Not some young kid who did something stupid but a grown man and a school teacher and a football coach at that so he has to be responsible for not just himself but your kids who went to school and he was teaching his radical leftist Marxist agendas too. Now Timmy here had been drinking and watching college football with friends on a Saturday night in September and how many of us have not done that before? This was the night however he decided you know what's a good idea? Well I'm going to try to drive home piss DRUNK!
Bright IDEA For sure but sadly not one that the local police found very bright as they signaled for him to pull over, but clearly Timmy was having none of this so what did he do you ask? Did he pull over as the officer asked?
Bright IDEA For sure but sadly not one that the local police found very bright as they signaled for him to pull over, but clearly Timmy was having none of this so what did he do you ask? Did he pull over as the officer asked?
Did he say "No it's a cardigan but thanks your asking!" Nope! Walz sped up like a rebel without a clue or at least a fleet of other Rebels from a Galaxy Far, Far away this man took his car and sped up driving faster than DOC Brown needed to time travel! Yes friends he went on to drive a whooper (Not Burger King type neither!) 95 miles per hour before he finally stopped.
His first thought probably was "I've gone ludicrous Speed!" And as his eventual blood alcohol level was .128 above the legal limit. Months later, he pleaded guilty to reckless driving, a misdemeanor, lost his license for 90 days, and paid a fine. Now in my 46 years I've never had a DUI so I can't speak on how this would even enter someones mind. But hey stupid people do stupid things right?
Tim claims he quit drinking and resigned from coaching at the Alliance High School. To his credit he offered to resign from teaching altogether, but the principal talked him out of it and don't know why cause that's all you need someone who makes poor decisions in life teaching our youth. But yes A year later, Tim and Gwen Walz moved to Minnesota in search of a fresh start, where Walz taught high school and coached football again at Mankato West High School for 20 years.
In a 2018 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Walz described his arrest as a “gut check moment,” when he recommitted to being a role model to his students. And now he wants to put tampons in boys bathrooms... This man is not well. Until just recently the Trump campaign didn’t seem particularly eager to make an issue of the arrest against Vice President Kamala Harris’ new running mate, perhaps noting that Walz past opponents had tried, and failed, to get voters to care about an old DUI.
But attacks on Walz service record haven’t seemed to be landing (the Wall Street Journal called them “thin gruel”) and then a new story appeared on Communist Nazi News or CNN as the majority of the lib's know them as said on Thursday that Walz campaign lied when questioned about the DUI in 2006. A Moment of clear truth from them which is amazing but who cares even if Trump doesn't use it against him we the people will because this further shows what a liar, and corrupt idiot this man has always been.
It seems that back in 2006 when Tim Walz first ran for Congress, his campaign manager told the fake news all about that DUI charge against Walz and said it had been dropped and he was offered a plea to the lesser offense, reckless driving, because he had not been drinking at all. Walz, his then campaign manager claimed, had suffered hearing loss during his time in the Army National Guard and had repeatedly failed to understand the police officer’s instructions, first when he signaled him to pull over and then during the sobriety test.
He went on to claim that Walz had been allowed to drive his car from the scene of the arrest to the police station, something the police would not have allowed had Walz actually been drinking. These lies are so dumb and easy to disprove that they should know better than to have a campaign staffer offer a handout story to his future enemies like this one but with all that said as I always say "Tards all over the world." So even so, headed into next week’s Democratic National Convention, it's hard to think the American public will care much? Well let's make sure this spreads as we all know how they would have used this on JD Vance if this was a part of his past and you know how they wanted that mugshot of TRUMP out so bad to smear him.
So a good turn deserves another they say? There is another reason that Walz past mistakes might make for a weak attack since it is a Misdemeanor arrests after all it's not like he joined the MANSON party and killed someone or did anything like that. But if this was a TRUMP case the left again would be losing their minds mocking him all over their Fake News. By the best estimate is that 13 million people who are charged with misdemeanors each year.
And the fact that this old DUI comes up every time Walz pursues a new professional opportunity highlights a problem faced by many Americans: Once a person has a misdemeanor conviction, the collateral consequences can last for life. Especially when it puts others lives in danger like a DUI.
Though they may be common, misdemeanors are deeply stigmatizing: 86 percent of employers use criminal background checks in their hiring process. Often, employers don’t care about the details of an incident the mere existence of the conviction is enough to make an employer choose a different candidate. People charged with misdemeanors are often poor, and prosecution makes them poorer.
Court comes with fines and fees, which can lead to a cycle of debt, making it impossible for people to get off of probation. For “lucky” defendants, cases are closed and debts are sold to collection agencies, who hound defendants and ruin their credit scores.
Municipalities often have a financial stake in prosecuting low-level crime, because they need the money that is collected from these prosecutions to fund their courts or police departments. That was what the DOJ discovered when it looked under the hood of the criminal justice system in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2015, after a police officer killed Michael Brown.
The investigation revealed a deeply corrupted system that intentionally penalized poor people of color, in order to generate revenue. Offenses (like DUI) can be dangerous to the public or (as in the case of theft) can diminish quality of life for the people who are affected. But who police choose to arrest and how they are treated once they enter the system is critical to whether those people go on to lead productive lives like Walz nearing the pinnacle of American government or trapped in the current system. Specifically, leniency helps.
Being arrested and prosecuted makes it more likely that a person will be arrested and prosecuted again. Contrarily, studies show that effective diversion actually makes people less likely to re offend. Treating people with compassion and grace actually makes us safer. The majority of people who are arrested for misdemeanors should be offered means-tested, pretrial diversion programs that do not compel defendants to plead guilty, so that they can exit the criminal justice system without a criminal conviction and without debt. Once the charges are dropped, evidence of these arrests should be automatically sealed from public view, at no cost to the defendant.
What’s important to remember from this story is that Timmy Walz and his little misdemeanor conviction could easily have cost him his teaching career in 1996 and that would have been a real loss for nobody as he was a moron then and is a moron now. “You have obligations to people,” Gwen Walz recalled telling her husband when she was interviewed about his arrest in 2018 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “You can’t make dumb choices.”
That has never been more true than in this moment. And for the rest of us, I hope Tim Walz can be a reminder that treating people with grace and dignity and not dismissing them for the worst thing they have ever done actually benefits everyone. Like putting tampons in boys BATHROOMS! Let that sync in.
