Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz pictured in 1995 Nebraska mugshot after DUI arrest
By: Michael Ruiz (Fox News)
So, Tim Walz actually levels the playing field. Is it time to fall back 10 and punt?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz became a national figure this week after Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her 2024 running mate to challenge former President Donald Trump and Ohio. Sen. JD Vance.
His past became an immediate topic of interest - and a booking photo obtained by Fox News Digital shows the new vice presidential candidate pictured shortly after a 1995 arrest in Nebraska after state troopers pulled him over for speeding and suspicion of drunken driving.
The Dawes County Sheriff's Office said Walz had been arrested on Sept. 23, 1995, after state police pulled him over on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Court documents allege that Walz, 28 at the time, who was a high school teacher and football coach at the time, was speeding above 80 mph. He failed a breath test with a .128 blood-alcohol level. The limit back then was .1 in many parts of the country, including Nebraska. It is now .08.
And he failed a field sobriety test, but his lawyer blamed the incident on a combination of his client's bad hearing and that the state trooper didn't turn his siren's on right away.
It was "a little bit bizarre," the lawyer, Russell Harford, claimed in court. Walz believed "somebody was after him."
Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appear on stage together during a campaign event at Girard College on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris ended weeks of speculation about who her running mate would be, selecting the 60-year-old Midwestern governor over other candidates. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
He was booked into the county jail and later released on bond. The case ended in a plea deal where Walz admitted to a reduced charge of reckless driving.
Walz, now 60, paid a $200 fine and reportedly no longer drinks alcohol.
Harris revealed Walz as her running mate Tuesday. She became the presumptive Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee after incumbent President Joe Biden backed out of the race following a disastrous debate performance, disappointing polls and concerns about whether he is capable of continuing to lead the country.
Walz, a longtime National Guardsman and Nebraska native, was elected to the House of Representatives after a career in education. He took office as Minnesota's governor in 2019 and won reelection in 2022.
Walz, along with his Republican vice presidential hopeful counterpart JD Vance, are both Mountain Dew consumers, specifically Diet Mountain Dew.
"Make it a Diet Mountain Dew and I'm sold," Walz said in a 2023 X post in response to convenience store chain KwikTrip, which wrote, "idk who needs to hear this but 52 oz of diet coke is a perfect way to start the morning."
Fox News' Gabriele Regalbuto contributed to this report.
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Well, lookie lookie. Trump ain't the only candidate with a mug shot. And Trump ain't the candidate that served time in jail, either.
Stop the presses! The editors are calling for another rewrite.
Stop the presses?! 1995 was almost 30 years ago. This could be your most desperate post yet.
the stank of desperation
the stink of deplorability and desperation
Hilarious!
This is how the pussy grabbers try to even the playing field.
It was even longer than that for Kavanaugh's alleged harassment.
Walz has a lot of bad history and all of it is going to be exposed.
When he is convicted of 34 felonies, get back to us.
Misdefelonies…… get it right ….
There is no such thing as misdefrelonies. Trump is facing sentencing for 34 Real Felonies next month...
Nope, liberal swamp creatures created misdefelonies with their circle jerk of a trial.
Own it.
Hilarious coming from someone that believes and bows down to a woman that claims she was sexually assaulted in a dressing room by Trump several decades ago, but looks at a mug shot of a guy charged with dui that could have killed someone while he was driving and says its no big deal because it was a long time ago.
Sad
You’re right, it’s amazing he has gone on this long without killing himself over the immense grief and shame. He should just drop out and go live in a cave where he can’t potentially hurt anyone anymore.
Thirty year old whatabouts are irrelevant - except for the left?
He was hearing impaired from his military duties with self propelled howitzers testing rocket assisted 155 munitions, he was allowed to plea to reckless driving.
So in what state is a .128 not legally drunk at the time? They gave him a break, but that doesn't change the fact he was legally drunk at the time.
So a lawyer wouldn't contest the maintenance and calibration of the equipment or the police officers training?
Tens of thousands of breathalyzers results are thrown out regularly
Didn't MA make breathalyzers inadmissible in court from 2012 to 2014 because of reliability and human error?
1995 seems like the stone ages.
He blew a .128 and failed a field sobriety test. deflect all you want, he was drunk doing more than 90 in a 55. He got a break, good for him.
Being arrested for and pleading are two different things. He was arrested for DUI and could have killed someone for it.
Of course, if he did, like Kennedy, he would be forgiven by most on the left and they will act as if it never happened.
When you can show where it legal for states to preside over federal law in court let us know.
We are still waiting.
Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault by four women.
At least 26 women have accused Trump of sexual assault.
“One of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s accusers admitted this week that she made up her lurid tale of a backseat car rape, saying it “was a tactic” to try to derail the judge’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee revealed the fraud in a letter to the FBI and Justice Department Friday, asking them to prosecute Judy Munro-Leighton for lying to and obstructing Congress.”
