“Everybody’s grandpa” Tim Walz must be a bit of a crank when it comes to traffic. The climate crusader flew 53.9 miles between stops in Michigan this week.
It wasn’t between airport rallies — he actually left airport premises to give a speech at the Public Museum in downtown Grand Rapids:
At the @Tim_Walz rally in Grand Rapids pic.twitter.com/M4MDf4wpCM
— Goldie (@gvan605) September 13, 2024
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While it was not reported where Walz overnighted, the next morning, he flew the relatively short distance from Grand Rapids to Capital Region International Airport in Lansing and was greeted by congressional candidate Curtis Hertel:
Welcome to Lansing, Coach! pic.twitter.com/H64umGq1o4
— Curtis Hertel (@CurtisHertelJr) September 13, 2024
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He didn’t remain at the Lansing airport, either. He ventured to the campus of Michigan State University.
During his time as Minnesota governor, Walz has fashioned himself as a climate crusader and mandated green energy for state residents, regardless of the uncertainty.
Politico declared him “*the* climate pick,” suggesting he would bring the climate agenda back to a race that has largely been void of it.
According to far-left Mother Jones, “Tim Walz has been an aggressive leader on climate action” and he “has pursued one of the nation’s greenest gubernatorial agendas in Minnesota.”
“The idea [is] that we can create a clean energy future where we can protect our water, protect our land, and do that in a manner that grows the economy in Minnesota,” Walz said when mandating 100% green energy by 2040.
Mother Jones reported, “Under the clean-electricity law, Minnesota is on track to transition to clean-energy sources even faster than California, which is often seen as America’s trailblazer when it comes to climate action.”
Walz also “rammed a California-style EV mandate into law”, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
“If Washington won’t lead on climate, Minnesota will,” Walz said in 2019.
“There’s been a concerted effort from the Walz administration to mandate that auto dealers stock electric vehicles on their lots. It adopted the California zero-emission vehicle mandate, and that was through the administrative rule making process,” energy analyst Isaac Orr told WFB.
h/t Heather Dow