Governor Walz spent $ 430,000 in money from taxpayers for legal preparation before the GOP GRILLING

The legislators of the Minnesota Republican States did not retain criticism after the governor of new Tim Walz spent $ 430,000 in money from taxpayers to prepare for a hearing of the Congress of the Chamber surveying the Blue State Governors for their “sanctuary city” policies.

Invoices obtained by the Star grandstand Du Minnesota discovered that the Walz office had contracted with the Great Gates World Cabinet to prepare for the Governor’s mid-June hearing before the GOP supervised supervisory committee, which included questions about its policies and other policies in the city of the Sanctuary of Blue State Governors.

In May alone, Walz incurred legal fees of around $ 232,000, according to the invoices that Star Tribune obtained. This has reached a rate of around $ 516 per hour, noted the local point of sale.

In total, according to Star Tribune, K & L Gates worked with the Walz office of April 10 at the hearing of June 12, costing taxpayers $ 430,000 for legal preparation.

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The Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker and the governor of New York Kathy Hochul attend a household reform audience on June 12, 2025, at the American Capitol in Washington, DC, DC, (AP photo / Julia Demaoree Nikhinson)

Minnesota GOP representative Jim Nash, one of the two Republicans of the State Consultative Consultative Commission, asked why Walz felt for external advice rather than working with state lawyers and public relations specialists.

“Half a million dollars of money from taxpayers to prepare the governor to go to his old trampling fields seems exorbitant, especially since the AG of the state of Minnesota was at the Congress with Walz at the same time, and the two could certainly understand how they needed,” he said.

Nash added that he intended to dig more deeply to examine the invoices obtained by the star gallery.

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Governor Tim Walz attracted the counterpou to the hiring of an external legal advisor to prepare for a GOP Gilling on Capitol Hill in June, which left Minnesota taxpayers to an invoice of almost $ 500,000. (Getty Images)

The representative of the Minnesota Republican State, Harry Niska, noted that “there does not seem to be a legitimate legal interest in the State which accumulates almost half a million dollars of what is equivalent to the consultation in matters of public relations”.

“Tim Walz spent 12 years at Congress – he knows these audience rooms inside and outside, and he certainly knows how to behave in this type of frame. Asked Niska.

“To be clear, there does not seem to be any legitimate legal interest in the State to accumulate almost half a million dollars of what is equivalent to RP class services when he tries to lay the foundations for a presidential campaign that is absolutely nowhere. It is inadmissible to make personal political aspirations of Minnesota.”

In response to criticism of Walz’s decision to contract with K & L Gates, the governor and his team have bypassed to offer an explanation. Instead, they suggested that the blame fell at the feet of the Republicans for having held an audience that was useless for “gallery”, according to the star gallery.

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Teddy Tschann, a spokesperson for Walz, described the audience as a “political shot planned on the Caxpayer Dime”, reported the star gallery.

“They were too busy playing so that the cameras even pretending to hear the Walz governor about the balanced approach of minnesota to immigration,” added Tschann. “What is most frustrating is that Tom Emmer and Pete Stauber planned this show knowing what would cost it and still did it.”

Asked directly about the legal bill, Walz told journalists that the audience led by the GOP was “not where I wanted to spend money. It was not that I wanted to spend my time, and that certainly proved that there was nothing else than to use it as a grandmother”.

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Although the heavy legal invoice has collected the reactions to Walz this week, it would not be the first time that a governor had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal advice. The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, said earlier this year after attending an audience in the national capital that she expected to pay around $ 650,000 in the law firm who helped her prepare.

The city of Denver also provided more than $ 250,000 for an external legal advisor at the start of this year to prepare the city mayor Mike Johnston, for a conference audience.

Fox News Digital contacted the Walz and K & L Gates office to comment but did not receive a response either.