This will simply be excused as a misunderstanding or she misspoke and the left will never speak of it again.
the stink of deplorability and desperation
the stenk of discombobulation and defenestration!
lying to Congress?
They've got it backwards-- it the members of Congress who are supposed be the liars!
"Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself".
--Mark Twain
My 54 year total driving record bears only one of each of 1. Following too close, 2. Turning right on a red light without stopping, and 3. Speeding 10 km/hr over the highway speeding limit. So arrest me, crucify me, fingerprint and mug shot me, post articles about my driving record, and I'm sorry I have no criminal record to help make a pariah out of me.
You're a monster...LOL
(J/K)
My Mother who got her driver's permit in 1948 still drives all the time. She drove herself from Western Oklahoma to Chicago and back last year for a family wedding. She likes to have her own vehicle available and resents it when people insist on driving...
Beware of the BUZZ MONSTER!!!
With driverless cars becoming more common, the day may come when NOBODY will drive.
You like old cars but new ones have some wonderful safety and convenience features. Back up cameras, lane keep assist, smart cruise control, accident avoidance, blind spot warning and automatic emergency braking are pretty much standard in new cars. I particularly like my rear view camera and heated seats and steering wheel and I really appreciate navigation in the city because I never get lost. Even plain modern cars have luxury features we couldn't imagine merely twenty years ago.
Public transportation in your dense, urban environment would be more environmentally responsible.
You can have all those things. I would prefer to have my 1950 Ford Custom Coach back with a bench front seat, an "H" manual gearshift mounted on the steering column, an AM radio with 5 manual push buttons, no power brakes or power steering, NO electronics of any kind and no chips and I LOVED to drive it, especially cause it wasn't driving me.
I drive all over the country and have friends family everywhere. My personal business and habits are none of your business...
Doesn’t sound very “green” there my friend ….
Our climate is everybody’s business.
My personal business in none of your business. Observations about where I live and what I drive are always inappropriate...
As are personal comments about all members of NewTalkers!
If you want to take it to META or Heated Discussion, say so...
Otherwise all further personal trolling will be flagged as such!
Are We Clear?
We were having a decent conversation until you ruined it all...
Your only objective is to bother me with inappropriate bullshit.
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What office are you running for?
That'll surface in the next gun story.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Oh, come on, I only walk these days, I don't run at all.
You are too young.
Would never drive a driverless car. Sounds crazy.
Thank you, but "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
Actually the present CJ was born around the time I was in Law School.
LOL. Well, the point is you don't HAVE to drive it, but I'm with you on that.
Yes, one of you guys always tries to derail every discussion to my personal business, where I live, where I go, what I drive...
It is bullshit and it is inappropriate and it is low down trolling!
You sound as forceful as COL Nathan R. Jessup.
I don’t have that capability.
You confuse me with your trolling memes.
Do we really need a driverless car? I mean, as a species we are lazy as fuck as it is.
If the driverless car is safer and more fuel efficient, of course we need it.
Pot, meet kettle.
I’ve never posted a meme.
But you do troll constantly.
Define troll.
Run for president and watch molehills become mountains.
No, we're not going to do any of that.
But I can tell you this-- now you will never be the Vice-President of The United States!
Actually to add a more subtle type of humour to that comment, I should've said:
But I can tell you this-- now you will never be the Vice-President of The United States, eh?
I've never suffered a greater loss.
I've never suffered a greater loss, eh.
It's enough to make me give up on the Toronto Maple Leafs, eh.
Meh, a DUI from 30 years ago? Try again.
He subsequently claimed he was deaf, not drunk. .128 is well over the limit in every state.
JFC you have to really dig deep to find any so called dirt.
The too long alingering death of the last of the MAGA'S fevered fetish fascist wet dreams will be fitful and full of desperately lame lies and utterly outrageous gall...
I just saw something about the former 'president' convicted felon and rapists' latest ranting about President Biden and the presidency being stolen from him by Kambala and Barack Hussein, etc., was described as 'just the usual projection of his own insanity' by Nancy Pelosi
Kind of like digging up somebody claiming rape after 30 years?
Nobody cares...
Yes, yes, you've been issued your talking points.
No, and it is kind of weird you think so...
did you get a cracker for that? What's the reward system?
I was wondering the same thing. Do they submit to the handlers how many times they use the word weird for a chance at a vacation at some left wing shithole or something?
More like perverse when coming from the 'right' and nothing but projection.
Does your side submit how many times y'all use 'woke'?
Mirror, mirror on the wall and all that sort of stuffing.
If there is a place for cashing that in let me know.
They owe me a bundle.
"Woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke".
Wonder if I can count each one as a separate posting?
But yet you cared about a woman claiming to have been sexually assaulted by Trump in a dressing room decades ago and telling no one for decades until Trump ran for office.
sad, really
How many years after some creep forcefully finger fucks you wife, daughter or sister against her will are you going to get over it?
A DWI reduced to reckless driving 30 years ago is regrettable...
Random grabbing women by their privates is a different league.
