Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Doubles Down on Pardon of Convicted Child Rapist

FOXNews.com:

After Democrat Tim Walz doubled down on his move to pardon a foreign child rapist prior to his deportation, the State Department took another swing at the Minnesota governor in an escalating back-and-forth. 

 

The Minnesota Board of Pardons, comprised of Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted clemency to Laotian national Tou Lue Vang, 42, on June 10. Vang was scheduled to be deported from the United States before the pardon. "Governor Walz’s pardon of a convicted foreign sex offender was a grave and unconscionable betrayal of the very people he is supposed to defend," State Department Assistant Secretary Dylan Johnson told Fox News Digital. 

 

"Walz’s plot to sacrifice the safety of Americans on the altar of open borders was thwarted by Secretary Rubio. Now this foreign criminal will never harm another American," he continued. Vang was convicted for repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, and told authorities after he was arrested that "it is a cultural thing... to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Vang's visa earlier this month, and he was deported back to Laos.

What a jackass and yet another example of why the Harris/Walz ticket failed so miserably against Trump in the last presidential election. Instead of taking a common sense approach to handling crime and punishment, woke loons like Walz turn a blind eye and put criminals first instead of victims. Indeed, in this case Walz's argument for pardoning a man who repeatedly abused a 10yo girl reeks of emphathy...for the rapist ('Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?') with zero mindfullness to understand that being a serial rapist means that you didn't just have 'one worst day' but several. And oh yeah, deporting an illegal immigrant/child sex abuser does make us safer. To be willfully ignorant of that is everything wrong with today's Democrat party.

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Tim Walz Votes To Pardon Convicted Sexual Abuser Facing Deportation

FOXNews.com:

Minnesota officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, last month pardoned an illegal immigrant who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and who was slated to be deported. 

 

With the recommendation of the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC), the Minnesota Board of Pardons — led by Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — granted a pardon for Laos national Tou Lue Vang, 42, at its June 10 meeting, according to a letter informing Vang of the decision from Carli Stark, the executive director of the state CRC. 

 

The pardon essentially gives Vang a clean slate. "Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction," Stark wrote in her letter to Vang.

Apparently the victim’s forgiveness was a key factor in the pardon of Vang. But with white liberals, since Trump took ofiice again, showing so much empathy towards illegal immigrants and hatred for ICE agents, you had to know that a total dolt like Walz would find some way to pardon this creep and not give a damn about the backlash when you consider that he's not running for re-election.

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Supreme Court Allows States to Bar Boys from Playing in Girls’ Sports

NYTimes.com:

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld two state laws barring the participation of transgender female athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams. The court’s 6-to-3 ruling deals with laws from West Virginia and Idaho but has implications for the 25 other states with similar restrictions, and for athletes who compete in school and collegiate sports nationwide. 

The Trump administration, which backed the state bans, has targeted the participation of transgender athletes in sports amid a national rollback of rights for transgender people. President Trump directed federal agencies last year to withdraw funding from schools that allow transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports. 

The cases attracted intense public interest, with Olympians and other elite athletes watching closely and submitting legal briefs in support of each side. In March, the International Olympic Committee barred transgender athletes from competing in the women’s category of the Olympics and said that all participants in those events must undergo genetic testing. The N.C.A.A. announced last year that it would bar trans women from competing in women’s sports.

Nice to see common sense win out here, but damn if this isn't still dangerous political time. And that's because three, liberal Supreme Court justices threw fairness aside and sided with the "transgender boy". Unbelievable, but to be expected from a far-Left cult based more on ideology and identity politics than anything else. And with an msm that's gone so far-Left that they're even adopting radical terms like "sex assigned at birth", the red flags have long been posted for what may be coming down the line the next time we have a Democrat President.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Ends Reelection Bid Amid Child-Care Fraud Scandal

CBS.com:

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, announced Monday that he would drop his bid for reelection as governor, saying that he would not be able to give a campaign all of his attention as he works to defend Minnesota against allegations of fraud and right-wing attacks -- including from President Donald Trump.

"In September, I announced that I would run for a historic third term as Minnesota's Governor. And I have every confidence that, if I gave it my all, I would succeed in that effort," Walz wrote in a statement Monday.

"But as I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all. Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can't spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences."

This is great news because Tim Walz really is a jackass. Remember that Kamala Harris only selected Walz (as opposed to PA Gov Josh Shapiro) for her running mate in 2024 because she didn't want a straight white male VP candidate who could overshadow her on the campaign trial, much less a running mate with any Presidential ambitions. And like the dolt that he is Walz played the part well, stating that he was there to 'code talk to white guys' so they'd be comfortable voting for Harris, agreeing to avoid the media because Kamala's handlers said so and of course, using identity politics every step of the way during the few times he was allowed to speak. But then too Walz was also really bad for Minnesota. There was the ongoing fraud scandal that he played a huge part in (and which the msm failed to do any vetting at the time), he was also a covid tyrant esp. when it came to masking and social distancing and he never took accountability for anything, esp. when it came to wasteful spending of taxpayer money. Good riddance.

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Trump Administration Freezes Minnesota Child Care Funds Over Fraud Allegations

MSN.com:

The US Department of Health and Human Services says it has frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota, as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigate allegations of fraud, including at child care centers, in the latest show of federal force in the state — home to the country’s largest Somali population. 

Deputy Secretary of HHS Jim O’Neill announced the funding freeze on X Tuesday, weeks after ICE launched operations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to specifically target undocumented Somali immigrants, precipitated by revelations about widespread fraud against the state as well as President Donald Trump’s comments that he “doesn’t want” Somalis in the country. 

The stepped-up effort also comes days after YouTube content creator Nick Shirley, who has created anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim videos in the past, posted a viral video in which he claimed to find widespread fraud at Somali-run child care centers. The video, which includes limited evidence for the creator’s allegations, has received more than 2.5 million views on YouTube as of Wednesday and was retweeted by Vice President JD Vance and former Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk.

You really can’t overstate how poorly the media has handled this situation, though their response is entirely predictable. As surely as night follows day, they’ve resorted to race-baiting because the alleged fraud involves Somali individuals, focused their attacks more on independent journalist Nick Shirley than on the fraud itself, and run cover for Democrats at every turn (driven, as usual, by their hostility towards the GOP) while inevitably finding a way to blame Trump. But if Shirley continues to stick to the facts, ignores partisan noise from both sides, and practices real, genuine journalism, he’ll be doing a real service to Minnesota taxpayers who are exhausted by this ongoing mess in their own backyard (and he may well deal a serious blow to Gov. Tim Walz’s chances of reelection in Minnesota or any future presidential ambitions).

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The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose...Because He's Gay

TheAtlantic.com:

As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man. 

 

Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in a passage of her soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that I saw. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.” 

 

"And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.” 

 

Harris instead selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and the two went on to lose to Donald Trump. Her honest recounting of that decision—much more candid than I usually see in political memoirs—highlights one of the core challenges facing Democrats, especially as they try to refocus their message ahead of the next presidential election, in 2028. After years of highlighting and celebrating the historic characteristics of their nominees

Buttigieg, Walz, whoever, it doesn't matter who Kamala picked as her running mate because she still would've lost to Trump. Why? Because she is and was always an empty suit, she campaigned with the likes of Liz Cheney, she never cared about working-class voters, she overplayed January 6th, she avoided tons of interviews on the campaign trail like a plague because she can't speak clearly without a script or in a non-friendly atmospheres, she was a DEI hire for VP to begin with who covered for Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity, she was horrible on border control, she had no Black agenda and that laugh was hated by any and everyone.

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