likely won’t go well for Democrats.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/ferguson-speaks?r=1qo1e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

[DougMacG]

"She loved the smell of small businesses burning to the ground in the morning."

   - What a line. 

Sanders, Warren, Jeremiah Wright et al, they talk the talk.  Tim Walz walked the walk.  He fiddled while Rome burned.  Only this time it was televised.

Two properties immediately adjacent to properties of mine were hit.  One on the tougher Northside where arson riot copycatters were jealous of the zealots of George Floyd square.  The other was just outside the "City of Lakes" largest lake, what used to be a GREAT neighborhood.  The lake formerly known as Lake Clalhoun, now a sign says "You are on Native Land" and it's now called Bde Maka Ska.  Try to pronounce that.

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/no-evidence-cnn-reporter-delivers-devastating-fact-check-on-walz-s-claims-about-military-service/ar-AA1oqoGs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=c5bdef71d3b14323a4098fc9df783d6c&ei=12

[Body-by-Guinness]

now called Bde Maka Ska.  Try to pronounce that.

There ought to be a rule against Biden naming things given his incomprehensibility 

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X-verse claiming Walz upped his retirement pay by claiming a promotion and hence rank he failed to meet because of his departure:

https://x.com/whistlingdixiee/status/1821415013975781616

One point being made is that the MSM is actually reporting on this stuff, albeit framing it pejoratively as "SwiftBoating," meaning it's more about negative sizzle than actual campaign issue steak. Given their habit of ignoring potentially debilitating info re the candidates "Progressives" put forward, what's their end game? Cut this loss before it loses the election for 'em?

[Body-by-Guinness]

FOIAing Walz? be sure to include his pseudonym:

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/08/07/tim-walz-used-fake-emails-to-avoid-open-records-requests-n2399342

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Wayback Machine finds Walz presser re his deployment to Iraq:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050420005951/http://www.timwalz.org/print.php?pr=1

[DougMacG]

"An ABC News/Ipsos survey conducted before Walz was selected for the VP slot, but after vetting began, showed that nearly 9 in 10 U.S. adults didn’t know enough about him, or had no opinion. Among Americans with a view, opinions were split between positive and negative: 6% had a favorable view, and 7% had an unfavorable one."
https://apnews.com/article/harris-walz-election-vp-democrats-minnesota-b4cc465ca1cabd8f256b99717bc17fdc

  -  (Doug) This is the biggest name she could find, 6% approval before all the bad stuff came out.

Tim Kaine, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, how are all the recent VP losers doing today?

The creme isn't exactly rising to the top in American politics.

[ccp]

Come on Doug.
The Dems tell us they have a "very deep bench"

 

[DougMacG]

Come on Doug.
The Dems tell us they have a "very deep bench"
 

I think this was already posted but I'll attach it to the Walz thread:  VDH from California says Walz is the nation's left most governor. That is saying a lot!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/09/the_harris_flop_would_be_scarier_than_her_flip_151425.html

Sean Trende thinks the Walz pick is a wasted political opportunity, fulfills none of the top three purposes of a VP pick.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/stories/analysis/kamala-harris-puzzling-vp-pick

He misses one thing, Walz is a pick that will govern exactly as the cabal behind the curtain tells him to, if ever elevated to President.

Maybe they think they can win with ballot box stuffing instead of persuasion.

Local conservative radio is thrilled to see the nation take an interest in the lies and extreme Leftism of Tim Walz, points they have been making to deaf ears for years.

How could a guy with a name like Tim and a look like his be threatening?

It's the policies stupid.

This whole fiasco makes me believe the dump Joe chapter was not planned. They planned to get Joe elected and then dump Joe.  They weren't ready for this.

Joe took too long to drop out. They narrowed the list and announced a 'short list' too soon and they ran out of time to expand the list. The Governor of North Carolina pulled himself out. The Senator from Arizona had problems. The apparent intended pick, the Governor of Pennsylvania, pulled himself out at the last moment - under scrutiny. Now they have a guy who embellished his military record, bragged of his embellished record while voting for the stolen valor act criminalizing certain embellishments.

Walz' doesn't win them a state they need, doesn't reach to the center and doesn't soften a negative narrative on Harris.

The Walz pick is an unforced error.  It will even hurt Dems in Minnesota because the Governor and the Dem legislature have never been scrutinized like this before.

