[FoxNews] Laos national convicted of sexually assaulting 10-year-old girl has slate wiped clean
Minnesota officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, last month pardoned an illegal immigrant who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and who was slated to be deported.
With the recommendation of the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC), the Minnesota Board of Pardons — led by Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — granted a pardon for Laos national Tou Lue Vang, 42, at its June 10 meeting, according to a letter informing Vang of the decision from Carli Stark, the executive director of the state CRC.
The pardon essentially gives Vang a clean slate.
"Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction," Stark wrote in her letter to Vang.
Vang was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Between 2002 and 2006, he repeatedly sexually assaulted the girl.
At one point, he offered her $10 to keep quiet about the abuse, according to DHS.
He pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in a plea deal that spared him from going to prison.
"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting."
Bis noted that Vang lost his legal status following his conviction.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Walz, the White House and the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted Vang for the assaults.
When he was arrested on charges in 2005, Vang admitted to having sexual contact with the girl but blamed cultural norms in Thailand, according to the complaint obtained by the New York Times.
The CRC, which includes nine members, voted to approve Mr. Vang’s petition in April. Four members voted in favor, two voted against, and three were absent, the Times reported.
The board takes the commission’s review into account but retains the ultimate authority to grant or deny pardons.
In his application, Vang cited his years of rehabilitation and argued that he has taken full responsibility for his actions.
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This should be used in multiple campaign ads across the country. It might wake up the average voter about what happens when you vote for far left Democrats.
[FoxNEWS] Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was reportedly found "unconscious" in his Washington, D.C. home last month before being taken to the hospital, as his condition and timetable to return to the Senate remain a mystery.
Audio from an emergency dispatch from a call on June 14, the day McConnell was sent to the hospital, released Wednesday by reporter Desirée Townsend and later reported by PunchBowl News revealed that the longtime Senate Republican was "unconscious," and that the dispatcher requested an Advanced Life Support (ALS) response.
McConnell, 82, has been absent from the Senate ever since, and it is unclear when he will return. His office did not return a request for comment on his condition, why he was hospitalized and when he would return to the upper chamber.
The day of McConnell’s hospitalization, his office released that the lawmaker "was admitted to the hospital this morning" and was "receiving excellent care." David Popp, his spokesperson, later said that McConnell was "working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery."
Senate Republican leadership said they had spoken with McConnell after the incident, too.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who replaced McConnell after his historic run as leader of the Senate GOP, said that he "is clearly dialed in to what’s going on."
"He’s following along with stuff we are doing this week up here," Thune said. "Very much so."
McConnell, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of this year, is in his second stint in the hospital of 2026 — he was hospitalized for eight days in February dealing with flu-like symptoms.
And over the last few years, he’s suffered medical episodes publicly and privately.
He fell and cracked his rib and got a concussion in 2023. He fell again in July of that year and shortly after had two different episodes where he froze up in front of cameras. In 2024, he fell at a Senate Republican lunch, and last year he tripped and fell in the Senate basement.
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KY law requires a special election and the Governor can't appoint even a temporary replacement. That was the first thing I checked when he went to the hospital.
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Ichecked and at least he isn't recorded as voting on any bills in the last two weeks. That'd be another level of awkwardness.
Just checked that myself, especially after the short answer said he "didn't vote in June, and had a medical emergency after his final vote on June 11."
[Yahoo] One week after DSA-aligned candidates scored ballot-box victories over establishment-backed contenders in two congressional primaries in New York City that grabbed outsized national attention, the group scored another major upset in a deep-blue U.S. House district in Denver, Colorado.
Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, who was first elected to Congress in 1996 and took office in 1997, was defeated by DSA-backed Melat Kiros, a first-time candidate and former attorney who is 29 years old.
"Another Democratic Socialist is going to Congress!," the DSA touted in a social media post. "Congresswoman Kiros will take the fight for a better world to D.C: to Abolish ICE, free Palestine, and win Universal Childcare and Medicare for All."
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Extremist leftists did well in several other Colorado primaries.
They’re taking the Democratic primaries with something like 10% of the Democratic voters, but the most fanatic 10%, willing to turn out when nobody else bothers. The same way that Zohran Mamdani won the primary in New York City.
Democrats can gaslight Americans all they want, but history is a great teacher.
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One of these states - NY, MI, CO, or CA - will be the first to say that they're no longer going to be part of a capitalist system. They'll start making deal with each other to provide a 'true alternative' and at that point...honestly, we're finished. Whether the USG tries negotiating or force, we'll never be the same afterwards, one way or the other.
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/\ I recommend the un-and-coming socialist state of Virginia and it's capital in Richmond as the site of the fledgling Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) capital. Of course there will be pushback from Illinois, but winter weather, the lack of proximity to existing power, and an overcrowded O'Hare airport will preclude the Illinois option.
Historical precedence exists and it's an easy commute from Langley, the Supreme Court on First Street NE, Washington, D.C. and Dulles International which all make Richmond the hands-down choice.
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