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

NYPost ^ | 8/11/24 | By Steven Vago and Chris Nesi

[CFW]

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, 52, told The Post.

“I had to leave the state to be able to legally work and make a living.”

She opened the Outpost Bar and Grill in Bay City, Wisc. in March 2022 after she said she was stripped of her licenses to operate Alibi Drinkery in Lakeville and Froggy Bottoms River Pub and Lily PADio in Northfield.

The new location is a solid hour drive from her home in Rosemont, Minn.

“I didn’t even know the name of our governor until he shut our state down,” said Zarza, a mother of three and grandmother of two who’s lived in Minnesota since she was seven years old.

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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.

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KEYWORDS: businesses; covid; minnesota; walz

[CFW]

Walz cared nothing for the lives and businesses he destroyed with his Covid policies. America doesn't need a dictator such as Walz as Vice-President.

[NWFree]

Typical libtard - stepping in the little people

[Sacajaweau]

What about the landlords who weren’t getting their rent.

[Aria]

Heard him talk for the first time the other day…. Sounds like a total A-Hole!!!!

Wtf is wrong with Minnesota??