Minnesotans didn't take a close look at the Walz record when he was reelected and now they're hearing about it.  2 Days to respond while he and everyone was watching the states largest city burn?  The criticized Trump for 3 hours and it wasn't burning.

Free tampons in the boys room, mandated by state law, good bleeping grief.  That isn't common sense governance.  That's just weird!

Trump will come to MN (already has) just to point out to the rest of the nation how wacko Walz and the Dems are here.

If Trump carries Minnesota, which means he already won Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, it's a turning point for the nation.

And they (we?) call us the stupid party.  At worst, we're the other stupid party.

[ccp]

" Maybe they think they can win with ballot box stuffing instead of persuasion."

As we Jews say,
GODFORBID!

But, in reality they will be doing this IN FORCE.
The Dem billionaire money is already poured in to fund this.

Somehow watching polls by us is supposed to counter this.
What we really need is covert not overt surveillance and intelligence inside to lift the curtain up that is blocking what they are really doing. Sitting out side a poll station isn't going to do anything..... IMHO

[DougMacG]

Neighboring South Dakota has four times the growth rate. I wonder why...

From the article:
"At least overtaxed and jobless Minnesotans can vote with their feet."

Many of those who can, are, but some of us can't. Can't. Even if I move to the moon, my properties are still taxed in Minnesota.

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Hmm, my guess is Walz’s days are numbered. I’m shocked that CNN actually did some leg work, found this guy, allowed him to speak at length with few interruptions, and treated him with respect. All I can figure is they think Harris will lose due to Walz—so far left the election tips over or something?—and hence have gone all in on framing his cowardice and abandonment of his subordinates and unit:

https://x.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/1822070448965730566?s=61

And hey, this stuff is a hoot to watch. Hope Trump gets to ask “those on your staff that don’t quit due to your bullying instead prove to be poorly vetted hires. What does that say about your leadership abilities? Can the nation risk electing someone wholly lacking in this basic leadership skill?”

[DougMacG]

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-minnesotan-sizes-up-tim-walz-progressive-vice-president-crime-education-covid-e4e757ec

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/eye-of-the-hurricane-2.php

It feels like a hostage situation here and we are calling to the outside world for help. 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/freedom-walz-style.php

https://nypost.com/2024/08/09/us-news/tim-walzs-2022-opponent-blasts-vp-pick-as-wold-in-sheeps-clothing/

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/08/07/evil-person-minnesota-business-owner-unloads-on-tim-walz-for-being-complete-dictator-during-covid-19-pandemic/

[DougMacG]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/tim-walz-misspoke-discussed-using-weapons-war-campaign-says-rcna166038

Right. "Misspoke".

Others might call that lying about your military experience.

Now waiting for admission that he "misgoverned".

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jd-vance-calls-out-cnn-for-ignoring-own-guest-covering-for-tim-walz-on-iraq-deployment/ar-AA1oCioO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=410eb42c55944d28b24f95b4468871a3&ei=13

[DougMacG]

Read the bold part.  He's speaking of his time in the National Guard but he only visited Iraq much later during his time in the House of Representatives.

Worse yet, "Bagram Air Base in Iraq" is (was) in Afghanistan.

These are official public remarks of an official event published on the State of Minnesota website.

The embellishment is purposeful with a pattern.

To be fair, they didn't vet Kamala very well either.

https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2023/mandated/231447.pdf

Governor Tim Walz
Remarks at the Minnesota 9/11 20th Anniversary Commemoration
September 11, 2021 (in their entirety)
Minnesota State Capitol
To our distinguished guests, to the Senators and Congresswoman McCollum,
thank you for being the servant leaders, for serving the people, standing up
and for making sure that Minnesota's values are taken to Washington. General
Votel, you're a treasure. You are a son of Saint Paul. We are proud, and your time
and service and your words today echo to our better angels. To Commissioner
Herke and to the entire team, and our legislators, I want to thank you for this
endeavor to make sure that we remember, we learn, we spend the time necessary to understand what September 11th meant, both in the moment, individually and collectively, and what it means going forward.

Today is the beginning of a year-long exploration of that. The vision and
foresight and creating this space for us to gather as a community is critically
important for understanding what happened. And to those families who lost
loved ones on 9/11 and to our Gold Star Families, it's a fundamental truth of
this nation that no one holds a more honored place in our society. Whenever
you are present, everyone else is present.

