More Tim Walz Lies: Texts With Reporters, School Closures, Rioters Not From Minnesota
He’s not lying. Axios says Walz is just a “gaffe factory.”
Oh, is the media finally catching up?
Well, sort of. Just like they have with Joe Biden, Tim Walz isn’t lying or stretching the truth.
Walz is just a “gaffe factory.”
The latest Axios article about Walz includes three new lies, or as the outlet says, gaffes.
Texts With Reporters
Walz said he texted with reporters late into the night on May 15 about the negotiations over spending billions on the state’s infrastructure.
Axios asked for the texts, but Walz’s office said they don’t exist:
“I think my last text exchange was about 12:30 last night, that we were going on this,” he said on the morning of May 16.
Yes, but: When Axios asked for the texts from that night about the capital investment bill using the state’s public records laws, the governor’s office said there weren’t any.
Why it matters: The DFL governor’s office later told Axios he likely misspoke, but the response raised fresh questions about the administration’s approach to transparency and the state’s public records laws.
Or did the office get rid of the texts?
Oh, you know, it wasn’t the first time Walz’s administration had a problem with transparency:
Zoom out: This isn’t the first time the DFL governor, elected in 2018, has faced questions about his office’s retention and disclosure of the governor’s emails and texts.
- The nonprofit Public Record Media (PRM), which has publicly criticized the administration’s handling of such requests, has at times received hundreds of pages of responses with no apparent emails from the governor.
- In 2022, Lancaster told the group the “Governor’s decisions are made primarily in meetings with advisors.”
Plus: In 2019, his first year in office, he reneged on a campaign promise to release his daily calendars.
- His office points to an advisory opinion that classified the records as private data.
School Closures
Walz had strict COVID lockdown rules. He set up a snitch line so people could tattle on their neighbors for breaking the rules.
The governor claimed “over 80% of our students missed less than 10 days of in-class learning.” (It should be FEWER, not less. Sheesh.)
The administration shut down schools from mid-March 2020 to June 2020.
Many of those students “remained in remote learning mode into 2021.”
BLM Riots Caused by Outside Agitators
Walz wanted to blame the burning of Minneapolis during the BLM riots on outside agitators.
He said 80% of the arrested people did not reside in Minnesota.
Even PolitiFact corrected Walz:
Within hours, local TV station KARE reported that Minneapolis-based police tallies of those arrested for rioting, unlawful assembly, and burglary-related crimes from May 29 to May 30 showed that 86% of those arrested listed Minnesota as their address. Arrestees in St. Paul broke down to 12 confirmed from Minnesota out of 18 arrested.
KARE reported that of the out-of-state arrestees, one had a Facebook page that had “clearly identifiable support of white supremacy.”
Officials walked back the claim. Walz just never repeated it.
Wait. There’s more:
The notion that the violent protesters were predominantly out-of-staters took another hit the following day, when USA Today reported that “the overwhelming majority” of people who posted from a burning Minneapolis police station on May 28 and those arrested at protests lived in the Twin Cities area.
USA Today scoured the feeds of more than 1,800 Twitter users who posted from within a 3-mile radius of the precinct fire and found that 85% had a history of posting inside the greater Minneapolis area before George Floyd’s death. The newspaper found a similar pattern in jail records for such cities as Detroit, Louisville, Nashville and Los Angeles.
Here's what the HCSO jail records show. There are 69 cases from Friday to Saturday that were categorized as "received by jail" as of about 11 am this morning. Of those, here's the state breakdowns:
MN56
UNK 5
IL3
ARK1
MO1
IA1
Fla1
MI1— Brandon Stahl (@b_stahl) May 30, 2020
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This dude gives off a very dangerous vibe. The kind of vibe that tells you not to allow him to be alone with kids. I have no evidence of course but I do have my Spidey Sense and that alarm is going off.
yup
Walz leads you to believe he was the head coach of a state-champion high school football coach.
