Minnesota bar owner says ‘evil’ Tim Walz forced her into bankruptcy with COVID closures, $300K in legal bills

New York Post ^ | Aug. 11, 2024 | Steven Vago and Chris Nesi

[george76]

A former Minnesota bar owner who now commutes two hours a day to sling suds in neighboring Wisconsin said Gov. Tim Walz’s restrictive pandemic-era lockdowns in the state “decimated” local businesses — and caused financial ruin for those who stood up for their livelihoods.

“I think he’s an evil man who overstepped his role as the governor. He took small businesses and ripped them up. He destroyed us,” Lisa Zarza.

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She said when shelter-in-place and business closures first went into effect in March, 2020, “I did everything I was supposed to do. I wore my mask, I social distanced. I stayed at home.”

But as the months wore on and the state slowly reopened, salons, bars and restaurants remained under Walz’s closure orders — which weren’t completely lifted statewide until May of 2021.

By October, 2020, Zarza and a cohort of fellow bar owners had had enough and decided to defy the order.

“I stood up because he stripped us of our rights. It was a discrimination against certain groups of people and we were one of them. He didn’t have a right to do what he did to us,” she fumed.

But the short-lived uprising by local restaurateurs was swiftly crushed by Walz’s regime.

“I was threatened with arrests, I was threatened with fines. At the end of the entire lawsuit, my lawsuit including Attorney General fees was over $300,000. I filed personal bankruptcy,” she said.

Meanwhile, it was business as usual around much of the state, the bar owner raged.

“Everything else, literally Target, Walmart, Home Depot. Everyone was open 100 percent. The same exact order that shut us down, opened them all up,” Zarza recalled.

“He took away rights from the American people and from Minnesotans that he did not have a right to take.”

[cpdiii]

You’re going to have 19 year olds who are cooks in some cases.

19 year old kids died on Omaha beach, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. A few were cooks but most were combat infantry soldiers. Walz is a Piece of Adam Schiff.

[Beowulf9]

This has happened to me on here as well.

[minnesota_bound]

Watch the ad. This could also be about any democrat governor like Gavin Newsom.

Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
@mtgreenee
This is the best ad I’ve seen so far and it’s how most people feel about Democrat authoritarianism during Covid.

What Tim Walz did to Minnesota is the same thing Kamala Harris did as VP.

Democrats are communists.

Nov 5th is FREEDOM vs COMMUNISM.
https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1822245062564094048

[Kid Shelleen]

anarcho-tyranny -
When “the law is powerless to help you, but it can still harm you.”
When the state stops upholding its end of the social contract to use its monopoly on violence for its own ends.