To our first responders: Each and every day there are people who go to work
in jobs that put them in harm's way, simply so that we can enjoy peace and
the freedom that billions of people around the world can never even dream
of having. And they do it without expectations of parades. They do it without
expectations of anything. They do it out of the sense of being the best of who
we are. So for each and every one of you, thank you.

Like most of us, I spent this last week thinking about what has happened in these
past 20 years. And while it's natural to think about your own personal journey,
it's also something broader. We are not an island. We are among others. We're
among our fellow Minnesotans and our fellow Americans.
And I think of all those emotions I went through when our country was attacked:

fear, anger, confusion, hope, pride, a desire for revenge, guilt. As for me, I was
sitting in room 114 at Mankato West High School right before school started.
And in a typical high school, there was the noise in the halls, and it was a new
school year. But then kids started coming in and sitting in classrooms and the
TV was on, and those events started to unfold, and that room got fuller and
quieter and there were tears and fear and confusion.

In the years after that classroom, I had the privilege of serving in this state's
national guard. I stood one night in the dark of night on the tarmac at Bagram
Air Base in Iraq and watched a military ramp ceremony–a soldier’s body being
loaded onto a plane to be returned home. And if you've seen it, you don't leave
the same. It makes you wonder, what are we doing? What are we trying to get
to? And then watching as all of you have been, the confusing last few weeks
with the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

As we’ve been reminded today, it was this state that volunteered first when the
nation was most in peril. From Gettysburg to Kabul, Minnesotans have been
there and they've done what was asked of them. Ahead of this day of remembrance, I spoke with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff George
Casey, who served during this time. He and I reflected on the horrors of what
happened. I think General Votel was right: It was more than the beginning or
the end, it was the middle. It was the middle that mattered. It was the sacrifices that mattered.
I'm going to encourage all of you to understand this, lest we even for one
minute believe that these sacrifices were in vain. These service members, those
40,000 Minnesotans, changed the world for the better. Some in small ways,
some in profound ways. And they learned from the generation before them,
especially our Vietnam Veterans who said, ‘Never again.’ It was because of that
commitment that America learned to separate the war from the warrior. You
don't have to agree with the political decisions that were made, but you better
understand that those folks who raised their hand will do what's asked of them.
In Lincoln's second inaugural address, he made it clear we have a sacred responsibility for care for those who had ‘borne the battle’ and the families they
had left behind. Because of that, they transformed care for Veterans. And right
here in Minnesota, there is the flagship of the VA Healthcare System, one of
four polytrauma centers. Not only is it the best VA system in the country, it is
one of the best hospital systems in the world. That is because Veterans deserve
nothing less, and this generation made it happen.

But what I would leave you with today is that whatever brought you here to
this remembrance ceremony, you came to do it in community. And many of us
remember all the horror and the tragedy and the confusion that happened in
the days after September 11th, but we also remember seeing neighbors who
never put a flag out, put their flags out. We were united. I'm not saying we all
thought the same. I'm not saying we all agreed on everything, but we understood that the things that united us were far greater than those that divided us.

And today, you've chosen to come down here and maybe get that feeling back.
To honor the sacrifices that have been made from Gettysburg and beyond by
Minnesotans, it's our responsibility to live our lives with dignity, with empathy,
with passion, with commitment, not just in our own personal journey, but to
our neighbors. As we reflect over this year, we can focus on the positives, on
the many things that have made us stronger and better. Let's continue to work
towards that one unified place. To our Gold Star Families, no words will ease
your pain, but you have the gratitude of all Minnesotans. To each of you who
came, thank you. So may God bless each of you, the great state of Minnesota,
and the great United States.
---------------------------------------
Walz "misspoke for 19 years it seems...
https://x.com/breeadail/status/1822622613580997051

[DougMacG]

He enacted 'Rule by 1' for 15 months.

https://reason.com/2024/08/06/tim-walz-was-a-covid-19-tyrant/

Strangely he made exceptions for George Floyd gatherings.

