HomeFor democracy's sake and for Europe's sake, we need to vote blue!Sluffy wrote:He still isn't "the highest ranking member of the armed forces ever to serve in Congress" if you feel the need to quote yourself then the least you should do would be to edit out your fake news after it was pointed out to you some days back.
Anyway this is the article published on the same day as your original post giving the strengths and weaknesses of the Vice President options that Harris had.
Top contenders emerge in Harris VP hunt
Tim Walz, Minnesota governor
Mr Walz is a battle-tested leader who served 12 years in Congress before becoming governor in 2018.
He has gained national attention for his strategy calling Donald Trump and JD Vance "weird".
The phrase caught on with a number of Democrats - including Ms Harris. "He's just a strange, weird dude," Mr Walz said of Trump during a fundraising event on Monday.
His plainspoken and small-town Midwestern persona could appeal to independent and conservative voters.
The 60-year-old led Minnesota through the 2020 protests over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis
He deployed the National Guard to help quell riots that broke out during the demonstrations.
Mr Walz served 20 years in the National Guard, taught high school and also worked as an assistant football coach.
Vulnerabilities: Mr Walz's political foes have criticised his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 protests, with Minnesota GOP chairman David Hann recently telling Fox that he believes Mr Walz "was fearful of alienating his progressive base" with a more forceful response.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce4q832w7dgo
Hope Kamala and Tim win though!
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He was the highest ranking non-commissioned officer to have served in Congress. While other veterans have served almost all of them were commissioned officers during their military service while a couple were corporals or sergeants. Governor Walz was a command sergeant major who actually retired as a Master Sergeant.
The confusion on his rank was pretty simple to explain. He was given a brevet (acting) promotion to Command Sergeant Major. As such he wore the insignia of a csm and was addressed as such but was paid as a master sergeant and retired with master sergeant's pension rights etc.
The reason his promotion to command sergeant major was not permanent (according to the Minnesota National Guard) is that there was a single piece of academic coursework he would have needed to complete but he chose not to do it as he was already in the retirement process.
The confusion on his rank was pretty simple to explain. He was given a brevet (acting) promotion to Command Sergeant Major. As such he wore the insignia of a csm and was addressed as such but was paid as a master sergeant and retired with master sergeant's pension rights etc.
The reason his promotion to command sergeant major was not permanent (according to the Minnesota National Guard) is that there was a single piece of academic coursework he would have needed to complete but he chose not to do it as he was already in the retirement process.
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