Drake's Place: MN Gov DEM Tim Walz bullies Twin City Public Television into deleting embarassing video of his wife, Gwen. Public TV happily agrees, playing the usual accomplice in continuing The Liberal Narrative.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

MN Gov DEM Tim Walz bullies Twin City Public Television into deleting embarassing video of his wife, Gwen. Public TV happily agrees, playing the usual accomplice in continuing The Liberal Narrative.

Minnesota Public Radio Capitol View: Walz lends support to felon voting rights.

Oh - if it had been a Republican Gov asking Public TV to delete a video, the resignation would be over and the Lieutenant Governor already sworn in.

Alpha News: Twin Cities Public Television (aka TPT) Deletes Embarrassing Walz Video About Race and Incarceration.

“It’s taken care of … We talked to TPT.” According to [TPT's Sarah] Walker, [Kristin Beckmann, Deputy Chief of Staff for MN Governor Tim Walz] continued to say that “The TPT president has now apologized and agreed to destroy all of the videotapes that were made of the event.”

Gwen Walz (wife of Minnesota DEM Governor Tim Walz) is promoting programs where inmates can receive education behind bars, including technical certifications and their high school diplomas.
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...a panel discussion was held, which including Gwen Walz and was taped by [Twin Cities Public Television].
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[Moderator of this discussion Toussaint] Morrison ran with [questions] about race, and Gwen Walz appeared to be stumped. Some in the crowd felt she was sidestepping the race issue entirely.

Once the event was over, the Walz administration scrambled to get the video of the event deleted.

Kristin Beckmann, deputy chief of staff for Democrat Governor Tim Walz is alleged to have put pressure on TPT President and CEO Jim Pagliarini to delete the tape.

Sarah Walker, a former Department of Corrections (DOC) employee who was pushed out over a lobbying scandal, was also on the panel. Walker seems to suggest that her not properly defending Gwen Walz during that panel led to her eventual exit from the DOC. Walker told MPR that Beckmann, Walz’s deputy chief of staff, told Walker over the phone: “It’s taken care of … We talked to TPT.” According to Walker, Beckmann continued to say that “The TPT president has now apologized and agreed to destroy all of the videotapes that were made of the event.”

MN Gov DEM Tim Walz (he wants to take your guns away, too.)

MPR News: Gov. Walz responds to criticism over deleted video: ‘I value transparency highly’.

Gov. Tim Walz defended his administration’s commitment to transparency Wednesday as well as his wife’s role in seeking changes to education offerings for Minnesota’s prison inmates amid a controversy over a testy forum of which video was later deleted.

“I will stand by that we’re as transparent as any administration, if not the most that Minnesota has ever seen,” Walz told reporters after touring the Minneapolis VA. He added, “I value transparency highly. I believe that I’ve lived that way.”
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Republicans have harshly criticized Walz since the story about the tape deletion was published.
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Walz struck back.

“Is their point that we don’t want to talk about race? Is their point that we don’t want to talk about prison reform? Because I had a bill to do both of those things that was not heard by the Republican Senate,” Walz said.

Walz said others involved in the event also pushed for the video to be discarded. He said the lack of signed releases from participants and attendees made it problematic to retain or broadcast the footage.

Walz feigns he "highly values transparency". Is there a more redundant, trite and worn-out platitude than that? There's no transparency in the Walz Administration. He isn't fooling anyone.

Walz's comment of, "Is their point that we don’t want to talk about race? Is their point that we don’t want to talk about prison reform," doesn't answer the criticism from the Republicans. Instead, Walz deflects to the issue of race. Ah, The Race Card. Well, what can he say? "My wife had no idea what she was talking about or the slightest grasp of the subject matter,"?

The Walz Administration and staff continues proving itself an unfunny comedy of errors, unprepared to govern, overwhelmed by the issues it faces and lacking the talent to successfully resolve anything.

Tim Walz succeeds at one thing: finding a camera and microphone when it's beneficial for him. Which is far too frequent than the exception. We can't really credit him much for getting one video deleted, but who knows? Maybe this is the first of more to come in the incestuous relationship of Public Taxpayer Subsidized Media continuing to carry water for the DEMS. This could Trend in the future.

We have more than three years left to live through the Walz Clown Administration. Hope your income and well-being is up for it.