Congressmen Tim Walz and Chet Edwards Announce Walz’s Endorsement by Veterans of Foreign Wars PAC and Local Veterans

 

Veterans for Walz Announce Their Support of Walz’s Reelection Bid

 

Congressmen Tim Walz and Chet Edwards (D-TX) announced that the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee (VFW PAC) and a broad group of veterans from Rochester and across southern Minnesota are supporting Walz’s reelection bid.

 

Walz said the endorsement of the VFW PAC, the only political action committee among the nation’s major Veterans Service Organizations, was a show of support for his strong advocacy on behalf of veterans and their families.  In its endorsement, VFW PAC said that its board of directors decided to back Walz because of his “strong support for veterans, national security and military personnel issues.”

 

“I am so proud to receive the endorsement of the VFW PAC,” Walz said. “The 2.2 million members of the VFW, its auxiliaries and their families are a strong voice for America’s veterans and I am thrilled to have their support behind my reelection.”

 

“As a member of the VFW, I am proud to stand with Congressman Walz,” said Wayne Uptagrafft, Commander of the Korean War Veterans of Rochester.  “He’s fought for veterans while he’s been in Congress and I’m going to work to make sure he’s able to return to Congress to continue his good work.”

 

Rep. Edwards, the powerful Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans’ Affairs, said that he came to Minnesota to help launch the formation of Veterans for Walz. 

 

            "Tim Walz, a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard and retired Command Sergeant Major, is a tireless adovcate for our veterans in Congress,” Edwards said. “We need to keep Tim Walz in Congress. He led the fight to increase funding for our veterans and improve GI Bill benefits.We need to re-elect Tim Walz."

 

Walz and Edwards worked closely together over the last two years to increase funding for the VA.  Their efforts paid off when Congress provided the single greatest increase in funding for veterans’ programs in the VA’s 77-year history. 

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Some Veterans for Walz in southern Minnesota:

Gary Alvin Rupp, Albert Lea

Warren David Jensen, Albert Lea

Bob W Sherman, Albert Lea

Gary Edward Lee, Altura

Charles Howard Kernler, Altura

Allan Jerome Wesely, Austin

Harry Stevens, Austin

Vernell A Larson, Austin

Dwight Ault, Austin

Michael William Bell, Austin

Danny Allen Lee, Austin

James N Goudy, Austin

Mark Tupper, Avoca

Angelo Peter Petri, Byron

Thomas Charles Murphy, Caledonia

Delano G Paulson, Dodge Center

Robert Dean Hanson, Elkton

James Robert Craig, Fairmont

James Allan Hardt, Fairmont

William G Barnard, Good Thunder

William Joseph De Bates, Hardwick

Bernard Goodwin Hagen, Hartland

Rodney Ray Peterson, Kasson

Lance Peterson, Kasson

F Joy Spooner, Kellogg

Thomas A Hogan, La Crescent

Linden Darrell Iverson, Lake City

Stephen A Erickson, Lanesboro

James Roy Ruen, Lanesboro

Michael James Gjere, Lanesboro

Jerome A Patzner, Lewiston

Dale E Moerke, Luverne

Charles Fred Zea, Madelia

David Christopher Bonnifield, Mankato

Robin Roy Grinnell, Mankato

Timothy W Scott, Mankato

Patrick D Flynn, Mankato

Eugene Harvey Goheen, Mankato

Steve Carl Danielson, Mankato

Eric H Steinmetz, Mankato

Thomas Glen Weir, Mankato

Dennis Durand, Mankato

Kent Harrison, Mankato

Con Hiller, Mankato

Thomas Lawler McNeil, Mantorville

Carroll Lewis Elijah, New Ulm

Randall E Kroening, New Ulm

John Kevin Makepeace, New Ulm

Michael J Huss, New Ulm

Roger P Zwach, New Ulm

Roger S Thiem, North Mankato

Harvey Peter Suedbeck, North Mankato

David J Wolf, North Mankato

Peter Nicholas Seykora, Owatonna

Ross Lloyd Leuning, Owatonna

Peter A Larson, Owatonna

Larry H Pierce, Owatonna

Otto Millard Nelson, Owatonna

Howard A Lohmann, Owatonna

Richard Hackerson, Owatonna

Bill Goldy, Owatonna

Alan Jay Lipowitz, Peterson

Donald Paul Broskoff, Pine Island

Robert Norman Emerson, Plainview

David L Olson, Rochester

John H MacLaughlin, Rochester

William Francis Born, Rochester

Clark A Tuttle, Rochester

Garry David Lloyd, Rochester

Paul E Munnis, Rochester

Philip J Castrovinci, Rochester

Jack P Whisnant, Rochester

James R McEvoy, Rochester

Thomas Scott Robinson, Rochester

Joseph Adam Pesch, Rochester

Fremont Douglas Lee, Rochester

Ben William Befort, Rochester

Eugene Jerome Kivi, Rochester

Robert Eliot Hyatt, Rochester

Norman Mitchell Oppegard, Rochester

Ervin William Miller, Rochester

John Alfred Dalin, Rochester

Thomas Robert Demarino, Rochester

Lyle Eugene Abrahamson, Rochester

Wayne Uptagrafft, Rochester

Brian McGlinch, Rochester

Billy Fay Benedict, Rollingstone

Russell Pilegaard, Ruthton

Lee Paul Carlson, Saint Charles

Chuck Carlson, St. Peter

Patricia Joan Laska, Wabasha

Catherine Ann Gallenberger, Wabasha

James Niemantsverdriet, Wabasha

Howard James Scott, Wabasha

Jack Chester Hoppe, Wabasha

Seymour William Ford, Wabasha

Mark J Barens, Waseca

Melvin Leroy Strand, Waseca

Archie Baumann, Wells

John R Ambuhl, Winona

William D Nepper, Winona

John Kenneth Pereda, Winona

Dwight Dennis Nelson, Winona

George R Oreilly, Winona

Richard  Cocker, Winona

Edward J Petschow, Winona

Jerry James Schroeck, Winona

Richard E Shira, Winona

Darol E Lee, Winona

Charles Robert Bell, Winona

Orval A Lund, Winona

Jay P Klein, Worthington

Robert Lee Emary, Worthington

Simon Henry Koster,Worthington

 Wynn Kearney, Mankato