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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s definitely not the squeaky clean candidate the Harris campaign would like you to believe:

“I'm not saying that Walz lies, precisely," Parker wrote in an op-ed headlined, "Tim Walz isn't exactly what he seems." "But he tends to gild his résumé for political gain."

“Waltz  has been forced to defend a number of controversies that have emerged following Vice President Harris' announcement that he would be her running mate. In particular, Walz has had to explain his record in the National Guard and his 2006 congressional campaign's statements on his 1995 drunk driving incident.”

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Walz, then a 31-year-old high school teacher, was clocked at 96 mph in a 55-mph zone in Nebraska," Parker wrote. "He was pulled over by a state trooper, who, upon smelling alcohol, asked Walz to take a field sobriety test, which he failed. Walz then submitted to a hospital for a blood test, which revealed his blood alcohol level to be 0.128, well above the state's legal limit."

“While that info is verifiable by police records, Walz's 2006 congressional campaign staff told the press that the candidate was not drinking and actually failed to understand the police officer's directions because of hearing loss, blaming an injury relating to his time in the National Guard.”

“Morning show softballs may give comfort to the ill-prepared, but they deny viewers the content they need to be better-informed voters," Parker wrote. "Nothing about the pair's first (taped) interview Thursday night, with CNN's Dana Bash, satisfied that imperative. Although Harris handled the interview relatively well, Walz seemed to be a mixed-up mess."

https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-gilded-record-political-161023402.html[/quote]

The rest of us knew that weeks ago. Remember GW who said when he was young and stupid he did stupid things?

"On September 4, 1976, Bush was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol near his family's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. He pled guilty, was fined US$150, and had his driving license in the state briefly suspended." 
GW would have been 29 or 30 at the time (born in 1946)

Someone should have fact checked the claim Walz was over the limit. It wasn't until 1998 that .08 was made the national legal standard (which was up to states to adopt) , and I recall it being .15 in the mid-80s in Minnesota. I haven't found what the limit was in 1996, but Nebraska didn't pass the .08 limit until 2001. 
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