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   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2024-09-16, useapen  wrote:   
   > Minnesotans are proud of their state, and there’s a lot of understandable   
   > excitement here surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of our   
   > governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate. During his first term as governor   
   > and time representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District in   
   > Washington, the then-moderate and sensible Walz was held in high regard,   
   > even by many Republicans such as me.   
   >   
   > But in 2020, motivated to get the national attention he has now attained,   
   > Gov. Walz tacked hard to the political portside. The strategy clearly   
   > worked well careerwise for him, but it has been a disaster for the once-   
   > thriving Land of 10,000 Lakes.   
   >   
   > Walz faced his first major leadership test during the riots that ensued in   
   > Minneapolis and St. Paul after the police killing of George Floyd. To say   
   > Walz failed is generous. I lived in downtown Minneapolis at the time and   
   > watched as our beautiful city burned for days without a response from our   
   > state’s chief executive. Only after some $500 million in damage and   
   > countless businesses destroyed did Walz call in the National Guard to   
   > restore order. That impotent response — which sent a message to Minnesota   
   > criminals that they can do as they please — has had a lasting impact on   
   > the Twin Cities, which remain plagued by crime and shells of what they   
   > once were.   
   >   
   > Thanks to ineffective GOP candidates at the top of our ticket here in   
   > 2022, Walz was reelected, with Democrats taking complete control of   
   > Minnesota’s House and Senate by thin margins for the first time in years.   
   > Although he ran promising moderation during his second term on the theme   
   > of “One Minnesota,” Walz governed like California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a   
   > flannel shirt.   
   >   
   > Walz and his Democratic allies in the state legislature spent the state’s   
   > entire $18 billion surplus in 2023, increasing the state budget by an   
   > unsustainable 40%. And while Minnesota has never been particularly   
   > friendly to private enterprise and taxpayers, Walz pushed through a   
   > panoply of progressive business regulations that have made the North Star   
   > State economically uncompetitive. As a result, just like in California,   
   > Minnesota is seeing an exodus of residents and business investment.   
   > Minnesota’s loss of residents in 2022 and 2023 was more severe than 34 out   
   > of 50 other states. And according to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce,   
   > from 2020 through 2022, Minnesota-based companies invested about $10.6   
   > billion in projects outside of the state while corporations headquartered   
   > elsewhere invested just $4 billion here, leaving a $6.6 billion “net   
   > investment deficit” that hinders Minnesota’s economic growth. Walz has   
   > never owned or worked in a private business, and it shows.   
   >   
   > Walz has also pushed culturally transformative and extreme legislation   
   > that would make California liberals blush. A hallmark of his legislative   
   > efforts was the evisceration of parental rights on multiple sensitive   
   > issues. Walz eliminated all parental notification laws regarding abortion;   
   > parents of a pregnant 15-year-old can be left completely in the dark about   
   > even high-risk abortion procedures, which Walz helped legalize — without   
   > restriction — up to the ninth month of pregnancy. He also enacted   
   > legislation making Minnesota a refuge for children from other states who   
   > can come here to receive on-demand puberty blockers, hormone therapies and   
   > irreversible sex-change surgeries — even over the objections of a parent.   
   >   
   > Harris’ largest liability is that she’s too liberal for America’s center-   
   > right electorate. In her attempt to win the presidency in 2020, she said a   
   > lot of wild things chronicled well on social media. By picking the far-   
   > left Walz as her running mate, she is signaling to the nation that she   
   > meant them.   
   >   
   > Andy Brehm resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is a corporate attorney.   
   >   
   > https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/08/12/opinion-tim-walz-minnesota-   
   > liberal-record/   
      
   And should the Harris/Walz ticket win the type of destruction that Minnesota   
   is enduring will be   
   coming to a town near you.   
      
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