Former wine and coffee bistro owner Lisa Hanson was once tossed in the clink for being in violation of Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s lockdown orders she said in an interview with Fox Neews Digital. Walz is now the vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris’ campaign against former President Donald Trump for the White House this fall. Hanson told the outlet that Walz’s measures “shut down and destroyed” her small business. She issued a warning to other American voters, saying, “You do not want tyranny at this level.”
And she’s right on the money. I most definitely do not want tyranny on that level or ANY level for that matter. We all got an up close and personal glimpse of the kind of oppression leftists are capable for the sake of the so-called “greater good” during the pandemic. And let me just say, there’s nothing “great” or “good” about it.
Fox News reported that the mother of 8 who is about to become a grandmother to her 18th grandchild, revealed that she had a clean criminal record, the only blemish being a speeding ticket she received when she was a teenager. Hanson and her husband had owned several businesses for three decades. The Interchange Wine & Coffee Bistro, located in the Albert Lea area, which is outside of Minneapolis, had been open for eight years at the time COVID reared its ugly head.
Her wine and coffee bistro initially complied with the shutdown ordered that March. However, Hanson said she watched for months afterward as Walz never fully re-opened the state when it came to businesses deemed non-essential, such as the bars, restaurants, gyms, dance studios and hair salons. By contrast, the governor never shut down liquor stores, the “big box stores” or even strip clubs.
“He shut down a lot of the mom-and-pop shops, those folks that were just trying to make a living and provide a great product and a great service,” Hanson said during the conversation with Fox News Digital. “In contrast, he allowed big box stores, etc. to stay open. Really incredible, an incredible use of tyranny against the people.”
Hanson eventually decided to re-open her business and defied Walz’s renewed shutdown order for bars and restaurants six times between December 2020 and January 2021. She was convicted in December 2021 on misdemeanor charges and received the maximum sentence of 90 days and a $1,000 fine. Hanson ended up serving two-thirds of her sentence, 60 days.
“This is the story that America needs to hear, that Tim Walz is not some cuddly, joyful coach, like all the things that the MSMs are calling him,” Hanson continued”That is not who this man is. This man would like to take your rights away. He will take your rights away. Because what happened to me could have happened to anybody. What happened to me will happen to you.”
Is this really the kind of man we want as our vice president? You know, the tiebreaker in the Senate that could result in legislation becoming law that destroys our liberty? If we ever, God forbid, have another pandemic, I don’t think Walz is the kind of leader I want having a heavy influence on policy. If he was willing to do this to an innocent woman with essentially no criminal record, you know he’d easily push for the same consequences on the national level for those who didn’t give unyielding compliance to tyrannical orders.
“My family has paid a dear price. While I was in jail, I missed out on Christmas with my family, I missed out on my wedding anniversary, and I also missed out on the birth of one of my grandchildren,” Hanson added during the interview. “I can never have that time back. That time was stolen from me. My business was destroyed. My business is gone. After everything that happened, Tim Walz and Keith Ellison destroyed my business. They wrecked my life.”
“I’ve heard some people say that Tim Walz is a real nice guy. Yeah, well he’s not. Take my word for it,” Hanson stated. “Through this whole process, I’ve gotten to know other people. Similar things have happened to them when they were trying to run their business and survive. Mostly women, by the way. So Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison really like to go after women. They’re bullies.”
“They’re bullies. And they like to go after women and torment and destroy women’s lives. This is what they have done in the state of Minnesota. So let America know you do not want Tim Walz as vice president. You do not want tyranny at this level,” she explained to Fox News. “I have seen firsthand. We, the people of Minnesota, have seen what Tim Walz, the type of evil he orchestrates if he is elected as vice president of this country. He, in lockstep with Harris, who is also evil, will perpetuate this same type of evil on the American people. We do not want that. So this is the truth about Tim Walz.”
“I would like to see Tim Walz impeached. I would like to see him prosecuted for the crimes he has committed against the people of Minnesota,” Hanson said emphatically.
She continued her talk with Fox by discussing how every American has God-given rights, enshrined and protected in the Constitution, to have their business open. She said that no law exists allowing Walz to take the kind of action he did during COVID, pointing out he stepped out of line with statutory law and constitutional law. Hanson said that Americans have the right to have their businesses open and to live their lives however they see fit, so long as they are staying within the law.
“We have a corrupt government that’s coming against us and saying, ‘you do not have the right to run your business,'” the former coffee bistro owner said. “That is not a republic. That is not how a republic acts. It’s a dictatorship.”
She then spoke about how she felt when she saw that Walz was the Democratic vice presidential candidate alongside Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Honestly, my feelings should not have been a surprise. But because of what I know about Tim Walz, because of the tyrant that I know he is. He’s wrecked so many lives in the state of Minnesota. He’s not done wrecking lives. He’s going to continue to wreck lives,” Hanson said. “I don’t use that word loosely, ‘evil.’ But the evil person that he is, it’s no wonder that the evil, Harris picked him to be her running mate,” Hanson remarked.
Think long and hard, ladies and gentlemen, before you cast a ballot for Harris/Walz this November.