Closing Argument with Walter Hudson

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State Rep. Walter Hudson, R-Albertville, believes Minnesota must do better in how it handles repeat juvenile offenders.

He is offering a broad list of changes to the system in order to better protect victims of crimes committed by juveniles.

He said he felt compelled to propose the changes after an Alpha News report earlier this month. The report documented the Ford family’s fight for justice. Their son, Dalton Ford, 22, and his longtime girlfriend Tayler Garza were killed Easter Sunday in 2021 in a tragic crash. They were running to get coffee when Camille Dennis-Bond and her brother Leon Bond were drag racing each other on County Road 42 in Burnsville. Leon’s car crashed into their car, killing them both. Seconds before the crash, he was driving 114 miles per hour, court documents say.

State Representative Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice for the weekly legislative update. Topics include Democrats rushing their Blackout Bill through the legislative process with little scrutiny despite it impacting very sphere of human life. They also discuss driver's licenses for illegal aliens and a bill to prohibit mining in the Iron Range offered by a bunch of metro Democrats.

State Representative Walter Hudson joins Scott Hennen on WZFG The Flag, broadcasting to western Minnesota, to talk about an effort making its way through the legislature to document incidents which are not crimes but which make members of certain protected classes uncomfortable. An example offered by the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in testimony to the Public Safety committee was someone standing on the side of the road and getting yelled at by someone in a passing car. That would be enough to warrant documentation by the state. Why? To what end? Hudson and Hennen discuss the possibilities which lay at the bottom of a slippery slope.

Mitch Berg from the Northern Alliance Radio Network interviews State Representative Walter Hudson regarding a subversive bill working its way through the Minnesota legislature which would establish a reporting mechanism for any incident that a member of a protected class perceives to be "bias."

Rep Walter Hudson and Jeremy Munson discuss the DC Debt Limit debate, MN's Surplus, and new programs for spending hundreds of millions on Food for Kids and Child Care - programs that were robbed of a billion dollars by fraudsters. Walter also weighs in on efforts to restore voting rights for people no longer in prison, a bill to add inflation to forecasts, and HF1 which will be voted on tomorrow.

State Representative Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 for a weekly legislative session update. Topics include a peculiar incident where a testifier in committee (who would later be confirmed as a DACA recipient) claimed "our people" are voting, and House File 1 - the most extreme abortion policy in the United States and the world.

Transcript:

As a kid growing up, whenever I heard about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., my heart would swell with gratitude. When I considered his dream of a world where we would be judged by the content of our character rather than the color of our skin, I felt like his words had made my life possible – literally.

My dad was a black man who grew up in Detroit. My mom was white. Ten years before I was born, their marriage would have been illegal in several states. My existence, and that of my two younger sisters, was an act of defiance. But it didn’t feel that way to us. We were just kids growing up with our parents. Life wasn’t political. And that was the fulfillment of MLK’s dream, a world – even just within the walls of our own home – where race wasn’t an issue.

Beyond our walls, the rest of the world progressed as well. 

Integration occurred organically. Racist beliefs diminished, became punchlines which brought people together through laughter. The world truly became a better place, for which we all owed a debt of gratitude.

But then our course took a radical shift. A new focus on race took root in our institutions. Gratitude and reconciliation were displaced by grievance and division. The goal post which MLK had firmly set, merit-based character judgments without regard to race, was uprooted and replaced with a moving target – equity. Now, we were no longer going to judge each other based on the content of our character, but by the statistical disparities associated with skin color. Instead of gratitude for what we had, now we would look over the fence and covetously inventory our neighbor.

This massive step backwards has poisoned our culture, ruined our institutions, and soured a generation of children. We are now teaching kids that any failure or lack or inadequacy is not within themselves but due to oppression. It has taken any cell of gratitude and corrupted it into a tumor of grievance. Now, instead of looking at how we can improve ourselves – how we can learn, develop, grow, and achieve – we look to how we can disrupt, foment, and redistribute.

We were almost there. We had almost achieved the dream. We were within sight of a world where merit would serve as currency, and race would prove irrelevant. Instead, we’ve cast aside that dream, allowing grievance and complaint to become the content of our character.

On this MLK Day, we should resolve to correct our course. We should take a fresh look at Martin Luther King’s dream and rise to its challenge within ourselves. Each of us has total control over our attitude. We decide our values. We set our priorities. We bear responsibility for our actions. These things we can change today, at the speed of thought, by making a decision. When enough of us turn from grievance to gratitude, we will summon forth what he called “a bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood.” That’s why we celebrate him, because of the vision he cast for a peaceful world united through human kinship. We won’t get there by complaining and conniving, by looting or burning things down. We will get there by building up, developing merit, and earning respect.

State Rep. Walter Hudson and Jeremy Munson discuss several of the DFL's priority bills in detail, including HF1 - Unlimited Abortion, HF2, Paid Family Leave, HF3 Automatic Mail-in Ballots for Life, HF4, Driver's Licenses for people here without permission, HF5 Free School Lunch for All, HF6 Government Price Controls on Everything. Walter explains a bill he chief authored to require judges to impose proper sentencing on the third violent offense.

State Representative Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 for the weekly legislative update. Topics include the DFL majority's proposals for paid family medical leave and automatic voter registration.

On the day he's sworn in as a Minnesota state representative, Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice on AM 1130 Twin Cities News Talk reacting to Governor Walz inaugural address and the most radical legislative agenda the state has ever seen.