Tim Walz was arrested on September 23, 1995. Walz was 31. He was a teacher and football coach. He was driving 96 in a 55 and the arresting officer smelled “a strong odor of alcoholic beverage” as stated on the police report. Walz failed a field sobriety test, a preliminary breathalyzer, and was ended up in a jail in Nebraska. Fast-forward years later when Tim Walz is running for political office and all of a sudden the story changes and Tim Walz begins lying about what happened.
Instead of owning up to the DUI and making a good example out of a bad experience, Tim Walz and his political team began saying he suffered from hearing issues and that’s why he was really locked up. Where does this information come from? It comes from the officer who arrested him back in 1995, as reported on MSN/Raw Story. Nebraska trooper Stephen Rasgorshek is the officer who pulled over Tim Walz that night. Rasgorshek is suggesting that Tim Walz later lied, changing the story so it didn’t make him look bad. The report said this about the Tim Walz DUI:
However, ten years later Walz appeared to have changed his story. When running for Congress in 2006, Walz’s campaign manager responded to a media inquiry regarding the DUI denying Walz had been drinking that night.
Instead, the staffer said Walz had hearing damage from his time serving in the National Guard and “couldn’t understand what the officer was saying to him.”
Rasgorshek expressed skepticism over the explanation, telling the Beast he has a loud voice and that hearing loss could not explain how Walz failed other field sobriety tests, including a gaze test administered at the scene.
“We were told that having a hearing problem had nothing to do with what the eyes are doing,” Rasgorshek told the Beast.
“Anyone can get a DUI. It’s what you do with it after you get the DUI,” Rasgorshek said. “If he had stuck with his story of, ‘Look, it changed my life and I stopped drinking,’ I would commend him, 1,000 percent.”
