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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting op-ed (gifted link):

If Kamala Harris wanted to dispel the idea that Democrats are soft on crime, Tim Walz was an odd choice of running mate. Mr. Walz’s tenure as Minnesota’s governor will be defined by the George Floyd race riots in Minneapolis and his response to them. Americans everywhere still live with the consequences.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-walz-dithered-while-minneapolis-burned-kamala-harris-2020-riots-911b47eb?st=dd4l5wx7iwpfbyz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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So wait -- is Walz a soft guy who couldn't be trusted to be hardass enough to run the country, or is he a fascist dictator who ruled Minnesota with an iron fist during the riots? I can't remember. [/quote]

The point is, he was NOT tough with rioters in MN.  He called in the National Guard, but too late - much of the damage had already occurred. This is what he was doing in the interim between when Minneapolis Mayor Frey requested he send in the National Guard, and when he actually did (almost a full 24 hrs. later) - quizzing them about their DEI training:

At 6:30 p.m. the same day, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey asked Mr. Walz to activate the Minnesota National Guard. Mr. Frey followed up with a written request at 9:11 p.m. Mr. Walz didn’t respond until 4 p.m. the next day, when he signed an executive order activating 500 state soldiers. [b]In the interim, his staff had quizzed the Guard about its members’ DEI training and whether they had experience working with “diverse communities,”[/b] according to a report by a Minnesota Senate committee.

And then he virtue signaled his way through his excuses about the delay:

The problem Mr. Walz allegedly confronted was that the[b] “tools of restoring order are viewed by so many as the things that have oppressed and started the problem in the first place.” [/b]He spoke of “people who are concerned about that police presence of an overly armed camp in their neighborhoods that is not seen in communities where children of people who look like me run to the police, others have to run from.”

Mr. Walz’s skin color bore on his legitimacy as a decision-maker, he said: [b]“I will not patronize you as a white male without living those experiences of how difficult”[/b] it is to have a police force occupying one’s neighborhood. He described the riots themselves as a manifestation of systemic racism: “What the world has witnessed since the killing of George Floyd on Monday has been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand who we are and where we go from here.” [b]Mr. Walz imputed a sacramental quality to the looted and torched buildings: “The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard.”[/b]

I suggest anyone wanting to debate this read the entire piece, which is linked above.[/quote]

Wasn't DCUM the website where I read all about how he was having people potshotted on their porches, and his wife was something-about-the-smell-of-tires, and all that? I thought I was supposed to be mad at him for being too harsh.

What exactly is the party line, again? [/quote]

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