Walz is ‘ter­ri­ble in a cri­sis,’ says for­mer Repub­li­can Min­neso­ta Sen­ate leader

MINNEAPOLIS — A for­mer top Repub­li­can state law­mak­er says there are two con­cern­ing things about a poten­tial Gov. Tim Walz vice pres­i­den­cy: He “is ter­ri­ble in a cri­sis” and “how he spends money.“Paul Gazel­ka, for­mer Repub­li­can Sen­ate major­i­ty leader, shared his expe­ri­ence work­ing along­side Walz over the years, includ­ing dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and the 2020 riots.The for­mer law­mak­er said his ear­ly expe­ri­ences with Walz were col­lab­o­ra­tive, but that, even­tu­al­ly, “rather than work­ing with him, I was work­ing against him.”“I would­n’t say at first that he was dif­fi­cult to work with. He comes in with what I would say is kind of a coun­try charm, but that is not real­ly where he is try­ing to dri­ve his agen­da. It is much more lib­er­al,” Gazel­ka told Fox News Dig­i­tal in an exclu­sive interview.TIM WALZ HAS TIES TO MUSLIM CLERIC WITH AN …