He was a volunteer, assistant defensive line coach. The man is not truthful, at all.
[Q]The governor claimed “over 80% of our students missed less than 10 days of in-class learning.” (It should be FEWER, not less. Sheesh.)[/Q]
THANK YOU!
When I hear this error, it’s like the proverbial fingers on the (outdated) blackboard!
My rule of thumb is easy: You have less milk in your glass than I do, and I have fewer beans on my plate than you do!
(Yes, on this word usage I’m proudly pedantic!)
Grammar is what lets you understand the difference between ‘knowing your shit’ and ‘knowing you’re shit’.
And it’s particularly grating when they’re speaking/writing about education. Oofdah.
You get the feeling he will say anything. Bidenesque. Harris could likely see how that could come in handy.
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Claim, 15 states voter registration files found to contain a processing alogarithm that allows voter registration ID numbers to be altered and the tabulation changed to conform with the alterations so the tally matches the number of registered voters. This is significantly more sophisticated than the previous Democratic Party preferred method of machine fraud that relied upon a vote being created for every number of votes for a Republican, say 100 votes for a Republic would result in the creation (with no voter ID attribution) 102 votes for the Democrat. This creates the messy overages we saw in several States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQJi6_-PjHo&t=7s
Who is making this “claim”, and on what basis?
Also, what “messy overages”? In no recent election has there ever been even one precinct, let alone a district or a state, that had more ballots cast than there were registered voters. Every single claim that such precincts existed has been a lie. This “claim” of yours repeats that lie, and should therefore be presumed to have no credibility.
There’s a fight in GA right now over a similar issue. The State BD of elections and the Sec of State are in a tussle over whether to require the total ballots to match total vote count to match the check in/ receipt total of voters. The Sec of State seems to believe this existing law should not be enforced.
Doesn’t seem like a very big ask to have total voter count match both total ballot count and total vote count before a County can get it’s election certified. Can’t speak to other claims.
It’s not a big ask, and it’s a routine part of a poll worker’s job when closing down their station, to reconcile the number of ballots they started with in the morning, with the number cast, returned, and remaining. Ballots distributed + remaining should equal the start number, and ballots cast + returned should equal the number distributed.
But a small discrepancy may be unavoidable, because there’s no way to prevent someone from walking out with a ballot. Even the most conscientious and competent poll worker can’t account for that.
And not all poll workers are competent, especially with complicated tasks like basic arithmetic. I have seen poll workers make a royal mess of it, either because they lost track of how many they distributed, or because they just can’t do the arithmetic. That can hold up the site closing for half an hour or more; I’ve sometimes been called in to try to fix the situation, but sometimes it’s such a mess it can’t be fixed, and the site coordinator eventually just notes the discrepancy and closes anyway. If it’s just a handful of ballots, it’s not that big a deal.
It’s the same when balancing a business’s books; sometimes there’s just a discrepancy that can’t be reconciled, and if it’s small enough it’s not worth spending time and money trying to figure it out. I learned that at my first job, when I spent over an hour over a 12 cent shortfall, and was told not to do that again and just let it slide.
In any case, none of this has anything at all to do with the topic, which is a claim about more ballots being cast than there are registered voters at that location. That never happens. All claims about it happening are outright lies.
Do you believe your analysis holds up if we look at whether the voter registration of the voters was valid? In GA alone over 12K voters admitted to voting in precinct/County when they were ineligible b/c they had moved to a different County, and it didn’t sample the entire State, just a.few Counties.
I suspect that this category of ineligible voters alone would be enough to swing many elections. Then add in ineligible registrations of those who died, moved out of State. If we back out the ineligible due to deficient registration then we may have a higher # of ballots than eligible voters in more than a few precincts/Counties.
Chief, you keep changing the subject. This is the third different subject you’ve tried to discuss here.
