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(LifeSiteNews) – As political observers continue to pore over Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s far-left record in light of Vice President Kamala Harris selecting him as her presidential running mate, renewed attention is being put on his draconian practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a hotline he established for private citizens to report neighbors for violating lockdowns.
As detailed by Alpha News in 2022, the so-called “snitch line” ran from March to November 2020, during which an estimated 10,000 reports (many of which are believed to have been spam emails) were taken on excessive numbers of people at retailers that had been allowed to remain open, “non-essential” shops continuing to operate, outdoor dog-walking, playing basketball in parks, small home parties, social distancing not being observed, and even in-person church services. Walz justified the measure as necessary to free up 911 to take more conventional emergencies.
“We’re not going to take down a phone number that people can call to keep their families safe,” he told Republican critics at the time, Reason recalled.
One such message received in October 2020 was that a Lutheran church was “planning to hold church services” where “hundreds” were expected, including “serving meals in the church dining hall. I don’t believe this fits with legal requirements.” The snitch claimed to be aware of “multiple families that attend this church” who had COVID at the time.
Walz’s restrictions on religious worship prompted several lawsuits, at least one of which prompted a victory in which a “federal district court of Minnesota overruled Governor Walz’s shutdown of the churches in the Northland Baptist case and the resulting settlement required him to refrain from any further discrimination against churches in his COVID-related orders,” the Upper Midwest Law Center told the New York Post, although the ruling was later reversed on appeal.
The lockdown snitch line is just one aspect of Walz’s far-left record, which also includes enticing young people to take COVID vaccines with a chance to win a $100,000 scholarship, making Minnesota a “sanctuary” for underage gender “transition” procedures illegal elsewhere in the country, and protectingeffectively unlimited abortion until birth.
Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden as Democrats’ presumptive 2024 nominee last month, announced her selection of Walz earlier this week, in surprise news that appears to signal Democrats’ desire for a purer left-wing ticket than balancing Harris’s own record with someone more moderate.
National polling aggregations by RealClearPolitics and RaceToTheWH currently indicate that Harris has narrowly overtaken former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in both national polling and Electoral College projections since replacing Biden as Democrats’ presumptive nominee, although it remains to be seen if her selection of Walz swings the race back in Trump’s favor.