Snitch Hotline.  Nursing home scandal. Mask mandates that included outdoor spaces.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/walz-crowds-are-a-little-too-big-at-minneapolis-lakes

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3104531/socialists-make-terrible-neighbors/

https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/gazelka-criticizes-state-hotline-asking-minnesotans-to-report-violations-of-stay-home-order/

https://www.startribune.com/walz-mandates-masks-indoors-across-state/571861471

https://www.jacksonlewis.com/insights/minnesota-extends-covid-19-four-week-dial-back-period-modifications

https://www.cato.org/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harris-running-mate-teases-his-own-project-2025-socialism-2cc09600

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-covid-andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-deaths/

https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/newsmd/walz-this-was-not-a-mistake-to-discharge-covid-19-patients-into-homes

[Crafty_Dog]

Transfered from FB to text for me by a friend:

John Kolb is with Thomas Behrends.

14h8

Feeling a need to say this:

I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major.

Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership. Thomas Behrends was the right leader at the right time. He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, business and farming-partner brother to train, lead and care for soldiers. He earned the privilege of being called Command Sergeant Major. Like a great leader he ran toward and not away from the guns.

I have no opinion of Mr. Walz's decision to leave service at the time he did. It was his right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his service as an E7 and E8 in the MNARNG. By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant. I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair.

He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9. It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path.

#notmyCSM

[Crafty_Dog]

Walz let Minneapolis burn

Minnesota National Guard report said riot troops ready, not bunch of ‘cooks’

By Rowan Scarborough

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mocked Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who, on May 27, 2020, as his city burned, issued an urgent call to the governor to send in the National Guard. Mr. Walz delayed action by more than 24 hours that May, amid the George Floyd protests and riots, as buildings, including a police precinct, went down.

“I don’t think the mayor knew what he was asking for,” Mr. Walz later said. “We’re going to have massively trained troops? No. You are going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks in some cases. And what are we going to do, and how are we going to use them?”

Mr. Walz had to know his spin wasn’t true. He served for 24 years in the National Guard, retiring as a master sergeant, though he told the world that he left at the higher rank of command sergeant major. That’s like a retired Army colonel telling people he was a general.

Mr. Walz knew the Minneapolis Guard, with combat air and ground units, including his artillery outfit, was considered top-notch. He just did not want to send them against left-wing destructors. After all, his wife said in an interview that she opened the window to let in the intoxicating smell of rioting.

But there is evidence the Guard was ready on May 27, the second day of bedlam.

I reviewed the Minnesota Guard’s annual 2020 report, which narrated its history from May 25, the day Floyd was murdered by city police.

Sure enough, the troops were ready to go on May 26 and the 27 if only the governor had heeded the Minneapolis mayor’s and the police chief’s request instead of waiting. He delayed until the evening of May 28, 2020 — after two days of rioting — sending 100 soldiers when the request was for at least 600 to start. He did not sign a written order until May 29.

The Guard’s annual report set the scene: “As the month of May came to a close, looting was rampant, fires raged in small businesses and a Minneapolis police precinct was burned to the ground. This unlawful activity threatened the safety of lawful and peaceful demonstrators and residents of the city.”

“By May 31,” the report continued, “more than 7,000 soldiers and airmen were on duty. It was the first full activation of the Minnesota National Guard for state active duty and the largest domestic deployment in the organization’s 164-year history. The Minnesota National Guard was fully integrated with local and state agencies executing a coordinated response.”

An open letter from Col. Timothy Kemp, commander of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, said: “Within mere hours of receiving the call, you were in place and providing assistance to Minneapolis and its residents amidst destruction and under further threat of violence emerging from peaceful protests. In every action you took, you operated with great discipline while under immense pressure. Your arrival and presence brought a change in the tone throughout the metro. “

Think of the damage that could have been prevented had Mr. Walz activated the troops 24 hours early on May 27.

Republicans from the start criticized the Democrat’s portrayal of the 13,000-troop state Guard as teenage cooks.

State Sen. Jeff Howe said: “I am deeply disappointed that this is what Governor Walz, the Commander in Chief of the Minnesota National Guard, thinks of his soldiers. Minnesota is fortunate to have one of the best National Guards in the country, and each one of our National Guard members contributes to that distinction.” Four years later, criticism of Mr. Walz erupted once Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, picked him as her VP candidate.

Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, posted on X on Aug. 6: “Tim Walz refused requests for the National Guard, allowing rioters to burn more than 1,500 Minneapolis businesses & a police station. More than half a *billion* $ in damage. Walz could have stopped it, if he wanted to. Picking Walz shows how radical Kamala Harris truly is.”

