Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made up major aspects of the so-called “origin story” of his political career, in which he was ostensibly turned away from a 2004 re-election campaign rally for President George W. Bush and promptly vowed to run for public office.
Walz, then a high school geography teacher, has alleged that he and two of his students were held up by security and “denied entry” to the event because one of the youths had a sticker on his wallet supporting Bush’s opponent, then-Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
However, the Washington Examiner reported Friday, citing sources and high school records, that neither of the teens were Walz’s students and were not refused a spot at the Bush rally because of the Kerry sticker.
Walz also was not a disinterested observer of the 2004 race, having picketed Bush as a “Veteran for Kerry” days before the campaign event in Mankato.
“It’s clear he was politically involved before that moment,” Chris Faulkner, a former Bush campaign aide who worked the rally in question, told the Examiner. “He was protesting in front of the ticket distribution center. It’s all bulls–t.”
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