Posted on 08/22/2024 11:20:41 AM PDT by lightman
"Because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business!" Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) declared during his acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. He was, of course, referring to the killing of unborn babies.
"In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: mind your own damn business."
Is that why Walz encouraged Minnesotans to snitch on their neighbors during the… pic.twitter.com/NPEIjwY5Z1 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 22, 2024
Flashback to four years ago when Walz was a COVID-19 tyrant.
As governor of Minnesota, he set up a hotline for residents to report on one another, catching those who committed the cardinal sin of violating his COVID-19 mandates. Walz refused to take down the tattletale line, which alerted authorities to suspicions of non-compliance with Walz's draconian lockdown measures, when asked to do so.
Republican state Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka was one of the local leaders publicly calling on Walz to scrap the Big Brother-esque monitoring. "It's not necessary and it's not how Minnesotans want to treat each other. We can all show a bit of kindness to our neighbors as we manage our times and needs differently in the stay at home efforts," Gazelka wrote on X.
Please take this hotline down @GovTimWalz. It's not necessary and it's not how Minnesotans want to treat each other. We can all show a bit of kindness to our neighbors as we manage our times and needs differently in the stay at home efforts.https://t.co/ljYttFaF9m #mnelg — Paul Gazelka (@paulgazelka) March 31, 2020
Walz directly responded to Gazelka's request at a press conference, claiming that the hotline was a tool to "educate" each other about his stay-at-home executive order, according to the Minnesota Reformer.
"We simply want to let people be able to call and let folks know," Walz retorted. "It's for their own good. If we see people that may not be as informed on this, it's an educational piece."
"We're not going to take down a phone number that people can call to keep their families safe," Walz added.
Walz's directive granted him the power to fine or jail purported violators. For failing to abide by Walz's social distancing rules, violations carried a punishment of up to a $1,000 fine or a 90-day jail sentence.
"I urge all Minnesotans to voluntarily comply with this Executive Order," Walz wrote. Anyone who "willfully violate[d]" it was "guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days," he ordered.
In early April 2020, since the start of Walz's snitching system, the state received approximately 500 reports of "suspected violations" of Walz's statewide protocols. The top type of reporting was grumblings about businesses that remained open when they "should [have been] closed."
Bars and restaurants that violated Walz's guidelines ordering their closure faced criminal and civil penalties for continuing on-site sale operations. Businesses that didn't comply were reported to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Alcohol Gambling Enforcement Division, and law enforcement was dispatched to investigate such complaints.
During a daily pandemic briefing in late March 2020, Walz was displeased with a number of residents refusing to stay home and maintain social distancing after he observed his constituents congregating outside to enjoy the warmer weather. "We're seeing crowds that are a little too big, especially around the lakes," Walz said of the outdoor gatherings.
Walz also actually defended — in fact, he was one of the foremost defenders — the disastrous nursing home policies that sent sick COVID-19 patients to elderly care facilities. A practitioner of this fatal policy, Walz insisted it was "not a mistake" to mingle the infected with such a susceptible population as senior citizens, reported The Park Rapids Enterprise, a Minnesota-based news outlet.
"I think it's important to remember these are folks that went to the hospital, they recovered, but they're still in that mode, and they're going back to their home, and this is where they live," Walz said. "The rest of us, we may self-isolate, but where are we going to put [these] people?"
Claiming that "this was federal guidance," Walz doubled down. "This was what everyone was doing. This was not a mistake. It wasn't like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this."
This despite around May 2020, approximately 81 percent (749 fatalities) of the state's COVID-related deaths came from long-term care settings, the highest of any state, according to a research non-profit's analysis.
The policy is now scrubbed from the state government's website.
"Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to congregate living facilities," the policy stipulated, according to an archive acquired via the Wayback Machine, reported Fox News.
"It is the recommendation of [the Minnesota Department of Health] that patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 can be discharged when clinically indicated and neither discontinuation of transmission-based precautions nor the establishment of two negative COVID-19 tests is required prior to hospital discharge," the advisory continued.
Light him up with the pepper ball guns. Payback should be direct hits on both eyes.
They’re such shameless hypocrites. It’s all “women have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies” (rapturous applause)... I don’t remember them having much use for bodily autonomy when it came to trying to mandate their dangerous, ineffective covid vaxxes.
They only want below the belt bodily autonomy.
Exactly, and does the baby get a choice?! I didn’t think so.
From the guy that sent police into the streets and force people into their homes during covid.
So much for minding your own business.
Is there ANYTHING Dems don’t lie about?
Nope. Demonrats will say and do anything to get and keep power, even lying about it. They are untrustworthy and undeserving of power.
Walz only minds his own business when it involves his life. Otherwise Walz is all in on the government meddling in your life: masks, DEI, taxes, trannys, homos, guns, magazines, concealed carry, mandates, etc.
