Beyond passing policy and spending through legislation, one of the core responsibilities of a legislator is oversight of the Executive branch. In Minnesota, the State Senate is given the responsibility to review the performance of Tim Walz appointed bureaucrats and votes to confirm or deny the appointments. 

Rather than complete these obligations, Democrats and some RINOs chose to abdicate their responsibilities by blocking confirmation votes for 114 of Walz’ hand-picked selections with procedural tactics. The full floor session can be seen here and the Senate Journal showing all the votes in writing can be found here.

The nomination review process of the Senate established in statute is the legislature’s most direct way to hold Walz’ Administration accountable for the massive fraud that wasted away billions upon billions in tax dollars. Minnesota state statute requires the Senate to offer advice and consent for all appointments that must receive a Senate vote. 

According to EVERY SINGLE Democrat in the State Senate, including the swing district, far-left, fake moderates Aric Putnam, Judy Seeberger, Rob Kupec, and Grant Hauschild, think that Tim Walz is doing a PERFECT job and his 114 nominations deserve ZERO scrutiny! Even if some of his nominees are qualified, the Senate nomination process should ensure that for the taxpayer’s sake.

One of Walz’ nominations, Commissioner of the Dept. of Corrections Paul Schnell, has kept men in the Shakopee female prison and is opposed by the MN Sheriff’s Association. Despite deserving a full-fledged debate, egotistical leftist Ron Latz argued that the GOP had moved nominations like this while they were in the majority. Latz is showing that he is a total hypocrite! It is wrong no matter which party is in power to avoid legitimate legislative responsibilities, appointments deserve vetting and oversight.

Another nomination was for Tikki Brown, the person who has overseen Minnesota’s CCAP fraud, including the Somali child care fraud exposed nationally by Nick Shirley. Democrats had zero interest in having any accountability for fraud.

Democrats have a one seat majority but never concede an inch to Republicans. Meanwhile, some RINOs are constantly caving to the radical left!

Democrats protected Walz and gave him unchecked power by proposing a series of motions that forced all of these nominations to return to committee to die. Of the 11 motions Democrats made, 7 had complete GOP opposition, resulting in 34-33 votes.

The first motion that did not have unanimous GOP opposition was made by radical socialist Omar Fateh. For whatever reason, GOP Senator Warren Limmer did not vote on the nominations of MN State Colleges & Universities Board of Trustees and the MN Higher Edu. Facilities Authority. The Senate vote was 34-32.

Following this vote, RINO Keri Heintzeman voted alongside Democrats to block confirmation proceedings for the MN Housing Finance Agency. The vote was 35-32. With rampant fraud in MN, Tim Walz’ appointees CANNOT be trusted!

Several votes on other nominations again returned to complete GOP opposition and complete Democrat support. This continued until the Tax Court nominations where 21 of the 33 GOP members folded! While Minnesotans are being overtaxed by Tim Walz, they are wondering why the majority of the GOP would forgo a proper nomination process of Walz’ Tax Court nominations! Though Democrat Ann Rest claimed the Tax Committee would take up the relevant nominations at their next meeting, the GOP should've realized that they were dealing with bad faith actors! See vote below:

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See the 114 nominations who were installed by Walz with zero oversight:

BOARD OF ANIMAL HEALTH

Peggy Hawkins

Abigail Maynard

Steve Neil

Brandon Schafer

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER

Brad Lindsay

MINNESOTA RURAL FINANCE AUTHORITY

Brent Kelsey

Gary Wertish

BOARD OF THE PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION

Sally Grans Korsh

Pasha Khosravi

BOARD OF THE MINNESOTA STATE ACADEMIES

Annette Freiheit

Hernan Moncada

Sara Pratt

Jamie Speier

Katherine Wangberg

BOARD OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Jinger Gustafson

Drew Hildenbrand

Melissa Schaller

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR LICENSING AND STANDARDS BOARD

Amy Aho

Justin Hoelscher

Kurt Stumpf

Jennifer Trask

Janie Yang

SCHOOL TRUST LANDS DIRECTOR

Aaron Vande Linde

BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES CHAIR

Todd Holman

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSIONER

Sarah Strommen

CLEAN WATER COUNCIL

John Barten

Steven Besser

Richard Biske

Richard Brainerd

Steven Christenson

Warren Formo

Brad Gausman

Kelly Gribauval-Hite

Holly Hatlewick

Annie Knight

Ole Olmanson

Peter Schwagerl

Jessica Wilson

LESSARD-SAMS OUTDOOR HERITAGE COUNCIL

Suzanne Baird

Tom Saxhaug

MINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD

Ed Brands

Daniel Katzenberger

Nicholas Martin

Angela Smith

MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY COMMISSIONER

Katrina Kessler

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES COMMISSIONER

Tikki Brown

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COMMISSIONER

Brooke Cunningham

MNSURE BOARD

Matthew Anderson

David Fisher

Stephanie Stoffel

Andrew Whitman

OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DIRECTOR

Dylan Ferguson

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

John Cowles

Dawn Erlandson

Jim Grabowska

Timothy Huebsch

Jacqueline Johnson

Jana Johnson

Roger Moe

Kathleen Sheran

George Soule

Cheryl Tefer

MINNESOTA HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES AUTHORITY

Bonnie Anderson Rons

Gary Benson

Mary Ives

David Rowland

Kenneth Westphal

MINNESOTA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

Eric Cooperstein

John DeCramer

Stephanie Klinzing

Terri Thao

DESTINATION MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION

Pamela Wheelock

BOARD ON JUDICIAL STANDARDS

Debbie Toberman

Timothy O'Brien

Nhia Vang

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS COMMISSIONER

Paul Schnell

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER

Robert Jacobson

BOARD OF THE ARTS

Carol Bruess

Jose Uriel Camarena Michel

Michael Charron

Emily Galusha

Phillip McKenzie

Michele Sterner

DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION COMMISSIONER

Tamar Gronvall

GAMBLING CONTROL BOARD DIRECTOR

Laura Wade

GAMBLING CONTROL BOARD

Alan De Jesus

Doug Forsman

Kate Luthner

James Nardone

Mike Sundin

MINNESOTA RACING COMMISSION

Melanie Benjamin

Barbara Colombo

Raymond Dehn

Dan Erhart

Johnny Johnson

Roy Johnson

David Koob

MINNESOTA STATE LOTTERY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Adam Prock

TAX COURT

Jane Bowman

Bradford Delapena

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL

Deb Barber

Anjuli Cameron

Tyronne Carter

Willetha Carter

Gail Cederberg

Reva Chamblis

Judy Johnson

Chai Lee

Robert Lilligren

Peter Lindstrom

Diego Morales

Yassin Osman

John Pacheco Jr.

Wendy Wulff