Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is going through one other accusation of misrepresenting his background after a Nebraska Chamber of Commerce letter from 2006 resurfaced amid Walz’s marketing campaign for vp.
When Walz first ran for Congress in Minnesota, he touted on his marketing campaign web site that he obtained an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce in 1993 for his work with the enterprise neighborhood, in response to a 2006 article from the Submit Bulletin.
He by no means obtained such an award, nevertheless, which was outlined to him in a blistering letter from the then-president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, Barry L. Kennedy.
“We researched this matter and might verify that you haven’t been the recipient of any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” the letter addressed to Walz on Nov. 1, 2006, reads.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz takes the stage on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago, Aug. 21, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
“I’m not going to attract a conclusion about your intentions by together with this line in your biography. Nonetheless, we respectfully request that you just take away any reference to our group because it could possibly be thought of an endorsement of your candidacy. It needs to be identified, nevertheless, that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed your opponent, Congressman Gil Gutknecht, for his assist of small enterprise points,” Kennedy continued.
The letter was unearthed by Minnesota outlet Alpha Information final week, after the controversy gained traction regionally in 2006.
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The Submit Bulletin, a Minnesota newspaper primarily based in Rochester, reported in 2006 that Walz’s congressional marketing campaign up to date its web site to mirror Walz didn’t win a Nebraska Chamber of Commerce award, however had received an award from the Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce, often known as the Jaycees. The then-campaign supervisor handed off the problem as a “typographical error,” the outlet reported on the time.
When approached by Fox Digital in regards to the 2006 controversy, the Harris-Walz marketing campaign mentioned Walz continuously speaks “overtly and off the cuff.”
“Governor Walz speaks the best way actual individuals converse – overtly and off the cuff. The American individuals respect that Gov. Walz tells it like it’s and would not speak like a politician, they usually respect the distinction between somebody who often misspeaks and a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” the marketing campaign mentioned.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her operating mate, Gov. Tim Walz, maintain a marketing campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aug. 20, 2024. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
The declare follows a protracted historical past of individuals accusing Walz of misrepresenting himself and his historical past, most notably a bevy of veterans accusing the Gopher State Democrat of misrepresenting his army profession.
Walz served 24 years within the Military Nationwide Guard earlier than retiring in 2005, when he launched a profitable congressional marketing campaign and served as a member of the U.S. Home representing Minnesota from 2007 till 2019.
Following Vice President Kamala Harris naming him as her operating mate, Walz has been slammed by a variety of veterans for allegedly misrepresenting his service within the army, together with figuring out himself to the general public as a retired “Command Sergeant Main.”
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Walz was promoted to the command sergeant main rank following a deployment to Italy in 2004, however he didn’t full coursework with the U.S. Military Sergeants Main Academy to retain the rank in retirement. Walz as an alternative retired as a grasp sergeant, one pay grade beneath command sergeant main.
“For 20 years, they let this man go by with a lie that he deployed to Iraq, which he didn’t, and that he retired as a command sergeant main, which he didn’t. I imply, that’s simply blatant lies,” Republican Virginia Senate candidate Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain, informed The New York Submit this month of Walz.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Temple College on Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
The battalion commander of Walz’s former Minnesota Military Nationwide Guard unit additionally issued a scathing message to Harris’ operating mate earlier this month concerning him portraying himself as a “retired Command Sergeant Main.”
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“He didn’t earn the rank or efficiently full any task as an E9,” John Kolb, who served as a lieutenant colonel of the first Battalion, one hundred and twenty fifth Subject Artillery from 2005 to 2007, wrote in a social media publish this month. “It’s an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit within the cockpit of an airplane, it doesn’t make me a pilot. Equally, when the calls for of service and management on the highest stage obtained actual, he selected one other path.”
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The “retired Command Sergeant Main” rank was promoted by the Harris marketing campaign till earlier this month, when it modified Walz’s biography on the marketing campaign’s web site to learn that he “served as a command sergeant main.”
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