• WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I love this.

    However, there is at least one close relation to Walz who doesn’t seem to support his platform.

    Walz’s brother, Jeff Walz, made waves after the New York Post dug up a series of Facebook posts he made last week denouncing his brother’s political future and warning he is not the “type of character you want making decisions about your future.” Cryptically, he also mentioned “stories (he) could tell,” but later told NewsNation that those “stories” were innocuous moments from their childhood.

    “Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing,” Jeff Walz said. “There’s really nothing else hidden behind there. People are assuming something else. There’s other stories like that, but I think that probably gives you the gist of it.”

    It’s like he turned him into a newt when they were kids. He got better, but still holds the grudge.

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      2 months ago

      Backwards appeals to Republicans. For them it’s a positive thing, and perhaps even intentional.

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Edit: Seems I completely misread the title myself. See reply below

    What’s interesting is that the headline says that but then it’s refuted further down.

    But family members closest to Walz, including his sister Sandy Dietrich, want people to know that while the people in the photo may be family, they’re merely distant cousins.

    “We weren’t close with them. We didn’t know them,” Dietrich told The Associated Press.

    And

    Herbster’s spokesperson Rod Edwards told Forbes a friend of the Walz family provided Herbster’s team with the photo. He also clarified to the AP that the family in the picture are the descendants of Francis Walz, who was the brother of Tim Walz’s grandfather.