Dog parks, Diet Dew and car sickness: A collection of tidbits about Gov. Tim Walz

Walz was elected to Congress in 2006, the same year as Attorney General Keith Ellison, former U.S. Reps. Beto O’Rourke of Texas and Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. When Giffords visited Minnesota to celebrate the passage of gun safety measures, both Ellison and Walz said she was the star of the freshman class, the one everyone thought would one day be elected president.