Conservatives have accused Mr. Walz of a series of “stolen valor” offenses. He wrongly claimed for years a retirement rank of command sergeant major. He said he carried a weapon into war when he had not. He implied he served on the ground in Iraq when he did not and failed to correct people in his presence who falsely said that he did.

The big offense, in the eyes of some fellow Guard soldiers, is that he retired in May 2005 after his field artillery unit learned they were headed to Iraq for what turned out to be over a 20-months of combat.

Some liberal press reports have attempted to exonerate him by noting the official Iraq orders did not come along until July 2005.

But there is ample evidence the Guard knew in early 2005 that they were likely deploying.

For example, a Pipestone (Minnesota) Country Star news report on March 23, 2005, was headlined “Guard Units Alerted.”

“Detachments of the Minnesota National Guard have been ‘alerted’ of possible deployment to Iraq in mid-to-late 2006,” the story said. One of the units was Mr. Walz’s 125th Field Artillery.

In October 2020, the Minnesota Senate issued a report on the bungled riot response.

It concluded: “The 2020 Minnesota riots were an unprecedented and catastrophic situation. People died; businesses were destroyed; and livelihoods were lost. Food and medicine became nearly impossible to obtain; employment disappeared; and fear reigned over the state. Over 1,500 properties were damaged at a value of over $500 million. This is three times as many businesses than are in the Mall of America. This is Minnesota, not war-torn Iraq or Syria.”

The Senate report added, “Over 18 hours after Minnesota National Guard assistance was initially requested and 15 hours after the written request for Minnesota National Guard assistance was given, Governor Walz had yet to decide if he was going to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard.”

Rowan Scarborough is a columnist with The Washing-ton Times

[Crafty_Dog]

second

If Kamala Harris wanted to dispel the idea that Democrats are soft on crime, Tim Walz was an odd choice of running mate. Mr. Walz’s tenure as Minnesota’s governor will be defined by the George Floyd race riots in Minneapolis and his response to them. Americans everywhere still live with the consequences.

On Memorial Day 2020, May 25, Floyd passed a counterfeit $20 bill at a Minneapolis convenience store. The clerk called the police; Floyd, high on fentanyl, resisted arrest and said that he couldn’t breathe. After a long struggle, the responding officers managed to cuff Floyd and place him prone on the ground; Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck and back for nine minutes. Floyd died of cardiac arrest.

The violence in Minneapolis began soon after a cellphone video of the incident went viral on May 26. By May 27, the looting, arson and assaults had become an ecstatic frenzy of destruction. Rioters tore open plywood barricades that business owners had hurriedly nailed over storefronts and tossed Molotov cocktails inside the premises. Cash, merchandise and safes were stolen, businesses burned to the ground.

Firefighters were attacked, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said they were delayed in responding to calls because of “insufficient law enforcement presence to ensure firefighters’ safety prior.” The Third Precinct—where the officers who responded to the Floyd call worked—came under attack in the early hours of May 28. Rioters fired high-powered BB guns at officers outside the precinct; the front door was shot out at 4 a.m. All around the station house, businesses were burning down.

On May 27, Gov. Walz used his midday Covid press briefing to racialize what he called Floyd’s wrongful death and to commend the Minneapolis mayor’s immediate firing of the four officers: “We all know that these types of incidents disproportionately affect our black and brown community members,” Mr. Walz said. He thanked the “protesters” for their “commitment to safely protest during this pandemic”—an apparent reference to wearing masks—and “encouraged everyone to be safe, especially in light of the Covid 19 pandemic.” He described himself as “saddened to see that some of the protesters were in harm’s way” the previous night, his only oblique reference to the riots.

At 6:30 p.m. the same day, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey asked Mr. Walz to activate the Minnesota National Guard. Mr. Frey followed up with a written request at 9:11 p.m. Mr. Walz didn’t respond until 4 p.m. the next day, when he signed an executive order activating 500 state soldiers. In the interim, his staff had quizzed the Guard about its members’ DEI training and whether they had experience working with “diverse communities,” according to a report by a Minnesota Senate committee.

By the time the Guard arrived on May 28, it was too late. According to the committee report, officers at the Third Precinct were “taking paintball rounds, frozen water bottles, rocks, and mortar rounds.” Mr. Frey ordered its evacuation just before 10 p.m. The station house was immediately overrun and torched.

