A few interesting tidbits about Walz, I read in my newspaper, this morning.
Sorry for the bad translation !!
*He named a highway after Prince and signed the bill in purple ink. "I think we can say this is the coolest bill signing we've ever done," he said as he signed the bill designating a stretch of Highway 5 as the "Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway," in honor of the musician who lived in Minnesota.
*He was one of the first to support gay rights. At Mankato West High School in Minnesota during the 1990s, he sponsored a gay-straight alliance and noted that it was important at the time for the sponsor to be "the football coach, who was a soldier, heterosexual, and married." When he won his seat in the House in 2006, in a conservative district, he ran on a platform supporting same-sex marriage.
*He and his wife had their two children through in vitro fertilization. It took them seven years of fertility treatments to have their daughter, whom they named Hope. Mr. Walz publicly shared this experience after a Supreme Court decision in Alabama challenged in vitro fertilization treatments in that state.
*He is Lutheran. More specifically, he sometimes describes himself as a "Minnesota Lutheran." "Because we're good Minnesota Lutherans, we have a rule: if you do something good and talk about it, it no longer counts," Walz joked during a speech last spring. "So you have to make sure someone else talks about you."
*He stopped drinking after being convicted of driving under the influence in 1995. Mr. Walz said he quit drinking alcohol after being pulled over for speeding in 1995 and failing a sobriety test. His wife told him at the time, "You have obligations to people. You can't make stupid choices."
*He doesn't drink coffee either. He prefers Diet Mountain Dew, just like his Republican counterpart.