First appearance on FOXA former longtime Minnesotan who fled the state because of the governor’s policies and because his mother died “alone” in a nursing home warned, “I don’t want Tim Walz in a position to run this country.”
Cathy, who asked that her last name not be used, grew up in Minneapolis but moved to South Dakota in late 2020 because of Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s policies on crime and the coronavirus, she said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.
Cathy said she left Minnesota because her mother died of “loneliness” in a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If it weren’t for the COVID rules that Governor Walz put in place, one of my brothers could have been there with her. She didn’t have to be alone when she died, but the governor’s tyranny is the reason she was alone when she died,” Cathy told Fox News Digital. “We all know she died alone. No one should be stuck in a room by themselves for weeks or months, unable to touch or see their family.”
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Gov. Tim Walz waited several days before calling in the National Guard when riots ravaged Minneapolis in 2020. (Getty Images)
Kathy detailed how Minnesota’s policies had a detrimental effect on her mother’s care facility, saying that at one point the only way she could visit her mother was to stand outside the window. Eventually, a one-visitor-per-day policy was put in place, but there were still limitations and family visits were not allowed, she said.
Cathy visited her mother on the morning she died.
“I kissed my mother on the forehead before I left, but she passed away that day while I was undergoing chemotherapy,” she said. “I can’t imagine the loneliness she must have felt as she lay dying.”
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Cathy, who grew up in Minneapolis, added that rampant crime is worsening the city.
“It was very safe. It was really nice. I wasn’t scared anywhere,” she said of safety in the city. “Minneapolis is not safe anymore. Our son still lives just four blocks from the Minneapolis border, but he still hears gunfire at night. The crime situation is very concerning and they, especially Tim Walz, don’t seem willing to do anything to make it better.”
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) and Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz gesture during a campaign rally at the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 10, 2024. (Rhonda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images)
Cathy said the prospect of a Harris-Waltz administration is “frightening” because she has lived under Waltz’s leadership.
“Tim Walz is not who he says he is. He’s the ultimate liberal. He wants high taxes. He wants to control everything. He wants kids to have sex-reassignment surgery without parental consent. He promotes sanctuary states, allowing illegal immigrants into the country and protecting them,” she said. “It’s scary to think what they could do to this country if they were president and vice president.”
“He’s not a good old guy from southern Minnesota,” Cathy told Fox. “He’s a crazy liberal from southern Minnesota. That’s not the kind of guy we want. That’s not the kind of guy we want for our country.”
Cathy’s experience in Minnesota echoes that of many other residents who have sounded the alarm over their support for Walz’s running mate. Lisa Hanson, the former owner of Wine & Coffee Bistro who was jailed for violating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s lockdown orders, told Fox News Digital that Walz effectively “shut down and destroyed” her small business, warning Americans that “we don’t want this level of tyranny.”
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is greeted by Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz before speaking at a campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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“He closed down a lot of independent businesses that were trying to provide great products and great service to make a living,” Hanson said. “In contrast, the big box stores and others stayed open. It’s just unbelievable. It was an incredible amount of oppression on the American people.”
Governor Walz has also come under fire for setting up a COVID-19 hotline in 2020 where Minnesota residents could report suspicions that their neighbors were violating lockdown measures to authorities.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Harris-Waltz campaign for comment.
Fox News’ Daniel Wallace and Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.
