A cupboard-level political appointee of Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz adorned the partitions of her house with posters of murderous communist dictators, in keeping with a photograph posted on Fb in December 2021 that was found by a Minnesota resident and shared with Fox Information Digital.
Ida Rukavina, the commissioner of Minnesota’s Division of Iron Vary Sources and Rehabilitation, was appointed by Walz in 2022 to supervise the financial growth of the northeastern a part of the state, the place the world’s largest untapped copper-nickel reserve sits.
On Dec. 19, 2021, Rukavina posted a photograph of her canine to Fb, in keeping with metadata connected to the picture, which seems to have been deleted. Within the background have been clearly seen posters of communist leaders Mao Zedong and Che Guevara adorning the wall. The poster of Mao, China’s communist dictator from the late Forties till his loss of life in 1976, and whose insurance policies have been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, included the communist slogan incessantly extolled throughout his rule: “Revolution will not be responsible.”
In the meantime, the poster honoring Guevara, a distinguished communist determine through the Cuban Revolution who murdered and tortured lots of of his political opponents, was paired with a novel on Rukavina’s bookshelf about his life.
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A picture of Iron Vary Sources & Rehabilitation Commissioner Ida Rukavina’s now-deleted December 2021 Fb submit exhibits her partitions adorned with communist posters. (Ida Rukavina/Fb)
Fox Information Digital reached out to each Rukavina and the Walz marketing campaign a number of instances however didn’t obtain a response by publication time.
Rukavina’s affinity for communist leaders comes amid scrutiny over Walz’s ties to communist China. By the governor’s personal admission, he has traveled there a number of instances, together with a visit in 1993 that was paid for by the Chinese language authorities. Walz, a former social research trainer, was typically accompanied on these journeys by his college students, one in every of whom described the governor turned vice presidential candidate as “Maoist to the core.”
Rukavina was tapped by Walz to make sure “native communities in northeastern Minnesota have the sources they should thrive.” A part of the area Rukavina oversees consists of one in every of America’s solely main home sources of nickel, which the USA at the moment exports from a wide range of different international locations, together with Russia, Canada and Norway.
In 2024, the USA skilled a unfavourable commerce deficit on uncooked nickel of $79.4 million, in keeping with the Observatory of Financial Complexity.
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Ida Rukavina, commissioner of the Minnesota Division of Iron Vary Sources & Rehabilitation, alongside her deputy commissioner. (Minnesota Division of Iron Vary Sources & Rehabilitation)
Rukavina is the daughter of the late Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Tom Rukavina, who has been described as holding communist and socialist sympathies.
“Tommy Rukavina is somebody I as soon as known as ‘Tommy the commie’ on the Home ground,” Congressman Tom Emmer, R-Minn., mentioned jokingly throughout remarks eulogizing his relationship with the late politician.
In the meantime, Rukavina reportedly as soon as boasted he was the final socialist within the Minnesota legislature, in keeping with native information outlet the Pioneer Press. “He’s gotten a bit conservative in his previous age. He’s a socialist now,” former Democratic state Rep. Carly Melin mentioned, the native information outlet added.
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The late Tom Rukavina was a member of the Minnesota Home of Representatives between 1987 and 2013. (Charles Bjorgen/Star Tribune through Getty Photos)
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In the meantime, final week, the Day by day Caller Information Basis uncovered that one in every of Walz’s different political appointees in Minnesota is a member of China’s third-largest political social gathering, which has been granted permission to function within the communist nation as a result of it pledges to “rally intently round” the Chinese language Communist Occasion’s Central Committee, the outlet reported.
The appointee, a Minnesota-based legal professional named Chang Wang, was tapped by Walz in 2020 to serve on the Minnesota Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, which advises “the Governor, the Legislature, state businesses, and Asian Pacific organizations and residents,” on points impacting the Chinese language Minnesotan neighborhood. Wang is at the moment the council’s vice chair, in keeping with his profile on the council’s official authorities web site, and his time period there’s anticipated to conclude in January 2025.
