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A former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is being sought by police in connection with the fatal shooting of a state lawmaker, according to reports. Police are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, sources told The New York Post. It comes after an assailant is thought to have impersonated a police officer when they entered the Champlin residence of Senator John Hoffman and his wife early Saturday, shooting both and leaving them critically injured. The shooter then proceeded to the...

Last year’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee has thrown himself into a robust atonement-and-explanation tour, though aides insist there is no grand strategy.Nearly seven months since his ticket lost the 2024 presidential election, Tim Walz is trying all at once to make amends for everything he thinks went wrong.He is going to Republican areas where Democrats lost ground. He is sitting for countless interviews after former Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign limited his media exposure. And as his party engages in collective finger-pointing, he is among the few Democrats admitting that they themselves made mistakes.“I know my job and I didn’t get...

Caitlyn Jenner threw shade at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the “masculine” failed vice presidential nominee bragged about how his manhood scares the MAGA faithful. “I am more ‘masculine’ than this [clown emoji] Gov Walz,” Jenner, 75, ribbed on X Wednesday in response to the governor’s bombast. Jenner, an Olympic gold-winning decathlete who came out as a transwoman in 2015, shared a clip from the Republican National Committee’s opposition research X account showcasing the governor’s braggadocio. Walz (D), 60, had crowed on the “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast about his masculinity and mused that conservatives are particularly intimidated by his...

Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said in a new interview on Tuesday that it’s been “pure hell” since his party lost the presidential election last November. Speaking with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the Minnesota governor was asked what advice he’d give to “average people” who oppose the agenda President Donald Trump has implemented since he returned to office. “You know that overused term, ‘The frog in the boiling water?’ We’ve been in the damn pot way too long,” Walz said. “I think it is speaking up. It’s thinking about your neighbors. It’s writing and putting those members of Congress...

The former mayor of a small town near the University of Maryland has been arrested on charges related to tens of thousands of child sex abuse images allegedly found in his possession, authorities said. Joel Biermann, who served as mayor of University Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 2022 to 2024, was taken into custody from his home on Monday by the FBI, local police revealed to 7News on Wednesday. (warning - disturbing material)

Ohio Senator JD Vance is being attacked for his military record after he criticized that of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the recently announced running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris. Speaking to reporters in Michigan on Wednesday, Donald Trump's running mate accused Walz of "stolen valor," of having "lied" about serving in a war and of "abandoning" his unit...... Vance himself served in the Marine Corps for four years, and he also never saw combat. He worked as a combat correspondent in Iraq between August 2005 and February 2006. The senator has now been widely condemned for attacking Walz's military...

Twitter thread with source material (ammendment and video of official meetings) about H. F. No. 1655.