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Seems like the news is all Walz, all the time. Some of it is pretty damning, some is a bit exaggerated, and some – well, you decide.<\/p>\n
First up is a Fox News article which claims rural Minnesotans are unhappy with Walz’ policies.<\/p>\n
“We joke that we’re mini California. Most of us, if we could, we would annex into South Dakota. He’s put policies in place that have hurt small businesses. I have friends that have lost small businesses because of his policies. It’s killing our small towns, our rural development,” Matthew A. told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
“He point-blank said we’re just rocks and cows out here, and he has done very little to help us.<\/p>\n
Dan Fedders, a salesman in Minnesota, described the Harris-Walz ticket as “very liberal.”<\/p>\n
“I think they’re a great team, the two of them together. God bless them. But they’re not going to have a chance at all,” Fedders said of Walz and Harris. “In my opinion, he is just about as far liberal as she is. And I think most of the people in Minnesota are happy about it because he might leave or at least be gone for a period of time.”Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Rocks and cows?\u00a0 It’s twue, it’s twue.<\/p>\n
Walz, describing conservative areas of his state during a roundtable while campaigning for governor in 2017, said Democrats \u201cgo into depression\u201d when they see electoral maps shaded in red, but \u201cit\u2019s mostly rocks and cows that are in that red area.\u201d\u00a0 Forbes.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And when someone says they like your ticket because it might mean you are going elsewhere? That’s not even damning with faint praise.<\/p>\n
And then we get to Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the Muslim American Society in Minnesota, who spoke at Walz’ inauguration in 2019.<\/p>\n
As previously reported by Fox News Digital, Zaman, who is originally from Bangladesh, has used his Facebook page to share official Hamas press releases, blog posts from antisemitic sites and a 2015 link to a pro-Hitler film, “The Greatest Story Never Told.” Released in 2013, the propaganda film is antisemitic and popular among fringe groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League<\/u>.<\/p>\n
The 2019 inauguration adds to the list of appearances Walz and Zaman have made together dating back to at least 2018. Fox News II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then we have the cop who arrested Walz for speeding (96 in a 55) drunk in 1995.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe DUI charge was dropped for a Reason: it wasn\u2019t true,\u201d Walz\u2019s then-campaign communications director told local news in 2006. \u201cThe trooper had him drive to the station and then leave on his own after being at the station. Tim feels bad about speeding and has paid the ticket and apologized to his family at the time it happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Uh, no.<\/p>\n
In fact, the incident\u2019s police report clearly states that Walz was transported by police to a local hospital for blood alcohol testing after being arrested. And this week, Nebraska state police confirmed to CNN that Walz was taken by a state trooper to jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The campaign also says<\/p>\n
\nHis campaign manager told a similar story<\/a> to another local paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cWalz\u2019s campaign manager Kerry Greeley didn\u2019t dispute that Walz was speeding when he was pulled over that night, but she said Walz was not drunk. She attributed the misunderstanding to Walz\u2019s deafness, a condition resulting from his years of serving as an artillerist in the Army National Guard,\u201d read an article in the Post Bulletin.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe couldn\u2019t understand what the officer was saying to him,\u201d Greeley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said deaf people also can have balance issues. The judge eventually threw out the DUI charges against Walz and chastised the officer for not realizing that Walz was deaf, Greeley said,\u201d the report added.MSN.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Deafness caused him to blow a .128 BAC. Right.<\/p>\n
\nWalz took a plea deal, court records show, pleading guilty to reckless driving. In a court hearing in March 1996, Walz admitted that he had been drinking and driving.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Only way I know to have deafness cause someone to get drunk is when they start ignoring the wife’s yammering and start drinking.<\/p>\n
Last, but certainly not least – LTC John Kolb took over command of Walz’ battalian a few months after Walz’ retirement.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9,\u201d Kolb reportedly wrote. \u201cIt 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery\/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant,\u201d he added. \u201cI cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kolb also claimed Walz\u2019s departure from the National Guard may have been a boon to his unit. \u201cI 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,\u201d Kolb reportedly wrote in his post. \u201cUnwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership.\u201d\u00a0 Daily Beast<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s gonna leave a mark….but note that Kolb DID NOT COMMAND Waltz.\u00a0 So that tells me what Kolb knows of Walz he primarily knows second hand from Thomas Behrends, the fella who kicked all this off in 2022 calling Walz a traitor, coward, deserter,\u00a0 whatever. I’m going to need to see more to buy LTC Kolb’s comments – although peripherally supporting his allegations, that would certainly explain why an E-8\/9 retiring at the end of 24 years got a retirement award of…an Arcom. It’s not the lowest of the merit awards, that honor goes to the AAM if I recall…but as we have discussed before, it is not what a respected senior NCO would normally be given. Call this one no score.<\/p>\n
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