Waukesha Times

Wisconsin State Sen. Julian Bradley (R-28) said Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz make a good pair because he "let rioters terrorize and burn" Minneapolis in 2020, and she raised funds to "bail them out of jail."

"While Tim Walz let rioters terrorize and burn Minneapolis, Kamala Harris was raising money to bail them out of jail," Bradley said in a post on X. "What a team."

Presidential Nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris named Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate on August 6.

Walz has been the governor of Minnesota since 2018, having won his re-election campaign in 2022. He served in the Army National Guard before being elected in 2006 to serve in the United States House of Representatives for Minnesota’s First Congressional District in Southern Minnesota.

Walz was the governor of Minnesota during COVID-19 lockdowns and during the Black Lives Matter riots. Minneapolis experienced the majority of the destruction during these riots; stores were ransacked, streets trashed, and a police station burned to the ground; with little to no repercussions for the protestors. At least two people were killed and more than 600 arrested as rioters caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across Minnesota.

During the lockdowns Walz set up an anonymous reporting system to allow people to snitch on their neighbors if they saw them breaking the mandated lockdown. He also failed to decisively respond to the riots before they spiraled out of control with the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct police station being overrun and destroyed by arsonists.

While Harris has said she never personally donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which paid to bail rioters out after they were arrested, she was encouraging others to do so, posting the link on her social media and publically supporting the group. 

The MFF has received more than $35 million in donations since the killing of George Floyd and with the help of high profile advocates like Kamala Harris, Cynthia Nixon and Seth Rogen.

Bradley has represented the 28th Wisconsin State Senate District since 2021. He graduated from graduated from La Crosse Central high school and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He previously worked as a telecommunications manager for Century Link, and as an operations manager for Northwestern Mutual. Bradley is a resident of Franklin, Wisconsin.