This is wonderful news!
I heard it this morning and could not believe it. It seemed too good to be true, but it was true!
Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz to run with her on the Democratic ticket.
She intended to announce it at 5:30 pm today in Philadelphia. It leaked.
It’s a great choice.
Governor Walz is a strong supporter of public schools. He graduated from public school in Nebraska in a graduating class of 25.
He grew up in a rural area, and he is able to discuss complicated issues in plain language.
He has a way of speaking that is wise, smart, direct, and easy. He has a twinkle as he speaks.
He launched the word “weird” as a description of Trump and Vance.
He has a net worth of $13,500.
He taught social studies for 20 years.
His masters degree is in educational leadership.
He served from 2007-2019 as a member of Congress, where he headed the Committee on Veteran Affairs.
He served in the National Guard for 25 years.
Walz will be a great addition to the Harris campaign.
Hurrah!
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Wonderful news!!
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perfect! Congratulations!
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Good deal!
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Terrific news…indeed!
Love that he supports public schools and was a public school teacher in addition to all his other noteworthy accomplishments. WOW! Walz lives in the ‘real world.’
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A man with no “daddy money” and a strong record of public service, Walz is a perfect choice for our polarized society.
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Walz is a great pick. Big public school booster. Happy, comical campaigner. Hung the tag “weird” on Trump-Vance.
Net worth of $13,500. Amazing. Very few people from that economic strata in national politics. Members of the squad, probably. Not sure who else.
Gotta love a guy who, when asked about his baldness, responded: “You’d be bald too if you’d monitored a high school lunchroom for 30 years!”
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From MSNdotcom:
According to CA Club India, Tim Walz has an estimated net worth of $19 million as of 2024. His annual income is around $2.5 million, derived from profits in various businesses, dividends, and interest on bank deposits. Through his role as governor, he earns approximately $127,000 per year.
Walz invests in various industries, including education, healthcare, renewable energy, and real estate. He often makes these investments through family members to avoid legal troubles, a common practice among politicians.
His most significant stock investments include $1.5 million in Apple and $1.2 million in Microsoft, as well as stocks in Coca-Cola, Visa, and Johnson & Johnson. His portfolio generates an annual dividend income of around $710,000, and he earns $500,000 through interest on fixed bank deposits.
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Folks, I do not know what to believe about Walz’s net worth?????!!!!??
Another web site says his net worth is:
According to OpenSecrets’ 2017 report, Tim Walz’s net worth was $13,502, which is backed by the financial disclosure form he provided in 2018. Having become a governor, Walz is no longer required to list liabilities and the property he resides in. As such, the implied net worth is zero, reflected in his 2024 statement of economic interest. However, it is safe to assume his actual net worth has remained the same since he has not acquired new assets or real estate since 2018.
Call me baffled.
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Jersey Joe,
Open Secrets says that Walz’s net worth is $13,000+.
https://search.app/bQLyB9B2QcwQEp4k8
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Another source:
https://finbold.com/tim-walz-net-worth/
“Politics: As the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz is entitled to an annual salary of $149,550. However, he has declined the cost of living increase since he assumed the position and chose to receive $127,629 per year.”
The estimates of Walz net worth does not reflect that the home he and his wife own carries a mortgage.
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Yaaaay!
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Excellent choice.
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This is great news. I have loved listening to him. He’s down to earth, smart, and knows what he and Kamala have to do to win and rid the earth of MAGA and any remnants. I suggest to JD, head to the hills!
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💙🎈🎉🎊🎈💙
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Kamala’s Prairie Home Companion
(that’s what my wife said just now)
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I could not agree more! What a great choice!!!
And I am VERY relieved that she did not pick Josh Shapiro, who was reportedly on her short list, because I think his support of neoliberal economic policies has demonstrated that he’s a DINO. (I don’t want to return to the days that began under Clinton’s “New Democrats” –including the Obama years– when I repeatedly wondered, “What on earth happened to the Democratic party???”)
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I am with you on that one. I suspected as much, when I saw he was all in on vouchers (at least at first).
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Thanks! I agree with you. For me, it’s not just that vouchers mean less funding is going to public schools, but that parents who can well afford to pay for private schools are often being subsidized now as well,
But what irks me even more is public dollars going to religious schools, including for my own religion –because that blurs the line between church and state. It’s bad enough that red states like Louisiana and Oklahoma are imposing right-wing religious dogma on public schools and are mandating that the 10 Commandments and the bible be taught there now, when that clearly emanates from people who support turning our country into a haven for White Male Christian Nationalism –at the peril of women, people who believe in other religions and those who choose to practice no religion at all. With the current corrupt SCOTUS, only the religion of the majority there seems to matter now, too, so I think that’s a disaster just waiting to happen if not averted ASAP, such as by expanding the court…
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a very good decision by Harris.
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I am absolutely stoked to vote FOR them instead of AGAINST Trump, which is what I’d have had to do if they placed a voucher supporter in the VP slot.
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A solid choice.👍
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More on Tim Walz: His father’s a school administrator, Walz and his wife were high school teachers. She said she heard his loud voice in the adjoining classroom.
