Originally published at LewRockwell.com.
Kamala Harris is bad enough, but stress on her manifest deficiencies should not make us lose sight of the problems with her running-mate, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, who would become president if Kamala were elected and something happened to her.
Walz is a “progressive” of the worst sort, close to being an outright communist. During the notorious Geroge Floyd riots after BLM (Black Lives Matter [but White Lives Don’t] nearly destroyed Minneapolis and St. Paul, Walz allowed the BLM to run rampant and refused to send in state police and the state national guard to protect white lives and property. As an account in Politico put it, “A report by Minnesota Senate Republicans three weeks before the election argues that DFL Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey failed to do enough to quell the days of looting and arson that followed the police killing of George Floyd.
The 61-page report, compiled after a series of summer hearings on the topic, blames what Republicans have long argued was an apparent lack of understanding of the quickly escalating situation and a hesitation to deploy additional law enforcement to end the violence and destruction in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The report follows months of criticism by President Donald Trump and state Republicans, who have turned the civil unrest that followed Floyd’s death into a campaign theme emphasizing law and order and support for police.
Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis sparked widespread protests against police brutality and racism across the globe. In the Twin Cities, more than 1,500 properties, including the Third Precinct police building in south Minneapolis, were damaged or destroyed over several days. Some were looted on multiple nights.
‘One central theme emerged fairly quickly during our hours of testimony: the governor’s slow decision-making caused the riots to be far, far worse than they should have been,’ said Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, Transportation Committee chairman, who co-authored the report.”
In acting in this way, Walz was in lockstep with Kamala Harris, who supported a fund to bail the rioters out of jail: “Former President Donald Trump’s campaign pummeled Vice President Kamala Harris for promoting a bail fund during the Black Lives Matter protests that ultimately helped free people accused of murder, sex assault and other violent crimes.
Harris, 59, had amplified a fundraiser for the Minnesota Freedom Fund in 2020 during the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that popped up in Minnesota and other parts of the country following the death of George Floyd.”
Far from stopping the rioters, Walz wants to take people’s guns away, so that they would have no way of defending themselves from the black marauders. In taking this stance, Walz is acting with utter cynicism. He owns a gun himself and was once a supporter of gun rights. But not anymore. According to a story in the New York Times, “Early in his political career, when he represented a largely rural district in Congress, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was a darling of the National Rifle Association.
The powerful group endorsed him, donated to his campaigns and once gave him an A rating. In 2016, Guns & Ammo magazine included him on its list of top 20 politicians for gun owners. Mr. Walz, after all, was an Army veteran and the rare gun-owning Democrat who spoke of his love for hunting.
But during his first campaign for governor in 2018, Mr. Walz began supporting tighter firearm restrictions. Shortly after a teenage gunman opened fire at a Florida high school in February 2018, Mr. Walz spoke out in favor of an assault weapons ban.
During that campaign, Mr. Walz celebrated that the N.R.A. had downgraded him to an “F” rating. And as governor, he has signed into law a handful of gun control measures, including one that went into effect on Thursday increasing penalties for acquiring a weapon on behalf of someone who is not eligible to own a firearm.
In 2023, Mr. Walz signed legislation giving law enforcement officials broader tools to remove weapons from people who are deemed to pose a risk to themselves and others. The law also expanded background checks for weapon sales.”
One of the absolutely worst programs of the lunatic left is mutilating young people to in fake gender-alteration surgery. The program includes both surgical interventions and so-called “puberty blockers.” Parents aren’t allowed to intervene. Here is a description of this vile program: “Walz, 60, a former high school teacher, signed the so-called “Trans Refuge” bill into law in April 2023, prohibiting the enforcement of out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants and extradition requests for people who travel to the North Star State from other states for gender-affirming care.
A month earlier, the Democrat signed an executive order protecting gender-affirming care in Minnesota, including puberty blockers, surgeries and hormone therapy.
The move came after a slew of red states had imposed a series of restrictions on those interventions.
‘In this state, hate has no home,’ Walz said during a signing ceremony. ‘In this state, love and acceptance is what we preach.’
The governor signed that order next to a 12-year-old trans girl, Hildie Edwards.
Last year, Walz also signed an education finance bill that featured language stipulating that all public and charter schools in the state ‘must provide students with access to menstrual products at no charge’ for grades 4 to 12 and that they “must be available to all menstruating students.”
Those products included “pads, tampons, or other similar products used in connection with the menstrual cycle”.
It isn’t enough that the leftwing “progressives want to destroy the distinction between men and women. They are radical “environmentalists,” who would destroy the American economy in order to “green” it. They promulgate the phony “climate change” agenda as a reason to do this. According to the pro-green “Inside Climate News,” “Tuesday’s announcement prompted high praise from climate advocates, including major national groups like the Sunrise Movement and Sierra Club, all of whom pointed to Walz’s robust environmental record.
“Walz is a climate champion moving Minnesota toward 100 percent clean energy,” Gina McCarthy, Biden’s former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, said in a statement. “He gets that climate action isn’t about politics, it’s about protecting our small towns and cities. It’s about creating safer and healthier communities for our kids and grandkids to grow up in.”
Among his most notable accomplishments as governor, Walz helped pass legislation requiring Minnesota to transition to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040, his administration adopted stricter vehicle emissions standards for the state and he signed into law several permitting reform provisions that supporters say will allow the state to build out clean energy far more quickly.
As a Congressman, Walz voted against two resolutions aimed at blocking then-President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a rule aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants.
Walz is also a radical on immigration. He wants to reward illegal immigrants by giving them a ‘path to citizenship’ and to provide costly aid programs for legal immigrants: ‘As Minnesota’s governor, he signed bills that provided health insurance coverage regardless of immigration status and made undocumented immigrants eligible for state driver’s licenses. He also signed a bill that allowed the state’s nearly 81,000 undocumented immigrants to receive free tuition at a state university.
In 2021 he urged Democratic leaders in Congress to prioritize creating a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants, including ‘Dreamers’ brought to the U.S. as children, essential workers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, and their families.”
Let’s do everything we can to expose Tim Walz’s record.
