Newsmax Host Asks: ‘Is Governor Walz Running a State or a Terror Organization?’
Newsmax host David Harris Jr. asked on Tuesday whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was “running a state or a terror organization” after it was reported that the suspect in the shooting of State Representative Melissa Hortman and state Senator John Hoffman had ties to the governor.
Reacting to the arrest of suspect Vance Boelter – who was reappointed by Walz to the Minnesota Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019, after having previously been appointed by former governor Mark Dayton – Harris questioned, “What were his motives?”
He continued, “Well, just days before, state Representative Melissa Hortman, before she was killed, she voted no on Governor Tim Walz’s plan to give healthcare coverage to illegal aliens. After the vote, she seemed very noticeably afraid for her safety in a local news interview.”
Harris went on:
After voting against her own Democrat colleagues and against the agenda of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, she was killed, and her suspect, the killer, had close ties to the governor. Vance Boelter was appointed to the Minnesota Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Governor Walz himself, and earlier this year, a staffer for Governor Walz was arrested for vandalizing Teslas in Minnesota. So, is Governor Walz running a state or a terror organization? And does he bear any responsibility for his associates turning violent? I think he does.
A spokesperson for Walz’s office sought to distance the governor from Boelter on Tuesday, telling WCCO in a statement, “There are thousands of volunteers of all political persuasions who serve on hundreds of these boards. That particular board has over 60 people on it.”
The spokesperson insisted, “The Governor does not interview applicants for these roles and he does not know Boelter. They are not appointments to a position in the Governor’s cabinet. These boards and commissions have no authority to make decisions, change laws, or implement policies.”
Rep. Hortman and her husband were killed in the shootings on Saturday, while State Sen. Hoffman and his wife were injured.
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