On May 29, Mr. Walz held a press conference to explain his decision to send in the National Guard and its belated timing. “There was a decision during the day whether—did you occupy the entire city and shut it down after those 24 hours?” he said. The problem Mr. Walz allegedly confronted was that the “tools of restoring order are viewed by so many as the things that have oppressed and started the problem in the first place.” He spoke of “people who are concerned about that police presence of an overly armed camp in their neighborhoods that is not seen in communities where children of people who look like me run to the police, others have to run from.”

Mr. Walz’s skin color bore on his legitimacy as a decision-maker, he said: “I will not patronize you as a white male without living those experiences of how difficult” it is to have a police force occupying one’s neighborhood. He described the riots themselves as a manifestation of systemic racism: “What the world has witnessed since the killing of George Floyd on Monday has been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand who we are and where we go from here.” Mr. Walz imputed a sacramental quality to the looted and torched buildings: “The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard.”

The limited deployment of Guardsmen proved insufficient. On the morning of May 30, Mr. Walz activated the entire Minnesota National Guard. By the next day, more than 5,000 soldiers and airmen had been called up. They eventually restored order.

The unchecked chaos in Minneapolis had long since spread across the country, with copycat looting, arson, and attacks on police breaking out in multiple cities. In Minneapolis, more than 1,500 businesses and buildings burned. Property damage was estimated at $500 million; the livelihoods destroyed by the mayhem were incalculable. Most of the Minneapolis rioters faced no consequences; police were too overwhelmed to make many arrests, and almost nobody was prosecuted.

The message was clear: Lawlessness is free. Homicides nearly doubled in Minneapolis from 2019 to 2021; aggravated assaults were up by one-third. Carjackings increased more than fivefold between 2019 and 2020 and are still at record levels, with armed juveniles as young as 12 playing a starring role.

So far in 2024, homicides in Minneapolis are 114% above their 2019 level. Homicides in the Third Precinct are more than three times the 2019 figure, and robberies are up 84%. Crime in the state as a whole is up 12% compared with 2019, when Mr. Walz took office.

[DougMacG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJmKEkOfgk

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3122450/walz-administration-awarded-2-million-muslim-group-fundraising-al-qaeda-linked/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEsnIxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ05iOeZeJHHzhRX3C1jIVav6KVHKW1aR4yFdeGkJ0s8sbQRnplUWVEv2A_aem_iyrOJoavzlj3doXYGJ_orA

[DougMacG]

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4830359-tim-walz-military-deception/

Great question.

Walz made the perfect straw man argument the other day, answer the charge no one made, dodge the real issue.

[Crafty_Dog]

Have not read this yet

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/08/14/peter-schweizer-democrat-vp-pick-tim-walz-tied-chinese-secret-police-stations-kidnap-ccp-critics/

[DougMacG]

https://archive.is/4vDJC

[DougMacG]

https://alphanews.org/man-who-says-he-accompanied-walz-on-trip-to-china-calls-vp-candidate-maoist-to-the-core/

[DougMacG]

https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2024/08/15/tim_walzs_radical_education_record_1051961.html

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBZtw-5mljY

A bit of hyperventilating here?  That said, this is a theme that needs to be pursued.

[DougMacG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBZtw-5mljY

A bit of hyperventilating here?  That said, this is a theme that needs to be pursued.

I agree.  People should be concerned.  His trips and his ties along with his security status give grounds for scrutiny.  We don't need to jump to traitor (without evidence) but his (and others) admiration of the Chinese system should disqualify him from the non-radical vote.
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/how-patriotic-can-you-get.php
Walz doesn’t hide his enthusiasm for Communism:

“[Communism] means that everyone is the same and everyone shares,” Walz said during a lesson on China’s communist system in November 1991. “The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/how-patriotic-can-you-get.php

[Doug]  We don't know full context of that quote but he wouldn't be welcome back 30 times if he was a big critic of the regime.  And he ought to be. Anything short of that is to legitimize oppression, in my view.

I hear it said that it's safe to walk the streets of Beijing at night.  Not if you carry a protest sign.

People don't "share" in ownership.  The regime owns and decides what you may have, what you may read, what you may say, what you may do, all by total coercion.

What do people here think these "re-education camps" are?  Nothing to do with liberty or anything we stand for, (but now we have them here).

Calling people a communist and a Marxist doesn't work anymore.  We need to explain why it is wrong.

