Photo courtesy Tim Walz For Governor
8-8-2024 (updated 8-14-2024)
Do I know Tim Walz?
No I don’t personally know Governor Tim Walz, but I certainly know his type. Tim comes from a family of immigrants and his first job was in a factory building tanning beds.
Tim graduated from Butte High School Class of ’82.
Tim obtained his Bachelor of Science in Social Science from Chadron State College in ’89. After college Tim took a one-year teaching position with WorldTeach in China in 1989.
Tim began teaching and coaching in Alliance, Nebraska in 1990.
Tim became a geography teacher and a football coach at Mankato West High School in Mankato,
Minnesota 1994 – 2006.
Walz 24-years of honorable military service (1981 – 2005)
Private Tim Walz joined the Army National Guard at age 17 in 1981 and completed 24 years of service.
On 18 September 2001, just days after 9/11 Walz re-enlisted for 6-years in the Minnesota Army National Guard. Walz rose to the rank of master sergeant and was appointed the unit’s top enlisted soldier the Command Sergeant Major. His service obligation would have been completed as of 18 September 2007 but Sergeant Walz failed his obligation to his men, his unit and to the US Army when he failed to complete the Sergeants Majors Academy or serve the required two years after his being appointed command sergeant major.
We are led to believe that Sergeant Walz simply quit the army in 2005 retiring as a Master Sergeant to pursue his political ambitions two years prior to his enlistment ending, which led to a vacancy in unit leadership that required someone else come take his place during the unit’s 22 month tour in Iraq (2006-2007).
As the senior noncommissioned officer in the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, Command Sergeant Major Walz was the chief advisor to the commander on the unit’s enlisted members and charged with the responsibility to ensure they are properly trained and prepared for combat duty overseas, should the need arise.
Sergeant Walz did serve a long and honorable career, with assignments in Italy during Operation Enduring Freedom; Arkansas, Texas, the Arctic Circle, New Ulm, Minnesota and elsewhere.
FALSELY REPRESENTED: It is when representative/governor Tim Walz falsely represented portions of his military service specifically saying on several occasions and on his congressional challenge coin that he is a retired command sergeant major in the Guard, (which is not true) during political speeches. Soldiers who knew and served with him have conflicting remembrances of serving with him as noted here and here.
Military positions such as Command Sergeant Major are appointed, while enlisted pay grades (CSM = E-9) are through promotion. One can be selected and wear the rank of the position without being promoted, however promotions have certain requirements to be fulfilled before the promotion is made a permanent record for retirement.
Walz Political Record
Volunteered for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign
District coordinator of Vets for Kerry
US Representative 2007 – 2019, 110th – 114th Congress, Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, raise minimum wage, for stem cell research, allow Medicare to negotiate pharmaceutical prices, supported pay-as-you-go budget rules, requiring new spending or tax changes not add to the federal deficit, voted to advance Affordable Care Act out of the House
Governor Minnesota 2019 – Present
During the summer riots and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis it was Governor Walz who did not send in the National Guard to stop the looting or protect civilians under siege and it wasn’t until 3 days later after he questioned the National Guard’s “D.E.I. training” did he send in troops (saying they were only 19 year old cooks and clerks). Had he not previously been their highest enlisted soldier before he was a politician?
Yes it was Governor Walz who supported rioters tearing down historical statues saying it was their right not to be offended in their democracy. CRAZY!
During the COVID lockdowns it was Governor Walz who locked down churches and businesses and created a SNITCH LINE for neighbors to report neighbors for breaking lockdown rules.
Presumptive Democratic VP Nominee 2024
Governor Walz is one of the never-trumpers who feel his way is the only way to fix America and claims Trump will take us back……(to what?)
Governor Walz has teamed up with VP Harris (who helped bailout 2020 rioters) and wants to radically change America from the Constitutional-Republic our nation was created to be.
I can say yes I know Tim Walz type, he is a typical democratic politician who angles himself for the best possible outcome for himself while selling his wares as the working man’s politician. There is this story of the old west and the US Government’s Indian Agent who would cut off 6” from the top of a blanket and sew it on the bottom and say it was a longer blanket.
That is Governor Tim Walz in a nutshell. – RTM
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