Powerline: Abject failure in Minneapolis strikes back!

Last month I wrote about the Mayor of Minneapolis, Minn Jacob Frey. It was very easy to paint him as the first victim of these radical progressive liberals who turned on him when he wouldn't commit to abolishing the Minneapolis Police. The Minneapolis City Council ultimately voted unanimously to abolish the police department this is where they're at as of late.

However, what if there is a divide between the mayor of Minnesota's largest city and the Governor of Minnesota. We've been seeing one of the publishers of Powerline on Tucker Carlson Tonight a lot lately. There are a lot of issues in this very "progressive" city and one of the issues they talked about on FOX News was the increasing issues of homelessness. Seems to be a reoccurring theme in a lot of solidly blue cities. We're hearing NYC is increasingly having issues with the homeless as of late.

Anyway Powerline exposes a growing divide between two of the state's important leaders.

Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz is utterly incompetent. For the details, read the just-released issue of Thinking Minnesota, which drives political debate in my state. During the days of rioting, looting and arson in Minneapolis that followed the death of George Floyd, it became obvious that the situation was a disaster. Walz tried to distance himself from the debacle by saying in a press conference that fellow Democrat Jacob Frey, the Boy Mayor of Minneapolis, had been an “abject failure,” but Walz was now taking over and things would get better. Rarely has a politician been so definitively thrown under the bus.

Walz’s denunciation came as a shock to Mayor Frey, whose political career is presumed to be over. But Frey has finally counter-attacked, and in a man-bites-dog moment, the Star Tribune is willing to criticize a Democratic Governor of Minnesota. I am not sure this has ever happened before.

Frey has nothing to lose and knows where some of the bodies are buried. So we get this from the Star Tribune: Mayor Frey: Gov. Walz hesitated to deploy National Guard during Minneapolis riots.

The Strib’s story is based largely on texts and emails obtained from the City of Minneapolis via a public records request. The fact that the Strib was able to obtain them only two months after the events in question means that Frey was eager to get them out.

As you continue to read that post, it's excusable that the Gov. of Minn. as he prepared to deploy the Nat'l Guard a military force that he is the commander in chief of just thinks of those men & women as nothing more than cook. And he had no wish to really deploy them in a time of great civil unrest in Minneapolis. Frey lost control of his city, no doubt. Unfortunately he didn't get much help from his Governor who should be partners in solving this issue of civil unrest.

BTW, I got to find a little bit of Laura Ingraham's program out of Minneapolis. I hear Minneapolis is making property & business owners pay back taxes in order to clean up their lots. Shameful what's going on up there!

h/t Instapundit

I will admit I'm just about 15 days late on this.