…votes down the proposed Inspector General’s office – not so much a “MN DOGE” as a someone empowered to go after things like systemic fraud – this happened:

They may not have been quite ready to file the next round of charges, but were forced into action Sunday when they learned one woman they are targeting had booked a sudden international flight. The FBI arrested Hibo Daar at MSP before she could board that flight to Dubai. 

Court records show Daar claimed to serve 1 million meals to children while operating out of an office in a business center on East Hennepin Avenue. She collected $2.4 million in taxpayer money, but federal investigators believe her meal site, “Northside Wellness,” was fake and that she actually spent less than $2,000 on food.

Katie Porter, former congresswoman from Orange County, is onto something – and, presumably, smoking some of the same ditch weed the DFLers who funded the Southwest Light Rail were into:

San Francisco to Oakland is 12 miles.  Even driving an SUV and paying Californnia’s absurd gas prices, that’s half the price of the train. 

And if you’re commuting for work?  $12.65 a day is $63.25 a week, which is about $3162 a year.   You’d have to be paying some pretty ridiculous parking fees to make that worthwhile.

Which may be true in Oakland (?), and the parking fees in Minneapolis and especially San Francisco will definitely wreck you.  Eden Prairie, less so.

But when you drive, you don’t as much opportunity to get mugged, or step on a syringe.

Or have your kids see hookers plying their trade:

So I guess transit get the “W”!

He’s gonna run for Governor again:

Of course, the little gnome will spend the next 18 months dodging debates.  But his Veep bid last year, and his newfound rise to national prominence, have given people a whole lot more material. 

As has the governor himself:

The little gnome never gets tired of “Nazi” references, does he?

I bet he does not see (badda boom) the problem with this…

Tony Snow dies.

Democrat “Influencers”:  “Hah!  Conservative puppet had it coming!

Ronald Reagan dies.

Democrat “Influencers”:  “Hah!  The only good thing he ever did was die!”

No, really:

Jerry Falwell dies.

Democrat “lnfluencers”:  Although we believe in neither God nor Hell, he’s certainly going to one and not the other!

George HW Bush dies.

Democrat “lnfluencers”:  Good riddance!

Steve Scalise almost dies.

Democrat “lnfluencers”:  “OK, that’s one semi-automatic rifle we can make an exception for!”

Rush Limbaugh dies.

Democrat “lnfluencers”: “The world is a better place today!”

Trump survives two assassination attempts.

Democrat “lnfluencers”: “Maybe there’ll be a third try!

Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis revealed:

Conservatives:  “He was a lousy president, but also a human.  I pray for a recovery”.

Democrat “Influencers”: “Don’t you dare politicize this man’s illness!”

Literally, hundreds of them, mostly identical, in the past 24 hours.

But while I have no desire the politicize this, I would like to medicalize it:

If the medical staff actually missed this cancer., in one of the most examined people on earth for the past four years, then it’s pretty epic malpractice.

If they didn’t, then this is yet another coverup. 

So why now?

To draw attention away from the utterly damning Hur recordings?

This was recorded shortly after 10/7 – a geopolitical moment when the western world needed a President, not an auto-pen.  

Pepperidge Farm does.

But the DFL seems to have forgotten it:

The DFL has staked its electoral future on giving free healthcare and education to illegals, in a state where the middle class is having a hard time affording either.

Which is something one might expect them to do for their, er, voters.

Huh. 

“Two weeks go stop the spread!”

“President Biden is sharp as a tack!”

And now…

Tim Walz’s statements have the half-life of an ice cream cone in a hot car. 

Scene: David Hogg walks into meeting at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, with DNC market researchers:

Hogg: “So whadda we got?”

Researcher: “Focus groups say your angry androgynous hipster thing has low approval among male male voters”

Hogg: “Low? How low?”

Researcher: “0%”

Hogg: “That bad? Huh. So what do I need to do?”

Researcher: “Be more masculine”.

Hogg: “You mean, like Tim Walz?”

Researcher: “Er…sure. Like Tim Walz”. (Rolls eyes).

And SCENE

DIRECTOR’S NOTE:  While most of these “dramatization” pieces are pretty fanciful satire, not all of them are.

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Rumors of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline are greatly…

…er…

…oh, I can’t keep a straight face:

Nothing to see here, peasants.

