Following Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz being announced as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Jacob Reitan, a former student at Mankato West High School, spoke with NBC News' Jen Psaki about the impact the Walz's had on his life.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and now Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, was a high school teacher and football coach in rural Minnesota nearly two decades ago. He also devoted time and energy to help his students create the school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance in 1999, and several students who were part of it remember “Mr. Walz” as goofy and accepting of everyone.
” Larissa Beck, 38, attended the GSA meetings as an ally during her time at Mankato West until 2004, and she had Walz as a history teacher for 10th grade. Beck now works in disability services and advocacy, and she said that when she ran into Walz at the state Capitol in March, he remembered her. “We’re talking 20-something years ago, and to have your 10th-grade geography teacher remember you after all of that time, it means something,” she said. “I couldn’t call him Gov.
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