Posted on 05/30/2020 3:21:03 PM PDT by richardb72
The Minnesota Democratic leadership who created a "powder keg" of chaos in their state needs to be held accountable for their negligent policy, former Republican Congressman Jason Lewis urged Saturday.
In an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend" with host Pete Hegseth, Lewis said Minnesotans were left in a "state of shock" over the "total absence of leadership" in their cities.
The third night of protests over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, at the hands of a 48-year-old white Minneapolis Police Officer, Derek Chauvin, turned even more violent on Friday evening with rioters destroying police vehicles, setting businesses alight , police shooting rubber bullets at members of the media and using excessive force against those who stood in their way.
Chauvin was arrested on Friday afternoon, but it had been days after a video of Floyd's killing went viral.
On Saturday, however, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he had authorized "full mobilization" of the state's National Guard - something that has never been done in the 164-year history of the Minnesota National Guard. According to Walz, protests had devolved and the cause of those who took to the streets no longer had anything to do with Floyd's death.
"This has been a crisis in leadership the likes of which we have never seen in Minnesota," Lewis remarked. You know, a week and a half ago or so I said the idea of putting the infected in nursing homes under the COVID crisis -- we have the highest nursing home rate of fatalities in the country in Minnesota -- while quarantining the healthy and destroying Minnesota businesses was the largest policy blunder in history. I should have waited a week."....
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No mention here, is Lewis running for Senate.
I do believe I heard Thursday morning Public Radio reported people were busing in from Chicago and one other location I don’t remember. If that was the case in the first place, they should have been turned away because of the Corona virus.
Just my instinct, but now it’s too late, destruction is done and the outsiders are likely traveling home. The highways outbound should have had check points, and maybe they have, but I haven’t heard of that implemented.
I have no problem believing that this is *all* orchestrated *directly* from Rat Party Headquarters.
Yes. Multi-person primary is Aug. 11.
Lewis is running for US Senate.
This is the election to flip MINN with Trump, 2 to 3 House seats, Senate. Lewis has command of issues (sub’d for Rush) and the big 3 are handed to him late in election cycle where dimwit voters cannot be distracted much (nursing home death rate, job loss in lockdown, riots).
But you know an investigation will go no where.
Jason Lewis is correct. Wasn’t he a guest host on Rush before?
For a while yes.
He was also on at WBT in Charlotte and always great to listen to.
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