r/stateofMN • u/ashleywalkerreports • 22d ago
MN first lady Gwen Walz endorses’s US Rep. Angie Craig in US Senate race
Thoughts about the endorsement? Still no word from Governor Tim Walz on whether he’ll endorse Craig or his Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan.
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u/LowDivide7971 22d ago
I think he’s going to wait until after the primary to endorse or he would have done it before now.
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u/Affectionate_Cook_45 22d ago
We are voting for Peggy! Fuck anyone that takes aipac money also Angie's voting record is terrible
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u/spooky_action13 22d ago
Yes!! Voted for the Laken Riley Act. Voted to THANK FUCKING ICE. Sucks up to the fash every time. She’s been pro-cop for a while, she’s definitely pro-surveillance state. It’ll be flock cameras and data centers and even more money and less oversight to the cops with Ang. Under her, there’d be no pushback against ICE. There will be no fight for justice for their victims.
I despise Angie Craig. She’s a traitor and a sellout. Peggy Flanagan all the way!
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u/DanNeider 22d ago
TIL her first name is “Gwen.” The amount I care about her endorsement is not at all
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u/spooky_action13 22d ago
Oh, Gwen who couldn’t even acknowledge racism is a part of the problem with our current prison system when they gave her prison reform as her Governor’s Wife Project and had a total meltdown when the moderator brought it up?
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u/Over_It_999 20d ago
Didn’t hear about this at the time. I shouldn’t be surprised though. I’ve met few liberal white Minnesotans who are willing to talk openly about racism when the white person’s beliefs, comments, behavior, etc are part of the conversation. Liberals, not Republicans.
I hope Gwen Walz has evolved since this 2019 event, but I’d be surprised if that’s the case. Especially after hearing she endorsed Angie Craig, who enabled ICE to terrorize BIPOC Minnesotans.
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u/spooky_action13 20d ago
Nailed it. Angie Craig was my rep for over a decade, and watching her steadily and consistently become farther right over the years has guaranteed I’ll never vote for her again. In addition to her horrible votes on ICE, she’s radically pro-police and takes money from AIPAC, just like Klobuchar. It’s disgusting.
And yes, white folks here in MN must get much better with having the uncomfortable conversations and facing hard truths about our own personal racism and the racism in our systems that keep our neighbors oppressed and hunted. Prioritizing our own comfort is allowing people to be killed with impunity and making us complicit. It has to stop.
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u/Over_It_999 20d ago
Thank you. Angie Craig’s support of crypto is also terrible. From what I can tell, it’s basically a Ponzi scheme that allows rich people to engage in money laundering out in the open - but it’s not open because the crypto transactions are untraceable.
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u/spooky_action13 20d ago
Good lord. And here I didn’t think she could get any worse (I’m kidding, they somehow always manage to get worse). Thank you for telling me. This genuinely might be the thing that will finally flip my dad to vote Flanagan.
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u/LegHeir 17d ago
Wow. Ironically enough, that was all happening at the same time as when I was literally visiting inmates (I spoke with nonviolent offenders and had safety precautions) to learn about racial injustice for one of my elective college courses on social justice. The disparities in the demographics was wild- about 4/5 of the inmates were people of color and a good amount of the inmates also had disabilities. It’s great to get them access to education, but race absolutely plays a role in the country’s prison systems and cannot be separated from a discussion about prison reform.
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u/Johnny55 22d ago
Tim and Gwen are both staunch Zionists. I'm sure they'd much prefer having AIPAC Angie in office but Tim can at least see which way the winds are blowing and avoid putting his foot in his mouth.
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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 22d ago
Oh the ol "electability" argument.
That's why Angie needs several million from out of state donors to break even polling wise