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Iron Sight Coffee Brewing CEO Jon Harvey said it’s clear that the “Burn-and-Bail Ticket” of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz “should not be in charge of running our country.”

“It’s hard for me to believe that the Democrats can only put forth two of the most progressive politicians in our country,” Jon Harvey, president and founder of Iron Sight Coffee Brewing Co., said. “At a time when Gov. Walz is allowing unrest in his cities and Kamala Harris has implemented no-bail policies that keep offenders out of jail, it’s clear these two individuals should not be in charge of running our country. They benefit no one.”

Harvey was responding to an article from American Greatness that referred to the Harris-Walz ticket as the “Burn-and-Bail Ticket” because Walz allowed Minneapolis to burn during the 2020 riots, while Harris raised money for an organizations that bailed out the burners.

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, also addressed the “burn-and-bail” team during a video clip from CNN where he called them "an interesting tag team because Tim Walz allowed rioters to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, and the few that got caught, Kamala Harris helped bail them out of jail."

Walz faced criticism for his minimal response to the riots in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020. The riots resulted in at least two deaths, over six hundred homes, businesses, and buildings being looted and damaged, as well as the destruction of the city's Third Precinct building which was overrun by rioters and burned down after officers were forced to evacuate. 

While Harris has said she never personally donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which paid to bail rioters out after they were arreted, she was encouraging others to do so, posting the link on her social media and publically supporting the group. 

The MFF has received more than $35 million in donations since the killing of George Floyd and with the help of high profile advocates like Kamala Harris, Cynthia Nixon and Seth Rogen.

But the organization has also used the funds raised to bail out those accused of violent crimes, including defendants charged with murder, violent felonies, and sex crimes.

Harvey, who founded Iron Sight in 2023, is a longtime political activist in Utah and host of The Modern Conservative Podcast.

Based in Salt Lake City, Iron Sight has customers across the U.S., and donates a portion of all proceeds to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a non-profit that provides mortgage-free homes to Gold Star families and fallen first responder families with young children.