He spent a year teaching in China after college before returning full time to the Army. He traveled to China with one of the first government-sanctioned groups of American educators to teach in Chinese high schools.9.
He still speaks Mandarin.10.
He taught on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. “I tell folks that managing a high-school lunchroom for years trained me for the craziness that can overtake Washington, D.C.”
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Not sure about that net worth. Seems much too low.
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Walz and his wife own a $250,000 house and rent it out. They carry a mortgage on the house. Maybe two.
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I am going nuts trying to find reliable info on his net worth. In any case, he is a GREAT choice as VP, a former public school teacher. Rah, rah, rah! And his wife is still involved at some level with PUBLIC schools.
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https://search.app/bQLyB9B2QcwQEp4k8
Open Secrets is a reputable source on money in politics.
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That’s 7 years old, though.
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FLERP,
Here is the latest on Walz’s net worth. He apparently has no stock holdings. He owns a rental house and has a pension. According to this site, that brings his net worth up to $600,000. That’s a lot more than $13,500, but compare it to the net worth of his peers in Congress or to Trump and Vance:
https://search.app/PMsjXhwrBEQGASWN8
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Seems more reasonable. I was worried about him for a second there.
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https://finbold.com/tim-walz-net-worth/
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AIM, the American Indian Movement, started in Minneapolis in 1968. Their occupation of Wounded Knee catapulted them into national prominence. For those of us who have a special interest in justice for the original folks, Walz holds out the hope for a better deal
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Well said. Now if the Democrats actually followed through what they said once in office, it would be a refreshing change for a better future.
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We’re in a democracy. Democrats may try to follow through and do all they can to follow through, but that doesn’t mean they will succeed.
Isn’t it enough that they try and try again and again, even if MAGA keeps blocking them?
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Agree, Lloyd.
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‘Citizen soldier’ Walz honed leadership in uniform | MPR News
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Here’s what to know about Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for Vice President:
Walz was born in the little Nebraska town of West Point, population 3,500, and grew up in the even smaller town of Butte, Nebraska, population 400, where his high school graduation class was just 24. “There are real stories in small towns,” he says.
Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard when he was 17 and served for 24 years, rising to the rank of Sergeant Major before retiring from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005.
Walz’s father died of lung cancer when he was 19. Walz strongly supports lower-cost health care for everyone because “The last week of my dad’s life cost my mom a decade of work to pay off the hospital bill.”
Walz graduated from Chadron State College in 1989 and earned a Master of Science degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2001.
Walz met his future wife, Gwen Whipple, a native Minnesotan, while they were both high school teachers in temporary classrooms. Gwen says that he caught her attention because his loud voice disrupted her next door class through the room’s flimsy walls.
After marrying, they moved to Mankato, Minnesota, where they both taught at Mankato West High School and he taught geography and coached high school football. Asked about his baldness, Walz answered that he “supervised the lunchroom for 20 years — and you do not leave that job with a full head of hair. Trust me.”
The Walz’s have two children, Hope and Gus. Hope recently graduated from college in Montana, and Gus is in public high school in St. Paul.
Both of their children were conceived through IVF and fertility treatments: “There’s a reason we named our daughter Hope,” he notes.
The people of Minnesota first elected Walz to Congress in 2006, making him the highest-ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve in the U.S. House.
Walz was re-elected to Congress five times by the voters in southern Minnesota’s rural, conservative 1st District, and he served in the House for 12 years.
He became the ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in 2017 and focused on issues such as veterans’ mental health, suicide and pain management. He also called for funding to research medical cannabis treatment for veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
At one time Walz had an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association and the group’s endorsement. In 2016, Guns & Ammo magazine included him on its list of top 20 politicians for gun owners. But Walz lost his rating because he supports bans on assault rifles and other such weapons.
Walz remains an avid hunter and scoffs at JD Vance for talking about guns saying: “I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants like I can.”
In 2019, Walz ran for governor of Minnesota and defeated Republican candidate Jeff Johnson by more than 11 points.
Walz frequently defends his policies, such as the universal school meals bill signed into Minnesota law earlier this year, as being simply common sense: “Kids are eating and having full bellies so they can go learn, and women are making their own healthcare decisions.”
Thirty years ago after getting DWI in Nebraska, he quit drinking. His favorite drink these days is Mountain Dew.
Walz is a runner, who has participated in multiple running competitions in Minnesota’s Twin Cities: “I’ve found that before the most stressful political events, if I’ve gone for a run, I’m calmer and more collected.”
He likes to tinker on his vintage blue International Scout, a four-wheel-drive vehicle that International Harvester stopped producing in 1980.
Walz’s favorite song is “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan, one of Minnesota’s most famous celebrities. Walz views the song as a “timeless message from a dad to his son.”
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OMG, that song gives me chills. (Listen youtube official audio “Forever Young” (slow version).
It seems almost too much to ask Walz would have good taste in music too.
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Thrilled! 👍🏼👍🏾👍🏿
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