How right-wing influencers spread lies about Minnesota lawmaker's assassination | Opinion by J. Patrick Coolican, Minnesota Reformer, 6/15/25
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-right-wing-influencers-spread-lies-about-minnesota-lawmaker-s-assassination-opinion/ar-AA1GKcwI
Once law enforcement sources began revealing a suspect, right-wing influencers ran with an insignificant detail: That Vance Luther Boelter was a “Walz appointee.”
Like many states, but even more so here, Minnesota is home to hundreds of nonpartisan and bipartisan boards and commissions, which are composed of thousands of people who typically win the appointment by simply volunteering. There are currently 342 open positions on Minnesota boards and commissions. Boelter was appointed to the Workforce Development Council by Walz’s predecessor Gov. Mark Dayton and reappointed by Walz.
It was the equivalent of calling a Sunday school volunteer an “appointee of the bishop.”
No matter, the Murdoch media machine, specifically the New York Post, had their headline: “Former appointee of Tim Walz sought….”
Cernovich had his greasy foil hot dog wrapper and began constructing a hat:
“The Vice President candidate for the Democrat party is directly connected to a domestic terrorist, that is confirmed, the only question is whether Tim Walz himself ordered the political hit against a rival who voted against Walz’s plan to give free healthcare to illegals.”
Walz had no such plan. He had signed an agreement to end eligibility for undocumented adults.
My emphasis
Much more about the ending of undocumented immigrants' eligibility for MinnesotaCare (Minnesota's version of Medicaid) is in the beginning of the article.
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In 2019, Walz named Boelter and dozens of others to his Governor’s Workforce Development Board,
My emphasis
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