He puts on the faux tough guy demeanor: mind your own damn business. In reality Walz wants to meddle in your life and control and tax you, and even force you to worship dead thugs like George "Lipscomb" Floyd.
Ask that cafe-owning granny that ASSistant coach Walz put in jail for not following the COVID “laws”.
Yup; No tampering with Tampon Timmy’s lockdown regime.
“women have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies”
This tissue DNA only has about a 50% match to your DNA.
He also wants taxpayers to fund abortions. I pay taxes and that is my business.
So, then:
Is it a violation of the FACE Act to take pictures on public property without restricting access to said trailer/facilities and posting those pictures in the public domain?
Asking for a friend. Just minding my own business and doing a public service. /s
Oh, and “it’s for the children.” /s/s
“I urge all Minnesotans to voluntarily comply with this Executive Order,” Walz wrote. Anyone who “willfully violate[d]” it was “guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days,” he ordered.
Laws have to be passed through the legislature, tyrant.
War criminal, along with several other Democrat governors of the period. Trials. Executions when found guilty.
Walz was hard on the taxpayers. But he allowed Somali thieves to steal $250 million.
Judge Warned Tim Walz to Stop His Lying About $250 Million Fraud by Minnesota Somalis
A nonpartisan watchdog found Walz’s DOE failed to conduct proper oversight over the program.
Breitbart ^ | 8-7-2024 | Tim Moran
Posted on 8/18/2024, 9:27:13 AM by dennisw
Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann in 2022 admonished Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for making “inaccurate” and “false” statements in claiming he forced the governor to continue making payments to the scandal-ridden Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which is at the center of a scheme to steal $250 million from a coronavirus-era welfare program.
Breitbart News reported about how Gov. Walz’s lax oversight of a federal food aid program led to dozens of Somali migrants stealing $250 million for a program meant for children in need. In September 2022, the Justice Department charged 47 Somali immigrants in Minnesota with stealing $250 million from a coronavirus relief program meant to feed needy children. Only $50 million has been recovered as of June.
Breitbart News reported: The Somali scheme involved the 47 defendants, whom prosecutors say created an umbrella group called “Feeding Our Future” and then created numerous sub-groups that were advertised as bringing food to needy children during the pandemic. The accused Somalis allegedly used the fraudulent groups to file for relief funding at mosques across Gov Walz’s Minnesota. Once they obtained the funding, they reported feeding thousands of children every day and supplied rosters of non-existent children to the government to show their outreach.
One such fraudulent feeding center was so brazen that it just copied all the names from a website called listofrandomnames.com and sent that list to federal authorities to claim that it fed the people on the list, prosecutors said.
An audit by a nonpartisan watchdog found that Walz’s Dept of Education failed to conduct proper oversight over the program. Walz has claimed that he was forced to continue making payments to Feeding Our Future, which Guthmann strongly slapped down in a statement. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
doj.gov
The thieving Somalis colluded to recruit other Somalis to open
phony Child Nutrition Program sites throughout Walz’s Minnesota.
<><>They fraudulently claimed 1000’s of children a day were being fed
<><>brazenly, within just days or weeks of being formed, the Somalis were feeding kids.
<><>they created dozens of phony shell companies to steal tax dollars from the federal program
<><>phony shell companies received and laundered $250 million fraudulent proceeds
<><>they falsified govt documents to get their hands on tax dollars
<><>fraudulent data ‘documented’ the number of children and meals served
<><>false invoices ‘documented’ phony purchases of food served to phantom children
<><>fake attendance rosters listed phantom names and ages of children being fed
<><>Somalis fabricated and created fake names from “www.listofrandomnames.com” web site
<><>federal tax dollars only reimbursed for meals served to children,
<><>so the conniving Somalis used Excel to falsify the ages on the rosters.
Despite knowing the claims were fraudulent, the Somali’s phony, “Feeding Our Future,” submitted fraudulent claims and then disbursed the fraudulently obtained $250 million Federal Child Nutrition Program tax funds to the individuals and entities colluding in the scheme.
<><>sponsors of the fraudulent participation in the program, “Feeding Our Future” received more than $18 million in “administrative fees” to which it was not entitled.
<><>In addition to administrative fees, “Feeding Our Future” fraudsters colluded to solicit and receive bribes and kickbacks from individual Somalis and companies sponsored by “Feeding Our Future.”
<><>Many of these kickbacks were paid in cash or disguised as “consulting fees” paid to shell companies created by Feeding Our Future employees to make them appear legitimate.
The thieving Somalis went on high-end spending sprees purchasing luxury cars and property.
Walz, willing to kill off babies and former cat owners
Tampon Timmy the Tyrant.
I’m slightly curious to see if the hotline number is still active…..
“...we’ve got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business!”
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