Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is once again facing accusations of misrepresenting his past after a 2006 letter from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce resurfaced during Walz’s campaign for vice president.

When Walz first ran for Congress in Minnesota, he boasted on his campaign website that he had received an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce in 1993 for his work with the business community, according to a 2006 Post Bulletin article.

However, he never received such an award, although it was announced to him in a scathing letter from then-President of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, Barry L. Kennedy.

“We have investigated this matter and can confirm that you have not received any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” the letter to Walz dated November 1, 2006, states.

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“I will not draw any conclusions about your intentions from the inclusion of this line in your bio. However, we politely ask that you remove all references to our organization as it could be viewed as an endorsement of your candidacy. It should be noted, however, that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed your opponent, Congressman Gil Gutknecht, for his support of small business issues,” Kennedy continued.

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The letter was unearthed last week by Minnesota-based Alpha News after the controversy gained momentum locally in 2006.

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The Post Bulletin, a Minnesota newspaper based in Rochester, reported in 2006 that Walz’s congressional campaign updated its website to show that Walz had not won an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, but rather an award from the Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce, known as the Jaycees. The campaign manager at the time dismissed the problem as a “typo,” the paper reported at the time.

When Fox Digital contacted Harris and Walz’s team about the controversy in 2006, the team said Walz often spoke “candidly and spontaneously.”

“Governor Walz speaks like real people – openly and spontaneously. The American people appreciate that Governor Walz calls a spade a spade rather than talking like a politician, and they recognize the difference between someone who occasionally slips the tongue and a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” the campaign said.

The claim follows a long history of accusations against Walz that he misrepresented himself and his past, most notably a slew of veterans accusing the Gopher State Democrat of misrepresenting his military career.

Walz served in the Army National Guard for 24 years before retiring in 2005, when he launched a successful congressional campaign and served as a member of the US House of Representatives represents Minnesota from 2007 to 2019.

After Vice President Kamala Harris named him as her running mate, Walz was sharply criticized by a number of veterans for allegedly making false statements about his military service and for publicly posing as a retired “Command Sergeant Major,” among other things.

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Walz was promoted to Command Sergeant Major after a deployment to Italy in 2004, but completed his training with the U.S. Army Sergeant Major Academy to retain the rank upon retirement. Walz instead retired as a master sergeant, one pay grade below command sergeant major.

“For 20 years, they let this guy get away with lying that he was deployed to Iraq, which he wasn’t, and he retired as a command sergeant major, which he wasn’t. I mean, those are just blatant lies,” Virginia Republican Senate candidate Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain, told the New York Post this month of Walz.

The battalion commander of Walz’s former Minnesota Army National Guard unit also sent a scathing message to Harris’ running mate earlier this month for portraying himself as a “retired command sergeant major.”

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“He has not earned the rank of E9 nor successfully completed any mission,” John Kolb, who served as a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery from 2005 to 2007, wrote in a social media post this month. “The fact that he continues to hold on to the title is an insult to the noncommissioned officer corps. I can sit in the cockpit of an aircraft, that does not make me a pilot. Likewise, he chose a different path when the demands of service and leadership at the highest levels became real.”

The rank of “retired Command Sergeant Major” was sponsored by the Harris The campaign received support until earlier this month, when Walz’s biography on the campaign website was changed to say that he “served as a Command Sergeant Major.”

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Source of the original article: Walz was again accused of misrepresentation in a scathing letter that was uncovered: “Remove all references”