Keep it up though. It only makes MAGAs look desperately lame!
Yeah but breaking the faith with your comrades in arms? Timeless ….
You did not answer my question!
Retiring after 24 years to run for Congress is honorable.
But...
And herein lies the problem. Blind partisanship and not really knowing what one is voting for. All it takes is a glorious D after the name.
A woman with any dignity and self
respect would have reported the supposed finger fucking within seconds of it happening TO THE POLICE, not decades later to a friend, “coincidentally” right after Trump announced he was running for office.
Face it JBB, the finger fucking never happened. It was all just one of her weird fantasies she has publicized about.
Unfortunately, he was tried in a NYC court where finding an unbiased jury is like finding bigfoot in your backyard chilling in your pool on one of your floats sipping on an iced tea.
The former 'president' traitor convicted felon and rapist has been a rapist for a long time.
EJ told a good friend the day of the rape which is proof. She also told her friend she didn't know if it was a finger that violated her or his penis because it WAS SO SMALL.
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I just checked-- this seed now has 117 comments.
Does that mean they cared (cared enough to make 117 comments)?
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe they were just bored and couldn't figure out anything else to do?
Or maybe... "The dog ate the scrabble pieces?"
So they came here to amuse themselves...?
Please let me encourage the gop to continue to attack Vice President Harris' racial identity and Governor Walz's military service. It makes Old Bone Spur and Major Eye Liner look like Weirdos!
Lol. You calling a man who wears eyeliner weird? Is that the new progressive line? Buddy, wait till you learn about transvestites.
There was a reason Trump had Epstein killed in jail.
The corrupt Feds let Trump get to him.
And you self identify as a Bonxite, right,
Correct.
(Everyone knows that people that live in The Bonx are called "Bonxites")
But people from out of town sometimes erroneously call them "Bonxontonians".
NE Bronx self identifies as being NEBROS.
Others may be WEBROS, SEBROS, SWBROS, SOBROS or the lonely NOBROS...
You forgot old twinkle-toes:
You don't have President Biden to trash anymore now, do you?
Man, I feel sorry for my friends on the left. I really do.
Good luck in November but just in case, work on your sky screaming technique. You are gonna need it …..
Which Translates To...
Friends on the left?
No friends PERIOD.
You left Biden falling up the stairs of AF1 (twice); almost falling down the short stairs of AF1; almost falling coming out of Marine 1; falling off his bike while bringing it to a stop; almost falling down 3 very small stairs at the CNN debate; tripping and falling over a small sandbag while on stage; and generally getting lost on stage.
Domo arigato Mr Roboto Biden.
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You have friends on the left?
No one wants to grab that thing
A prostitute and a drunk honor thief walk into a bar…….
The jokes are going to write themselves.
Two Corinthians walk into a bar...
They don't for trump, he IS the joke.
What did you order for the drunk?
A DUI, but he said he already had one so i will have to find him something else.
You forget that only liberals are smart enough to write a funny/clever joke.
Exactly, show us your best stuff.
Maybe you have never seen some of the memes a certain leftist incessantly posts here.
Nothing funny or clever about them.
Is she a woman?
Can she define what a woman is?
Yet another meme that makes zero sense.
Here's Trump's World's Smallest Organ playing "My Heart Bleeds For You"...
Keep’in it deep.
Consider this my artistic interpretation of your commentary on NT.
Thanks, I've loved Muddy Waters and his Chicago Blues sound.
Good joke. but you forgot the second line:
A prostitute and a drunk honor thief walk into a bar…….
The bartender looks up and says:
The jokes are going to write themselves.
A prostitute and a drunk honor thief walk into a bar…….
A priest, an Imam, a minister, a rabbi, a monk and a nun walk into a bar.
The bartender looks up and says
What is this, some kind of a joke?
In a desperate and fruitless attempt to drag the Democratic (not 'Democrat' like right wing losers say it) ticket down to the Trump-Vance level, bad comedy has broken out on Newstalkers.
The really comical thing here is the rampant denial on display from our friends on the left.
trying to defend the indefensible.
Hilarious!
Because drinking and getting a DWI (reduced to reckless driving) 30 years ago is disqualifying and indefensible? Get outta here!
Old news eh?
Speaking of driving, have you seen Shady J D's new campaign pick-up truck? J D Be Humpin That Olde Campaign Trail Now!
Let him borrow your couch did you?
lol ….. keeping it classy like usual I see.
Defending the indefensible
#3?
Number nine, number nine, number nine ……
Always happy to improve a mood that needs it.
You are welcome.
Then this should cheer you up...
You have friends on the left?
(Asking for a friend)
$200 fine, wow compared to Trump's $250,000 fine for being a liar that is chump change.
And $250K would be Trump-change...
"And he failed a field sobriety test, but his lawyer blamed the incident on a combination of his client's bad hearing and that the state trooper didn't turn his siren's on right away."
Took the honorable path and manned right up to being a hazard to society.