Minnesota’s governor and Kamala Harris’s running mate gave a keynote address at Esri’s summer conference in San Diego.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024 was named presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s running mate, speaking at Esri’s User Conference in July 2024 in San Diego. , Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke in Southern California, making the case that a geography geek’s love of data and analysis is the key to effective government., held July 15-19 in San Diego.
He enlisted in the Army two days after his 17th birthday and spent the next 24 years in the Army and the Army National Guard. “My students could tell you when the Holocaust happened, but for them, it was a historical anomaly in time, and they could write it off to monstrous people,” Walz said.“They started looking at food insecurity, potential drought, just like the UN was doing around famine early warning.
But his career in the Army and the classroom turned out to be good preparation for the work of governing, he said. Minnesota legislators passed the “most aggressive” tax credit in the country for families with children up to age 18. But the challenge was finding people too poor to need to file taxes who could benefit from the credit.
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