Tom Walz, Democratic pick for VP 2024
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What’s Wrong With Gov. Tim Walz
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Nikki Haley on Tim Walz
“He’s subsidized electric vehicles,” she added. “He has no statutory limits on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. We know regardless of what side of that debate you’re on, abortion up until the time of birth is something that most Americans can’t stomach. He passed a law that gets in the middle of family decisions when it comes to kids and transgender issues. That’s interesting for a guy that says, ‘Mind your own damn business.’”She said the thing that freaked her out the most about Walz was when he said: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
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Top Ten Reasons Tim Walz Stinks, According to a Minnesotan
- 10. Unreasonable labor demands, initially backed by Walz, almost forced Uber out of Minnesota. Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) state senators crafted a bill — backed by Walz’s office — that nearly shut down the operations of both Uber and Lyft in the state. They demanded minimum compensation rates and benefits that would have made ride-share business in the state less than profitable. The initial bill has since received substantial edits, and the new draft awaits its fate in the state house. If the bill passes, the cost of the wage increases, of course, will be shifted onto consumers — a ride between Minneapolis and St. Paul will cost upwards of $50. This price increase will make most taxi rides cheaper than an Uber or a Lyft in the state.
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- 9. Walz supported pricey paid-leave legislation that will harm small business across the state. Set to take effect January 1, 2026, the new legislation demands up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents, those taking care of an ill family member, or those recovering from an illness themselves. If more than one of these circumstances occur in a single year, employers must provide up to 20 weeks of paid leave. Doug Loon, president and CEO of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, said the program could become the largest mandate on employers in state history. The law of unintended consequences will prevail — Walz will have to answer when Minnesotan businesses shutter because they cannot afford to provide four months of annual paid leave to staff members.
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- 8. Walz raises taxes — and stifles business — like nobody else. He implemented a slew of new taxes, including a new payroll tax — which will be used in part to fund the paid-leave scheme denoted above. As our friends at American for Tax Reform reported, when Walz first became governor in 2019, he tried to enact a budget that would have raised gas taxes by 20 percent and increased state spending by billions. When Minnesota had an $18 billion budget surplus in 2023, Walz blew through the surplus and enacted more taxes, including the payroll tax and the retail-delivery tax. He also hiked existing taxes, such as the motor-vehicle sales tax and the state corporate-income tax. The cherry on top? Residents of the land of 10,000 lakes must now pay $40 per watercraft to register their canoes, kayaks, or paddleboards with the state.
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- 7. Walz pushed unfair regulations on religious schools. He attempted to block religious colleges from offering Postsecondary Education Enrollment (PSE/O) courses — which offer college credits to high school students — because such colleges ask for statements of faith in their admissions processes. One of the Christian schools at the heart of the case, the University of the Northwestern, St. Paul, logged the most PSEO credit hours of any institution in the state. After concerned parties got the Becket Fund involved — a prestigious legal group dedicated to protecting religious freedom — Minnesota promised it would “pause” enforcement of the “eligibility status” of religious schools that offer PSEO credits.
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- 6. Walz virulently opposes school choice. In 2019, he would have shut down the state government rather than offer Minnesotan Republicans a chance to start a school-voucher program. Walz’s position of K–12 education is to instead throw more money at failing schools — and ensure that no families can choose to send their kids elsewhere. While Walz has turned Minnesota into a state with exorbitant levels of K–12 education spending — Minnesota spends over $12,000 per capita on elementary and secondary education, placing it among the top ten spenders in the country — the state’s national education rankings sank from fifth in 2018, the year before Walz took over as governor, to 17th this year.
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- 5. The largest pandemic fraud in the country occurred under his watch. Over $250 million was funneled from the Minnesota Department of Education to illegitimate nonprofits, such as “Feeding Our Future,” which claimed that it was feeding over 2,000 hungry children a day. Instead, the bulk of this cash went to luxury goods, cars, and real estate. Walz was verbally briefed about potential fraud in his state as early as April 2020. The fraud culminated in FBI raids in the state — nearly two dozen people of the 70 who have been charged have been convicted by the U.S. attorney’s office.
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- 4. Walz prioritized access to Covid-19 vaccines based on race. Those who lacked “BIPOC” status — i.e., non-Hispanic whites — were de-prioritized for Covid vaccines based on their race and ethnicity. In other words, non-white patients were given priority over white patients who possessed exactly the same age and health conditions. Under this schema, for example, a poor white person living in group housing was less eligible to receive a vaccine than a wealthy BIPOC person living in a single-family home. Walz’s unconstitutional legislation on race was not limited to Covid — he has also advanced racial quotas throughout Minnesota’s Department of Health and beyond.