[DougMacG]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVXXFvgaMAIVjgi?format=jpg&name=medium

[Crafty_Dog]

https://americanmind.org/salvo/walz-versus-the-electoral-college/?utm_campaign=American%20Mind%20Roundup&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9orb8E4wb5zCNTN9AYODOpC_G-uGkaX3bPMbzOQ4P0-mgbylwvPTY3kAb_oXkxoTlmA_t_kL-QE6DbhfL5wXOio3e7Hw&_hsmi=321320807&utm_content=321320807&utm_source=hs_email

Question for you Coach Walz:

Who goes to the Super Bowl?  The two teams with the most wins in their respective divisions, or the two teams that scored the most points?

[Crafty_Dog]

Tim Walz Brings ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies to Minnesota
Beginning in kindergarten, the state’s schoolchildren will be indoctrinated in radical racial ideology.
By Katherine Kersten
Aug. 21, 2024 12:53 pm ET


Tim Walz was a schoolteacher before entering politics, so what is his approach to teaching? The Minnesota Department of Education will soon release the initial version of a document that lays out how new “liberated” ethnic-studies requirements will be implemented in the state’s roughly 500 public-school districts and charter schools.

Mr. Walz signed the law establishing this initiative in 2023. The department’s standards and benchmarks, approved in January, require first-graders to “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”

Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.” High-school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”

The Walz administration has relied on committed political activists to design and guide implementation of the state’s education agenda. One of them is Brian Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in St. Paul and a leader and a founding organizer of Education for Liberation Minnesota, or EdLib MN, a group that aims to “be a political force” in Minnesota and “contend with the status quo of colonial education that prioritizes Eurocentric curricula.” Starting in 2020, EdLib MN’s ideological allies, who dominated the state’s social-studies standards drafting committee, made liberated ethnic studies a top priority. Recently, the Education Department assigned Mr. Lozenski as one of the writers of the statewide K-12 Ethnic Studies implementation document that the department is about to release.

Mr. Lozenski’s ideological commitments were on display in a 2022 article about the George Floyd riots titled “The Black Radical Tradition Can Help Us Imagine a More Just World.” The riots, he wrote, were “mass uprisings against racialized state violence,” which portend “the inevitable death” of the American “social order that prioritizes vulgar economics.” Mr. Lozenski urged schools reopening after Covid to “join the social unrest and actively combat the greater public health crisis of systemic racism.”

As part of its campaign to build support for the liberated ethnic-studies mandate, EdLib MN retweeted a graphic calling for “the abolition of policing” and declaring that “defunding the police” means “abolishing the social order and building a new society.”

The standards are laced with ideological jargon like “decolonization,” “dispossession” and “settler colonialism,” consistent with Mr. Lozenski’s animus toward Israel. “Ethnic Studies explores the colonial roots of the dispossession of Palestinian land and the creation of Zionism,” he co-wrote in a 2022 article titled “Fight for Ethnic Studies Moves to K-12 Classrooms.” Given “the devastating impact of Israeli colonialism,” the article continued, “studying Israeli settler colonialism in comparison to US settler colonialism” is “at the heart of the discipline of Ethnic Studies.”

As with police abolition, EdLib MN moved aggressively to encourage student activism against Israel. On Oct. 17, less than two weeks after Hamas’s massacre in Israel, Mr. Lozenski’s organization retweeted a public call for a “Student Walkout for Gaza.” The Arab Resource and Organizing Center offered resources for the event, including media talking points and templates for protest signs and chants. One sign read “Decolonize Palestine!” and depicted a masked woman hurling a rock, with a police car in flames behind it.

Implementation of liberated ethnic-studies standards is in the early stages in Minnesota schools. But in 2021 the St. Paul public schools made “critical ethnic studies” a graduation requirement, with Mr. Lozenski serving as a consultant. A look at that course’s instructional materials may shed light on what’s ahead for public schools throughout the state.

The St. Paul course makes “resistance” to America’s fundamental institutions a central theme. It instructs 16-year-olds to “build” a race- and ethnicity-based “narrative of transformative resistance” and to “challenge and expose” “systems of inequality.” It tells them to “resist all systems of oppressive power rooted in racism through collective action and change.” Accompanying artwork, labeled “seeds of resistance,” features protest signs that read “No Bans/No Walls” and “Abolish Prison.”

Minnesota’s experience with this radical restructuring of its public education system may give Americans a picture of what the nation as a whole could soon face.

Ms. Kersten is a senior policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment.