On 2024-08-31, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 'Never Walz' booth draws crowds as state fair political scene turns
> attention to Minnesota’s governor.
>
> 'Walz has yet to make an appearance at the Great Minnesota Get-Together,
> but the running mate of Kamala Harris is a top conversation topic among
> critics and supporters at the fair.
>
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>
>
> 'The sound of a gameshow-like spinning wheel was almost as constant as
> the smell of fried foods on a stick along a stretch of Underwood Street
> on a mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon. A line of about five dozen people
> snaked its way down the boulevard stretching southward to Ye Old Mill at
> Carnes Avenue.
>
> “You landed on Covid snitch line!” a volunteer from behind the “NEVER
> WALZ” booth shouted to a throng of onlookers who either cheered, jeered
> or were indifferent.
>
> “You just missed ‘Stolen valor!'” someone yelled from a crowd that had
> gathered.
>
> The wheel spinning participants, a pair of young women, politely
> received their “Never Walz” fans, affixed them atop the large pouch of
> their backpacks and jaunted away.
>
> They were two of about 5,000 or so visitors who stop by booth daily,
> said Jesse Smith, a staff member for Action for Liberty.
>
> The conservative grassroots organization has provided an intentionally
> provocative presence at the Great Minnesota Get-Together the last
> handful of years. The location of its booth has changed on occasion, but
> regardless of where it pops up from one year to the next, Action for
> Liberty’s political critiques of DFL policies and politicians tend to
> draw crowds.
>
> Especially this time around, as one of the organization’s most regular
> targets for their criticism, Gov. Tim Walz, is now a running mate to
> Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
>
> “We had to be nimble this time around,” said Erik Mortensen, a former
> Republican legislator from Shakopee and president of Action for Liberty,
> as he described the planning for the annual booth which tends to draw
> many fans, along with a solid handful of foes.
>
> Pivoting from one political topic to the next in time for the fair
> Earlier this year, the organization was planning to run again with its
> “Dump Biden”-themed booth that it said was a success during the 2023
> Minnesota State Fair. But those plans changed abruptly mid-July when
> former President Donald Trump was shot by a would-be assassin during a
> political rally in Pennsylvania. Mortensen said the organization quickly
> planned to pivot its theme for the booth to “Never Surrender,” a tribute
> to Trump’s spirit and survival. They designed and ordered custom
> t-shirts with that now indelible image of Trump with a raised fist as he
> was being rushed off stage by Secret Service, just seconds after shots
> rang out. But those plans changed again when on Aug. 6, Harris, a newly
> christened Democratic successor to Biden, announced she had tapped Walz
> to be her running mate.
>
> The location of the “Never Walz” booth is about 40 paces south of where
> Walz had pitched his own political booth the prior two years at the
> fair. While the two-term Democratic governor has been noticeably absent
> from the fairgrounds as he campaigns with Harris across the country, his
> presence is still felt.
>
>
> Volunteers with Action for Liberty congratulate a participant who won
> the grand prize at the “Never Walz” wheel spin last Friday afternoon.
> (Hank Long/Alpha News)
> “We knew [Walz being picked to run with Harris] was going to be the
> political topic of the fair,” Mortensen said, wearing a red hat with the
> phrase “Walz Lies” emblazoned on the front. “There are so many people
> who come to visit us fired up to vote for Trump. And now that Walz is on
> the ballot they’re even more determined to get Trump back in the White
> House. They know how terrible he’s been for Minnesota.”
>
> The booth has become such a popular attraction that it has had to
> carefully ration the number of “Never Walz” fans it hands out each day
> to visitors who spin the wheel that features eight of the issues Smith
> said voters are most critical of Walz: “Tax increases, Burning
> Minneapolis, Mask Mandate, Tampons in Boys’ Bathrooms, Small Businesses
> Crushed, Child Trans Surgeries, Stolen Valor and Covid Snitch Line.”
> When it’s all said and done the booth will have distributed more than
> 20,000 fans to fairgoers, Smith said.
>
> Political party booths bustling
> At the DFL Party booth just two blocks away at Dan Patch Avenue and
> Cooper Street, the mood was equally energetic and the crowd similar in
> number. A few dozen visitors took their time glancing at a wall adorned
> with no less than 30 politically-charged t-shirts on sale, some with
> simple phrases like, “Kamala” and “Team Harris-Walz,” and others like
> “OMG GOP WTF” and “Land of 10,000 Rights.”
>
> Along the plaza in front of the DFL booth, staff for the progressive
> political action committee “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” had camped
> out to get people to register for their mailing list in exchange for
> fans that featured a quote from former U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone on one
> side, and the organization’s logo on the other.
>
>
> Alliance for a Better Minnesota volunteers camped out in front of the
> DFL Party booth last week with clipboards in hand and fans to give away,
> emblazoned with a quote from the late U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone. (Hank
> Long/Alpha News)
> The Republican Party of Minnesota booth also was bustling with activity,
> including visitors who chatted with two candidates for Congress, Tad
> Jude and Joe Teirab. Both said that visitors seemed to be more informed
> than ever on the political issues and candidates.
>
> “It’s all about inflation, public safety and accountability for
> government spending,” said Jude, a former judge, legislator and county
> commissioner running as a Republican for Minnesota’s Third Congressional
> District. “We are seeing these big government programs that are just a
> complete failure, they’re not managed well. It’s a concern for people
> who live in [CD3], and it’s the topics people I’ve met at the fair want
> to discuss.”
>
> For Teirab, a former federal prosecutor and military veteran who’s
> challenging incumbent Angie Craig in the Second Congressional District,
> all the talk among fairgoers is centered on inflation.
>
> “They are telling me they can’t afford groceries, car bills, the cost of
> energy,” Teirab said. “Sadly, the Biden-Harris economy is at fault for
> it, and Angie Craig has been a lockstep vote for that.”
>
> But voters aren’t neglecting state issues, said state Sen. Mark Koran,
> who’s become a regular fixture at the fair, both at the Minnesota Senate
> booth in the Education Building, and at the Republican Party booth along
> Carnes Avenue.
>
>
> Joe Teirab and Tad Jude visited with fairgoers at the Republican Party
> of Minnesota’s booth last week. Teirab and Jude are both running for
> Congress in suburban districts in the Twin Cities. (Hank Long/Alpha
> News)
> “It’s fascinating, because with the elevation of Walz to the
> presidential race, people are just now starting to learn about all the
> spending, all the extreme legislation that the DFL passed and Walz
> signed the last two years,” Koran said, as he took time out from being
> filmed interacting with fairgoers by a crew from CNN he said was working
> on a story about politics at the Minnesota State Fair. “We speak out on
> a lot of these bad ideas from the Democrats, and people think they are
> just Republican talking points. And then they learn that Democrats
> passed them into law.”
>
> No shortage of Walz crop art
> Even away from more obvious destinations for state fair political
> fodder, you couldn’t escape the “Walz effect.” In the Agriculture
> Building, a line of onlookers admired a heavy dose of Walz and
> Harris-themed crop art installations adorned on the walls among several
> non-political works of art.
>
>
> Even those who visited the Crop Art Exhibition couldn’t get away from
> politics, as several of the entries on display featured creative
> messages of support for Tim Walz and/or Kamala Harris. A handful were
> made by political activists affiliated with the progressive Alliance for
> a Better Minnesota. (Hank Long/Alpha News)
> A staff member inside the Crop Art Exhibit told Alpha News that a few
> hundred people visit the exhibit every hour throughout the busiest hours
> of the fair. Viewers of the several Walz tributes that were on display
> pointed out their favorites, including one image of Walz, constructed
> with 14 different varieties of seeds, with the quote, “They’re just
> weird.”
>
> '
That's hilarious!
I'll bet it's a money maker as well.

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Kamala Harris Is A Marxist
Tampon Tim Walz Is A Radical Left Wing Nutjob
They Are A Match Made In Heaven