Who is Tim Walz’s brother Jeff Walz? Why doesn’t he like Tim?
67-year-old Jeff is Tim’s elder brother with zero faith in Tim. He’s contemplating publicly endorsing Donald Trump but is not sure whether he should drag the entire family in it. “The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future,” he said adding that Tim did not inform the family that he was running for the vice president.
Jeff has always been a Trump supporter, a registered Republican who donated $20 to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. On March 30, 2023 when Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels, Jeff wrote: “We’ve just become a third world banana republic.”
Jeff lives on the Florida panhandle in Freeport with his wife Laurie. He and Laurie owned So Fine Music in Inverness, a musical instrument and equipment store from 2001 to 2010, according to public records. Walz was also an assistant principal at a Citrus County middle school in the early 2000s, New York Post reported. Laurie Walz on Facebook is friends with Tim Walz and other family members.
Why Jeff hates Tim is not clearly known. Like Tim, Jeff also used to work at a school — an assistant principal at a middle school in Citrus County, Florida, in the early 2000s. They both have criminal cases — while Tim Walz pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving over a 2005 drunk driving arrest, Jeff pleaded guilty for allegedly stealing from a Walmart store in 2001.