Tim Walz

So, my grandkids who go to school in one of the richest school districts in the state get free lunch and breakfast even though their parents can afford to pay.  I think it should be free to ALL CHILDREN who NEED it.  I am sorry but I can’t support spending money on parts of a program where it is not needed.  Spend that money on lower class size, increased para’s in classrooms or school upkeep.

Minnesota has codified legal abortion.  We are the only state between WI, IA, ND,SD where a woman can get a safe abortion.  There is no forced birth.  

Every state has issues. At least we’re not one of these states.

 www.cnbc.com/2024/07/13/10-states-worst-quality-of-life-america.html

So you think you are some kind of god who gets to decide which child NEEDS food? Gross!

Clearly that's not what she meant. 

I think you are itching for a fight here.  No thanks.  I sleep just fine at night.  😃

You're being a little overdramatic. geez. no one is denying anyone. eyeroll

I was just in a pt room, and they of course have Fox news on...And all the things I have said on here they are starting to weed thru. How can Walz run the country, when he can't even run his own states economy, and of course the george floyd riots. I'm just waiting for the whole...do you want our country run like MN ran the riots? that's coming. betcha 

Ha ha ha! My favorite is Son of a Sock Puppet!

I can absolutely understand how frustrating this would be. I live in an area where it is very hard to find rentals and they are snapped up immediately when they become available, with rents soaring higher and higher. And so I could see working residents being very upset if what you describe was happening here.

However, on the flip side, for a long time it has been very difficult to get individual landlords (at least in my region) to have anything to do with section 8. They just wouldn't accept it, and the waiting lists for public housing units became terribly long with people having to keep moving from shelter to shelter while they were on the list, even though in towns nearby to my own, there were plenty of open rentals available.

So I can also see why officials would choose to do something like this, because the landlords demand to receive above and beyond their normal rent due to the problems they assume they will have to deal with if they rent out to people on section 8.  

Governments could always look to construct more and more public housing developments, but of course they often receive a lot of backlash about that as well.

Exactly, and at least in our district, when they switched to free breakfast for all, the food choices changed to include more pre-packaged foods. While not great health-wise, those foods do keep longer, and there's less waste. So the schools can keep the excess from any given day, and put it back out the next day.  I know in our middle school, at least, only a  small percentage of kids bother with the breakfast.  Some who just prefer what the school has over what's at home. Some who are the fly out the door without eating type, because they're perpetually running late, and then the kids who really need it.  And having some of the other kids eating as well helps mask who needs it and who does not, which is very good, as you pointed out.

There is literally no one Harris could have picked who the right wouldn't have targeted as a far-left radical. Every single governor in the country has problem areas in his/her state that can be targeted as well.

Get behind this ticket and move on. We have to understand the assignment.

Honestly, I think it's important for people to share what they know. I knew nothing about this guy before two days ago. While I can see its in the Democratic party's best interest to not want coverage of any issues, as a voting American, I want to hear what others are saying (and bonus points if they have actually lived in a state that the candidate comes from). And it should be up to the voter to decide if whatever issues there are should be something they should/would worry about or not. 

  Definitely appreciate the people who know him sharing. Saves me from searching because I honestly thought she was picking Shapiro and didn’t do much homework on Walz

  While my vote is going to the Harris/Walz ticket no matter what, it’s still important to me to know his governing philosophy. So thank you to those who have posted with more knowledge than I have, it’s appreciated 

I am not saying that I don’t support Harris/Walz but once you leave the Twin Cities area (which is heavily populated blue) and get to out state MN he is very unpopular. As cindyupnorth and mom said, these are the things you are going to hear throughout the campaign. He is a good choice. My opinions about some of our social programs are just that. Doesn’t make me a bad person. I have read the responses to my comments carefully. There are some good points. I understand the other side.

In full disclosure MN stopped taxing Social Security this year as part of budget cuts. Being on SS I appreciate the change.