As soon as Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate against former President Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance, a forgotten history about Walz resurfaced.
A paid letter sent to a newspaper in 2018 said Governor Walz suddenly retired from the Minnesota National Guard to avoid deployment to Iraq, and his daughter Hope leaked National Guard plans on Twitter during the 2020 Floyd disinformation riots. Minnesota Governor Gwen Walz's comments about the riots have also been controversial: Governor Walz allowed rioters to burn down 1,000 businesses and a police station.
All that aside, he's the quintessential modern-day Crazy Democrat. Last year, he signed a bill making Minnesota a “sanctuary” for children who have been brainwashed into thinking they need “gender-reassignment medical care.”
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The letter, written to the West Central Tribune, was blunt, accusing Waltz of cowardice, dereliction of duty and exaggeration of his military record.
Two master sergeants, Thomas Berens and Paul Hare, wrote that Waltz was selected for the master sergeant position after returning from a deployment to Italy in 2004.
According to the pair's accounts, Waltz “was photographed holding a sign during a protest outside a Bush campaign rally in southern Minnesota” on August 5 of that year, but was “conditionally promoted to master sergeant” on September 17. If he did not meet the conditions for promotion, he would lose his rank.
Waltz did lose his spot, but for good reason.
In early 2005, warning orders were issued for his unit, the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, to prepare for active duty for deployment to Iraq.
On May 16, 2005, he resigned, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its soldiers in limbo as they prepared for war without a senior NCO. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire to run for Congress. This was false, as Department of Defense directives allowed him to run and seek permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty, which many reservists did. If he had retired normally and respectfully, one would think that his retirement papers would have been properly filled out and signed, and he would have been demoted to Sergeant Major for dropping out of military academy. Instead, he waited for the papers to catch up with him. His official retirement papers read, “Soldiers not allowed to sign.”
Waltz was demoted to sergeant.
“The conclusion of all this is heartbreaking and sad to explain,” they wrote. “In response to the call of the people, he has resigned. … He has let down his country. He has let down his state. He has let down the Minnesota Army National Guard, 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, and his fellow Soldiers. And he has failed to lead by example. It is disgraceful.”
A biography on the governor's website says he retired as a master sergeant.
Don't worry, the guards won't come.
Adding to the bad news is a tweet by George Floyd's daughter Hope during the riots that followed after Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose in the custody of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
On May 27th, a Twitter user posted the following message:
URGENT: Protesters, leave immediately. National Guard and SWAT are on the way. They will be arriving shortly and will be using city buses to arrest everyone/as many as possible. Everyone leave.
Hope, the Governor's daughter, knows something you don't: the guards aren't on their way.
“At the protest sites, there is a lot of misinformation spreading further fear and confusion,” she wrote.
The Guard cannot be deployed within minutes. They come from all over the state and it takes time. To be clear, the National Guard will not be deployed tonight.
Just because someone asks for something doesn't mean it's going to happen right away, or even in the first place. I don't know about SWAT, but I do know that the security guards aren't going to be arresting people tonight.
After Hope wrote those words, rioters burned down the police station, the New York Post reported.
The state Senate committee report aptly noted the leaking of secrets: Walz “allowed his adult daughter access to classified information, which she then disseminated to the public and the mob.”
The governor's wife seemed completely unfazed by the widespread destruction that caused $500 million in damage.
“The whole country and the world was paying attention to what we did in Minnesota in the wake of Mr. Floyd's death,” Gwen Waltz said in an interview with ABC affiliate KTSP5.
We also had sleepless nights during the riots. We could smell the burning tires. It was just so real. I had the window open as much as I could because it felt like a touchstone of what was going on.
Gender Surgery Tourism
But the governor's failure to stop the rioters and his subsequent standoff while they burned down a police station is likely not the only campaign issue for Trump and Vance.
Last April, Governor Walz signed the so-called Transgender Refuge Bill, which “protects the right” of “transgender” children to receive “gender-affirming medical care,” which is left-wing slang for giving children cross-sex hormones and mutilating them in “sex-affirming” surgery.
If a child comes to Minnesota from a sane state where poisoning or amputation is prohibited, the law allows doctors to poison or amputate the child.
H/T: Newsweek , National Review
