A crowd of fairgoers surround Action for Liberty’s “Never Walz” booth at the Minnesota State Fair. (Hank Long/Alpha News) Share This Story
The sound of a gameshow-like spinning wheel was almost as constant as the smell of fried foods on a stick along a stretch of Underwood Street on a mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon. A line of about five dozen people snaked its way down the boulevard stretching southward to Ye Old Mill at Carnes Avenue.
“You landed on Covid snitch line!” a volunteer from behind the “NEVER WALZ” booth shouted to a throng of onlookers who either cheered, jeered or were indifferent.
“You just missed ‘Stolen valor!’” someone yelled from a crowd that had gathered.
The wheel spinning participants, a pair of young women, politely received their “Never Walz” fans, affixed them atop the large pouch of their backpacks and jaunted away.
They were two of about 5,000 or so visitors who stop by booth daily, said Jesse Smith, a staff member for Action for Liberty.
The conservative grassroots organization has provided an intentionally provocative presence at the Great Minnesota Get-Together the last handful of years. The location of its booth has changed on occasion, but regardless of where it