Showing posts with label Tim Walz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Walz. Show all posts

Sunday, September 1, 2024

Harris-Walz campaign uses anti-democratic tactics against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the name of saving democracy

 In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for the White House. But at the same time, another much quieter drama unfolded: A reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the second-largest news organization in the most important battleground state, was being denied access to the venue. ...

The Harris-Walz campaign continues to take measures to exclude Post-Gazette reporters and photographers from its events due to an ongoing, and very unusual, labor action at the newspaper. The journalists’ strike is unusual because it has gone on so long — nearly two years, making it the longest ongoing strike in America — but also because it has only ever attracted the support of a small minority of the bargaining unit. ... the more anti-democratic tactics we tolerate in the name of saving democracy, the less democracy there will be left to save.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Tim Mind Your Own Damn Business Walz succeeded in funding a program in Minnesota which threatens to create a hate speech registry


 

Gov. Tim Walz’s original budget proposal for the human rights department included funding for the work: $395,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $250,000 annually after that to report on criminal and non-criminal “discrimination and hate incidents” statewide.

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Remember that Kamala Harris went with her gut in picking the chronically mendacious Tim Walz: I really like him, she said

 “He’s just so open,” Ms. Harris marveled privately after her meeting with Mr. Walz, according to one person with knowledge of her comments. “I really like him.”

The leaker probably comes from this group:

The questioners included Marty Walsh, who had served as Mr. Biden’s labor secretary; Mr. [Cedric] Richmond, a campaign co-chair; Tony West, Ms. Harris’s brother-in-law; Dana Remus, a former White House counsel; and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada.

My guess is the brother-in-law, or Cedric Richmond:

“She wanted someone who understood the role, someone she had a connection with and someone who brought contrast to the ticket,” said Cedric Richmond, a former White House adviser who was part of Ms. Harris’s selection team.

In the end, General Harris picked the soldier who would obey orders:

In contrast, Ms. Harris would later describe Mr. Walz — who explicitly told her not to pick him if he could not help her win — as “joyful” and willing to do anything for the team.

-- The New York Times, August 6, 2024

 

 


 

Thursday, August 15, 2024

CNN says Tim Walz lied about his DUI arrest during his 2006 campaign for a US House seat

First ABC News about his military service, now CNN about this.

 https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/politics/tim-walz-2006-campaign-falsely-described-dwi-kfile/index.html


ABC News says Tim Walz didn't deny he served in Afghanistan, appears to have known his unit would be deployed, and repeatedly referred to himself for years with a rank he didn't have

https://abcnews.go.com/US/walz-previously-faced-criticism-characterized-military-service-records/story?id=112833386
 

In early 2016, Tim Walz sat down with CSPAN for a bipartisan discussion about his opposition to President Barack Obama's push to reduce troop levels overseas. To begin the panel, the host introduced Walz -- at the time in his fifth term as a U.S. representative -- in part by incorrectly outlining his military service.

"Enlisted in the Army National Guard at 17 and retired 24 years later as Command Sergeant Major," she said of Walz, "and served with his battalion in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan."

Walz nodded in agreement at that statement -- despite the fact that, according to military records and his own admission, he had never served in Afghanistan. ...

 

These inaccuracies, which at times went uncorrected, include Walz not denying the statement that he served in Afghanistan, and Walz repeatedly saying that he retired with a rank he achieved but did not retire with, as well as an instance in 2018 of Walz claiming that he carried weapons of war "in war," about which the Harris-Walz campaign said that he misspoke. ...


Walz appears to have been aware prior to his retirement that his unit was under consideration for deployment. ...

 

In the National Guard, Walz began serving as command sergeant major, a leadership position, in 2004, and was officially appointed to the role in April 2005, shortly before he retired from service, according to a statement from Army Col. Ruan Cochran. However Walz did not remain in the role long enough to keep the title in retirement.

Still, Walz repeatedly referred to himself as a "retired command sergeant major" for years.

-- ABC News

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

It's odd how Minnesota Public Radio News to this day says Tim Walz is a Command Sergeant Major and served in Afghanistan when neither is true


 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2006/11/08/1dist

Tim Walz is a conventional California lefty on immigration who rammed through his radical policies in Minnesota once Democrats got control of its legislature

Kamala Harris picked him because she went with her gut.

As the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz signed into law initiatives allowing immigrants in the country illegally to apply for driver’s licenses, qualify for free tuition at state universities and enroll in the state’s free healthcare program for low-income residents. Walz’s actions on immigration—nearly all taken in the last two years, when Democrats had control of the state Legislature—put him squarely in the mainstream of his party. ...

Allowing those without a legal immigration status to drive legally, go to college at in-state rates and enroll in health insurance are pieces of a two-decade project by Democrats ...

“He’s more in line with what we’re seeing in states across the country led by a Democrat,” said Victoria Francis, deputy director of state and local initiatives at the American Immigration Council, a liberal-leaning national advocacy organization.

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Tim Walz implies he stood at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan as a member of the national guard

 He didn't. He was in Congress when he did that, on January 9, 2008:

WALZ RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS TRIP INVESTIGATING MILITARY HEALTHCARE.

It's all so vivid in his mind on 9/11/2021 right? So vivid he puts Bagram in Iraq.

The period between the words "national guard. I stood" is 2005-2008.

His guard service ended in 2005. The Middle East trip was in January 2008.

 


 

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Rural Minnesota is not happy with Tim Walz, so he's ignoring them this year

 


As I said

 


36 Hamas Wing delegates and members to DNC convention in Chicago welcome "progressive" Tim Walz, call for mass demonstrations

“Vice President Kamala Harris has finally heeded the voices of thousands of pro-Palestinian delegates, activists and allies,” the Muslim Delegates & Allies Coalition said in a Thursday press release. “This decision highlights the importance of staying engaged with the political system and actively participating in the Democratic Party’s processes.”

To that end, “we encourage mass demonstrations at the Democratic National Committee this month to confront this foreign policy debacle,” said the organization. ...

“The progressive Tim Walz’s selection over Shapiro, following a weekend frenzy of social media activism and media campaigns, marks a significant setback for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,” the release said. “The American Muslim electorate demands an immediate and permanent cease-fire and arms embargo on Israel.”

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Jonathan Turley: The addition of Walz completes a perfect nightmare for free speech advocates

 Walz has shown not only a shocking disregard for free speech values but an equally shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment.

Walz went on MSNBC to support censoring disinformation and declared, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”

Ironically, this false claim, repeated by many Democrats, constitutes one of the most dangerous forms of disinformation. ...

The Supreme Court has consistently rejected the claim of Gov. Walz. For example, in the 2016 Matal v. Tam decision, the court stressed that this precise position “strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate.'” ...

In her failed 2020 presidential bid, Harris ran on censorship . . ..

President Biden is the most anti-free speech president since John Adams. ...

Democrats now have arguably the most anti-free speech ticket of a major party in more than two centuries.

 

The Hill