Remember what we’re discussing: Puhiawa’s claim that there are “messy overages”, places where more votes were cast than there are registered voters. That is simply a load of garbage. There is no state, district, or precinct where that has ever happened, and every person who claims it has happened is a liar.
Then you come along and completely change the subject to precincts that can’t reconcile their ballots at the end of the night. That has nothing to do with the previous subject, but I explained about that too. All precincts do attempt to reconcile their ballots, and they almost always do succeed, but occasionally they’re off by a handful of ballots, never anything major.
Now you’re introducing a third, completely unrelated subject, the integrity of the voter rolls. That is unrelated to either of the two previous subjects.
And on that topic let me remind you that it is illegal for an election board to remove a voter from its rolls without positive proof that they’re no longer eligible. They cannot rely on conjecture and guesswork. And they have no access to the federal government’s databases of resident aliens. So it’s impossible to get completely clean rolls. And there will always be people who take advantage of that. Now tell me what the hell you think that has to do either of the two previous topics.
Milhouse,
I am actually trying to have a discussion with you on a separate but related topic from the issue/claims raised by Puhiawa. That’s why I never made an argument advancing the claim they made.
As for the invitation to explain.. ok. If there’s 100 people on the registration list and all of them vote so far so good. If 10 of those have moved out of the County or heck in most States just next door without updating their voter registration to ensure their current PHYSICAL residential address is listed then that registration is invalid which means they are not an eligible voter.
Not hard to follow. To cast a valid ballot one must have a valid voter registration. So if we were to examine the addresses we may find that ineligible ballots were cast by ineligible voters thus more votes (erroneously counted) than VALIDLY registered voters. 100 ballots and 100 voters but 10 ballots cast by the 10 ineligible voters so here more ballots cast and counted, 100, than the # of validly registered voters, 90. Simple.
No need for Federal database access to accomplish this examination, though I do question why anyone would oppose access to basic info like SSA death data and US Postal change of address records. Those could be set up as public access read only files to share the info. Why would you be opposed to preventing non Citizens from voter registration or their removal if already unlawfully registered? Seems a read only list of some immigration files would be helpful to that end as well.
I seem to recall that in the 2006 governor’s race in Washington state there were ultimately 2000 more votes tallied in King County than there were registered voters. There was an instance where several days after the election, during one of the interminable recounts, an election official “found” an uncounted box of castration ballots that he had just “forgotten” in the trunk of his car.
There were plenty of shenanigans, but I don’t think your claim is correct. The number of votes never exceeded the number of registered voters.
It doesn’t say “with reporters”. I would assume any texting he did that night would have been with legislators and their staff, and with his own staff.
Nor can I see any reason why he would tell such a lie. If he says he was texting about the bill until after midnight, then I think we have to presume that was true. Which means that either his office deliberately withheld those texts in violation of FOIA, or the texts were unlawfully deleted. Either way that demands an explanation.
It seems that Walz lies even when he doesn’t need to. Lying seems to be part of his makeup.
This of course makes him the perfect Democrat, but a really shitty VP candidate.
Again, I see no reason to assume he lied. I think the logical presumption is that he told the truth, and these texts once existed. Either they still exist and are being unlawfully withheld, or they were unlawfully deleted.
Gaffe factories are productive.
Walz is a communist destroyer.
Maybe his brained is fried from alcohol.
How convenient for Walz that any lie is merely a “gaffe”. On this basis, Joe Biden’s “gaffe” count is now in the millions.
Gotta call this liar the SNITCH! Mind your own damn business.
Lies and inauthenticity. FREEDOM to persecute your neighbors.
This is 1984 in reality. American communism fueled by propaganda, political abuse, and cultism.
Why should “over 80% of our students missed less than 10 days of in-class learning” be fewer than?
Because days are countable. There are “so many” days, not “so much” days. No more and no fewer. Whereas water, for instance, is not countable; you can measure it, but not count it. So there is “so much” water, not “so many”. No more and no less.
