Tim Walz shadow government

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz continued his national “town hall” tour yesterday in Houston, TX. Local affiliate Fox 26 reported beforehand:

• Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke will hold a town hall in Fort Bend County on Thursday night.
• The event is being put on by O’Rourke’s nonprofit Powered by People

You may recall that Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s most recent electoral efforts included (2018) a failed bid for U.S. Senate, (2020) a failed bid for U.S. President, and (2022) a failed bid for Texas governor. He did serve three terms in Congress and, formerly, as a member of the El Paso city council.

O’Rourke served as the local host for the town hall event, featuring Gov. Walz, fresh off of his own (2024) failed bid for Vice President.

Since Walz was picked as the Democrats’ VP candidate in August 2024, he has rarely been seen back in Minnesota. And for good reason:

I could go on. A viral Walz town hall clip has the absentee governor advocating for, of all things, a “shadow government” to oppose Pres. Trump. From the 11-second mark:

I’ve been saying this: I think we need a shadow government so when all these things come up, every single day, we have an alternate press conference telling the truth about what things are happening.

It turned out to be a big applause line with the Democratic crowd.

You would imagine that having an absentee governor would be good for a state: you know, “less government, more fun.” Minnesota isn’t getting less government, it has unsupervised government, with no check on the permanent bureaucracy .

The fraud epidemic is the best example, but we also get a steady stream of stuff like the new “ethnic studies” school curriculum, dedicated to “decolonizing” the state through mandated political activism. I wish I were kidding.

So, perhaps Minnesota could benefit from a little “shadow government” back home. After all, that’s where charity begins.