U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is throwing a flag on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee after Walz invoked Alabama's senior U.S. Senator's name at a fundraiser the night before.
Walz, who was a defensive coordinator at Mankato West High School in Mankato, Minn., reportedly called himself the "anti-Tuberville" on Wednesday and said he planned "to show that football coaches are not the dumbest people."
Tuberville responded to the report on Thursday, calling Walz "an embarrassment to the Coaching profession" on Twitter.
The former Auburn coach also hit Walz for deserting his military unit, allowing police to abandon their units during violent George Floyd protests and having tampons installed in boys' bathrooms in Minnesota.
Speaking of an embarrassment to the Coaching profession...@Tim_Walz DESERTED his military unit when he found out they were deploying to Iraq.
— Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) August 15, 2024
Walz had the Police ABANDON precincts while his cities burned in 2020.
And Walz had tampon dispensers installed in BOYS' bathrooms.… https://t.co/sk5jeFNFuE
Tuberville also penned an op-ed for National Review in which he called into question Walz's record and railed against the "radical leftist posing as a Midwestern moderate."
Excerpt as follows:
Whether it’s his military service or his tenure as a 'head coach,' there are a lot of questions when it comes to Tim Walz’s record. I suspect more about the governor will be revealed in the coming days.
However, there is one thing Americans should know for certain: Walz is a radical leftist posing as a Midwestern moderate. Don’t be fooled. Whether it’s his soft-on-crime policies or his reckless Covid measures, it’s not hard to see why Bernie Sanders endorsed him for vice president.
Governor Walz transplanted the social-justice policies of California and New York to his home state. Look at how he handled the deadly George Floyd riots of 2020. Walz let the rioters rip Minneapolis to shreds. Like Nero during the Great Fire of Rome, he looked on from the comfort of his governor’s mansion as the city burned.
Instead of immediately jumping to defend Minnesota businesses and citizens who were being brutally attacked by violent mobs, Governor Walz had the National Guard stand down for several days. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he allegedly told Minneapolis police to 'give up' the city’s Third Precinct Station as it was engulfed in arsonists’ flames.
Maybe Governor Walz let the anarchy unfold because his wife liked the smell of the burning city — as she explained in a local interview. Maybe Walz simply has a history of giving up when the going gets tough, as he did when he abandoned his National Guard battalion right before it deployed to Iraq. Or maybe he ignored Minnesotans’ cries for protection from the angry mobs because of his radical vision for the state and, ultimately, America."
Find the full op-ed here.
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