Tim Walz, as governor, and Keith Ellison, as attorney general, took office Jan. 7, 2019. Walz had been a congressional representative from Minnesota’s 1st District, most of southern Minnesota. Ellison abandoned his congressional seat representing the 5th District, most of Minneapolis, to run for attorney general. Ilhan Omar, with Ellison’s robust support, won the congressional seat Ellison’s leaving had made available and was sworn in Jan. 3, 2019.
Minnesota has essentially been financially destroyed ever since.
There were intervening calamities that Walz, Ellison and Omar had nothing to do with, COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd. But both episodes will go down in state history as poorly handled, bungled beyond all understanding, the two shoves on our back that sent us spiraling out of control. Businesses closed. Buildings burned. Law enforcement was held in contempt. Schools…
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