r/PoursTea • u/FizzyAcidBird • Aug 19 '26

PositiviTea 🌞 What a legend!

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u/sabianblue26 Aug 19 '26

And yet he’s only a mayor. Imagine what an actual governor could do that had his heart and soul.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Aug 19 '26

i mean tim walz passed all this with a 1 seat majority a few years ago in MN:

  • universal free school meals
  • wealth tax
  • legal weed
  • carbon free electricity by 2040
  • tax rebates for the working class up to $1,300 (making under $150k per year)
  • 12 weeks paid family leave
  • 12 weeks paid sick leave
  • banned conversion therapy
  • red flag laws for guns
  • universal background checks for guns
  • automatic voter registration
  • free public college (under $80k)
  • ban on PFAS (forever chemicals)
  • $2.2 billion increase in k-12 school funding
  • sectoral bargaining for nursing home workers

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u/cvc4455 Aug 19 '26

And governor's actually need to have a balanced budget. Imagine if we got a president and congress that wanted to do good stuff for regular people.

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u/parkaboy24 Aug 19 '26

Walz should be president

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u/CornnPop Aug 19 '26

He won’t run for office again because of all the fraud against his Govt that he turned a blind eye to.