{"id":159687,"date":"2024-08-06T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159687"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T21:57:43","slug":"five-tim-waltz-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159687","title":{"rendered":"Five Tim Walz controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kamala Harris was happy with Tim Walz’s accomplishments as governor. These accomplishments included free school meals regardless of income, getting abortion rights into the state constitution, and making Minnesota a place for children wanting transgender medical procedures. However, Walz has made decisions in the past that leads one to ponder his character. Readers here are familiar with his decision to retire rather than deploy to Iraq. This isn’t the only controversial decision Walz is associated with. He has a DUI related arrest, he poorly handled the Minnesota’s reaction to the BLM riots, he was quick to place controls during the pandemic, etc.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Walz’s critics say his handling of the Minneapolis riots after the 2020 killing of George Floyd was a failure and low point of his first term as governor.<\/p>\n

“[H]e’s been a disaster for Minnesota and is by far the most partisan governor that I can remember having,” Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann told Fox News Digital. “Going back to 2020, certainly — he did nothing to try to stop the riots going on in Minneapolis. I think he was fearful of alienating his ‘progressive’ base, who were supporting the riots. Kamala Harris was raising money for the rioters.”<\/p>\n

Walz deployed the National Guard to stop the violence, which included the torching of a police station. But GOP lawmakers have said both the governor and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey were too slow to act.<\/p>\n

Republican state Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka accused Walz of a slow response to the riots, which left businesses in downtown Minneapolis in ruins.<\/p>\n

“I called the White House after [four] days of unbridled rioting with the Governor frozen on what to do,” Gazelka wrote on X on July 28. “I know that Gov[.] Walz and Pres[ident] Trump talked. I know Walz finally brought the Guard out in full for the next night. But Walz was [three] days too late. Pressure may have made him move.”<\/p>\n

Hann similarly said Walz “waited for three days before he could bring himself to ask for the National Guard to be deployed.” He also pointed to the “defund” police movement’s roots in Minnesota following Floyd’s murder and subsequent rioting in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

As a result of the delayed action, hundreds of businesses across Minneapolis and St. Paul were devastated by the destruction and had to ask their local government for help recovering — on top of what they lost during pandemic-related closures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pandolfo, C. (2024, August 6). Five controversies surrounding vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, from DUI to COVID fraud. Fox News<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris was happy with Tim Walz’s accomplishments as governor. These accomplishments included free school meals … Five Tim Walz controversies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}