Topline: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted $890,000 in campaign donations from employees – including C-suite executives – of 434 state vendors between 2019 and 2022, a new report from OpenTheBooks found.
Those same companies collected nearly $15 billion in payments from the state between 2019 and 2023, according to the state checkbook.
Key facts: The donations all went to Walz’s campaign for reelection as governor of Minnesota and were made before he became the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
CEOs, presidents and other executives of 86 state vendors were among the donors.
Employees of law firm Blackwell Burke donated $4,750 to Walz’s gubernatorial campaign, campaign records show, and separately received almost $200,000 from the state. Co-founder Jerry Blackwell was one of the prosecutors who helped convict Derek Chauvin of murder for the death of George Floyd. […]
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