Minnesota Mayors Clash With Governor Tim Walz for Refusing to Fly New State Flag, Which is Conspicuously Similar to the Flag of Somalia (VIDEO)
Back in December, the Gateway Pundit first reported that Minnesota was changing its state flag, and that the new flag was strikingly similar to the national flag of Somalia.
Months later, the flag is still causing internal strife in the state.
A number of mayors in Minnesota are refusing to fly the new flag and it is causing friction with Governor Tim Walz.
FOX News reported this a few days ago:
Minnesota mayors drag ‘ridiculous’ bill penalizing cities for not flying new controversial flag
Minnesota mayors are rejecting their state lawmakers’ attempt to penalize cities for not flying the new state flag.
Members of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party pushed legislation Monday to reduce state aid to a county or city that “flies or otherwise makes use of a state flag other than the design of the state flag as certified in the report of the State Emblems Redesign Commission.”
Champlin Mayor Ryan Sabas, whose city voted in favor of flying the original flag in February, called this bill a “ridiculous” reaction to a growing opposition movement.
“It’s just an absolutely ridiculous bill that Democrats are signing on to because they’re scared that this has gained traction,” Sabas told Fox News Digital. “Not that it is, it has gained attraction. Every week there’s another city or two or three that are passing the same resolution, that are moving forward, not staying silent anymore.”
The controversy is not dying down. It’s growing.
From FOX News today:
Walz hit with local revolt from Minnesota mayor refusing ‘ugly’ new flag: ‘People’s decision’
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz is facing a new challenge from a Minneapolis-area mayor who is refusing to back down from flying the original 1980s state flag. The mayor said the controversial flag redesign has left citizens out of the process and stuck with what consider an “ugly” replacement.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Champlin Mayor Ryan Sabas said that “in my nearly 10 years of being on the city council in Champlin and going on four years as mayor of this town, I have never heard from more people on any one issue than I did about the Minnesota state flag.”
The new flag has become a cultural and political flashpoint in a state already reeling from one of the largest fraud scandals in U.S. history, heavily involving the Somali immigrant community. The flag was approved by a 13-member commission created by the Democratic-controlled legislature in 2023. Critics of the flag say it is overly simplistic and some have even knocked it as bearing a resemblance to Somalia’s national flag.
It’s impossible not to see the similarities between Minnesota’s new flag and the Somali flag.
New Minnesota flag vs Jubaland state of Somalia flag.
Realize where we are. pic.twitter.com/dhNnvjrKRE
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 17, 2023
This local video report is full of liberals trying to claim that this is all about politics and election season.
Liberals just assumed people would be too stupid to see this for what it really is. They were wrong.
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