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- 3. Walz supports total abortion access across all nine months of pregnancy, right up until birth. In January 2023, he signed the “Protect Reproductive Options Act” into law. The text codified a Minnesotan’s “right” to abortion and made Minnesota the first state in the union to adopt such measures. The law includes “sterilization” and “abortion care” in the definition of “reproductive health care,” to which every individual has a “fundamental right.” Planned Parenthood is thrilled at his candidacy: A statement released by the abortion conglomerate said that “by choosing Gov. Walz as her running mate, Vice President Harris has put forward the most pro-reproductive freedom ticket in history.”
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- 2. He let Minneapolis burn to the ground during the George Floyd riots. We’ve seen all of the photos of the looting, the destruction, the fires, and the chaos that took hold of Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death in police custody on May 26, 2020. Immigrant families had their businesses demolished, entire city blocks were burned, and residents were forced to flee their homes. Much of the destruction could have been avoided if Governor Tim Walz had simply recognized the violent riots for what they were, rather than labeling them “peaceful protests.” Walz allowed days to pass before supporting the Minneapolis Police Department with National Guard troops, but the damage had already been done. As of the year 2024, the neighborhood has yet to recover.
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- 1. Last, but not least, he caused one of the greatest tragedies in Minnesota’s history: the new state flag. As my colleague Noah Rothman penned back in December, Minnesota’s new state flag is a comedic travesty.
It looks like the national banner of a small, fictional Caribbean country you have to liberate from a caudillo in a first-person shooter. It’s the ensign a rebel army would hoist above the burnt-out husk of a battle-scarred parliament building. It’s the flag equivalent of Greendale Community College’s mascot, the Greendale Human Being — an anodyne expression of nothing in particular.
(I still prefer the Laser-Eyes Loon design, for the record.)
For all of this — and more! — thanks, Tim Walz!
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Governor Tom Walz wouldn't call the national guard out during 2020 Minneapolis riot.
(George Floyd trial)
Walz’s handling of unrest after George Floyd’s death coming under renewed scrutiny
In May 2020, as Minneapolis burned and grieved after the police murder of George Floyd, Tim Walz seemed backed into a corner. The Minnesota governor was facing a barrage of criticism for not moving faster to restore order after the torching of a police station and numerous businesses. LosAngeles Times, Aug. 17, 2024• $ •
Gov. Walz Devastated Our State
Walz is "an extreme liberal," Hann told "Wake Up America." "He said recently, famously that socialism was just neighborliness. He is proud to be a big spending liberal."Walz "has been a disaster for the state of Minnesota," Hann continued, and "his policies have really brought devastation.
"People around the country don't really know much about him, but they find out, and they will agree this is the most radical, extreme ticket that the Democratic Party has ever put up."
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Walz championed creation of a so-called Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Center at the Minnesota Department of Education “to build toward an education system committed to anti-racism.”
August 07, 2024
As governor of Minnesota, Walz championed creation of a so-called Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Center at the Minnesota Department of Education “to build toward an education system committed to anti-racism.”
As Kendi describes it: “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
To teach Minnesota’s children that they must embrace anti-racist discrimination, Walz pushed for the creation of Ethnic Studies requirements.
Katherine Kersten, senior policy fellow at Minnesota’s Center of the American Experiment, writes:
The radical Ethnic Studies addition to Minnesota’s proposed social studies standards encourages students to disrupt and dismantle America’s fundamental institutions. … The model curriculum’s ‘guiding principles’ call for ‘transformative resistance’ and repudiate ‘forms of power and oppression’ that include ‘cisheteropatriarchy’ and ‘anthropocentrism’—the belief that human beings are superior to animals. The curriculum originally incorporated student chants to bloodthirsty Aztec gods, but recently dropped these following a legal settlement.
During Walz’s governorship, the Minnesota Department of Education stacked the Ethnic Studies drafting committee with radical activists, including Jonathan Hamilton of Education for Liberation Minnesota, who had denounced the state’s public education system as a “white supremacist puzzle that must be taken apart and exposed for the lie it is.”
Walz’s record is no less extreme when it comes to gender issues in education. One of Walz’s signature accomplishments as Minnesota governor was to sign an executive order that ensured minors could undergo surgical and pharmacological procedures that would alter whether they looked like a boy or girl.
Ignoring concerns about whether children could meaningfully consent to irreversible “gender-changing” drugs and surgeries, Walz directed state agencies “to refuse approval of health plans that do not cover gender-affirming care and to investigate any complaints about denial of gender-affirming care.”