“Fewer” versus “less” is a repeated error these days. Americans can’t express themselves using correct grammar and vocabulary. Is it any wonder the likes of Heels Up Harris may become President?
Milhouse is right, but it can get tricky in certain things that can be counted, if only broadly, like time and money.
If you can count something individually, it’s fewer. If not, it’s less. I have less money than I used to, so I have fewer dollars in my wallet.
Note that in this case, “money” is something that CAN be counted, but we would not say, I have fewer money than I used to, right? So this is one of the few exceptions. Time is the same, for example, you don’t say you have fewer time, you have less time. You ALSO feel like you have fewer minutes in the day (not not not “less minutes”).
Oh, and you may have lost less weight than you wanted, so you lost fewer pounds than you hoped.
So some things that can be counted, but not as itself (money, time, weight), can only be less (not fewer), while the units of said thing (dollars, hours, pounds) can only be fewer (not less). So less time, fewer days.
Almost 81, and I am just now learning proper grammer. And they used to call me the “grammer-nazi”. . .
Another clue is whether you are using “are” or “is.”
The “are” (I won’t say this is a guarantee) tells you it’s countable, because you’re saying there can be more than one. If “is” makes sense without the “fewer”/”less”, then it might not be countable, but a more categorical term.
No, money and time can’t be counted. Dollars and minutes can be counted, but money and time can only be measured. As I pointed out above, you can’t ask “how many money”, but only “how much money”. Whereas you do ask “how many dollars”, not “how much dollars”. Therefore you have less money, but fewer dollars.
Likewise with time. You can ask how many hours and minutes you have, not how much, count them, and discover that you have fewer than you thought. But you can’t ask how many time you have, only how much; you can’t count your time, but you can measure it, and discover that you have less time than you thought.
And this differs from what I said in what way? Of course money can be counted, in its units. Stop it.
Sorry, Fuzzy Brain, Milhouse was and is correct. You are rightly being schooled by him.
You wrote: “Note that in this case, “money” is something that CAN be counted,” Actually you cannot count money. You can count units of money. That subtlety seems fuzzy to you.
I’d be careful urging Milhouse to “stop it” since he is nearly always correct. Readers of this blog would do well to pay attention to his posts. Everyone who downvotes his comments exposes their own idiocy.
So you’re saying that money cannot be counted? Really? Because, newsflash, money can be counted.
Further, and as I make clear in my post, money is counted in its UNITS, did you miss that part? In fact, you complete dolt, the whole point is to show the difference between fewer and less. I have less money, so I have fewer dollars. What part of this is complicated to you? It’s basic grammar and usage.
We do speak of “counting money”, but what we mean is measuring it, by counting the dollars and cents that make it up. It’s a subtle distinction, but an important one.
We don’t measure money, Milhouse. That’s insane. We count money. In fact, we measure weight, but do we say that I lost fewer weight? Or do we say I lost less weight? Oh, right, I lost less weight. Are you going to tell me that weight cannot be measured? Of course it can, in its units. As I state originally.
Your pedantic nitpickery on the wrong question–you waffled on about much, many, and more–over a simple question about the proper use of “less” vs. “fewer.” I didn’t call you out for your misunderstanding of the question directly in my response (though perhaps I should have?), but if you want to play that game, I’m good with that. Pretty much very good with that, actually.This is my wheelhouse.
not as a noun
but it can be counted
Yes, you did go off on a weird side tangent, but the question posed was about the difference between “less” and “fewer.” Your side babbles about “many” and “much” are completely irrelevant (a fact I did not point out initially, but if you want to play pedant on grammar and usage with me, let’s go!).
You are incorrect here. Money can be counted, you mid-wit, but the proper way to talk about counting money is specific: you can have less money, and fewer dollars, but you can not have fewer money and less dollars.
Am I right or not? (This is a rhetorical question because I am right.)
in lefty world meritocracy = snitch..snitch = meritocracy
that is the reality