PRAIRIE du CHIEN, Wis. (WRN) — A Wisconsin congressman ridiculed Minnesota’s governor following the weekend political violence there.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz praised murdered state Representative Melissa Hortman in a Sunday morning post to ‘X.’
In a response directed at Walz on the same platform, Wisconsin 3rd District Representative Derrick Van Orden wrote “You appointed the crazy zealot that murdered her to one of your boards, you clown,” and later that Walz is a “horrible governor that appoints political assassins to boards. Good job, stupid.”
That was a reference to Walz’ reappointment of accused assassin Vance Boelter to a nonpartisan workforce commission. A source in Walz’s office told The Minnesota Star Tribune that commission has about 60 members and that Walz did not know Boelter.
Van Orden also criticized the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for reporting on his posts, accusing the paper of not telling “the whole story,” because Walz called on Democrats to be “meaner” in a recent speech.