Minnesota schools failed during the pandemic.  Some might say they collapsed. 

Governor Klink isn’t gonna let that happen again:

Aside from trying to deal with the deficit he created, he’s trying to pay back his cronies in the Teachers Unions. 

Rep. Emma Greenman – who seemed to have found her happy place being the DFL state rep who was most aggressive about shirking her job early in the legislative session, before the District 40B special election – sounded off on the ethics issues with Keith Ellison:

“Political and not very useful” is actually a great capsule summary of Rep. Greenman. 

Maybe I’m too used to kicking at the football Lucy proffers, having it taken away, and yelling “AAAAAARGH” as I sail into the bushes yet again.

But I saw this last week…

But hope springs eternal .

Maybe this is the time someone not working directly or indirectly for Ken Martin actually gets to start seeing where the bodies are buried in Minnesota politics.

This isn’t, of course, the part of the Minnesota bureaucracy that controls hundreds of millions in fraud, or the direct connection between the non-profit/industrial complex and the DFL and all the taxpayer money they’ve controlled for the past two decades. Or to Keith Ellison renting out seats in the AGO to Michael Bloomberg’s climate pimps. 

But it almost feels like it could be possible

SCENE:  Mitch BERG is parking on the street to go to a private event.  He’s trying to wrangle with the stupid newfangle parking meter when Avery LIBRELLE rolls around the corner on a recumbent bike. 

LIBRELLE:  Merg!

BERG:  Uh…

LIBRELLE:  Shut up.   The “party of faith” is embracing blasphemy!

BERG:  I’m not actually Catholic, but I’m pretty sure you can’t commit “blasphemy” against a human, being that Christ was the only human who’s ever also been deific…

LIBRELLE:  Republicans clearly hate Christians!

BERG:  Right.  So do you remember this…:

(But LIBRELLE has already left)

And SCENE.

If it’s a day ending in “Y”, there’s going to be another DFL fraud scam. 

The questions to ask at this point pretty much boil down to:

• What non-profit is behind it?
• How is that non-profit linked to the DFL?
• Which DFL executive branch staffer or legislator made the connections to make the deal happen?

Because there’ll be an answer to each of those questions.

And all of those answers will end up with Tim Walz trying to tapdance his way out of the buck stopping anywhere near him. 

Tim Walz is not the savviest politician who ever kissed a baby or shook a hand.

But yesterday’s “knucklehead” admission may be the dumbest own goal he’s ever made:

Admitting that one is a marketing charade is a bold move, Cotton.  Let’s see how it works. 

Ed Morrissey notes:

In that sense, perhaps this is Walz’ attempt at sincerity — by acknowledging what seemed pretty apparent all along. What’s mystifying is why Walz would admit publicly that Harris was pursuing a race-based calculation in her running mate rather than, y’know, finding the best person for the job. And not just in the one-heartbeat-from-the-presidency sense either, but also in the ability to campaign and to compete against J. D. Vance.

Like candidate, like running-mate, I guess.

The House Fraud committee got a chance to ask Attorney General Ellison two hours worth of questions yesterday.  

It didn’t go well for the Attorney General:

To recap – the top lawyers in the state was working against his client, on behalf of peole who were giving him and his son a ton of money.  This was in the lead-up to the “Defund the Police” vote in 2021, when Jeremiaih Ellison  barely held his seat, and four other anti-cop council members lost.  

I don’t think we’re done with revelations about Ellison’s activities on this issue.  Just a hunch. 

Bill Glahn at the Center of the American Experiment has a thread on the testimony. 

LIttle birts tell me there’s more to come.  Stay tuned. 

…could Tim Walz have just skipped the whole thing?

After squandering an $18B surplus and, by the way, governing like a dictator (and not even a competent one), Walz’s state of the state mostly tried to gaslight the viewer into thinking Donald Trump caused the state’s problems:

…not to mention trying to haul another bid for national office slowly, painfully off the ground.

Smart people were not fooled:

…but DFL messaging isn’t aimed at the smart people. 

Q:  Why is Joe Biden having, according to his agent, trouble scoring bookings for his big comeback tour

Former President Joe Biden referred to black children as “colored kids” Tuesday as he explained what motivated him to get involved in politics during his first public remarks since leaving office.

Biden, 82, used the outdated and offensive term while telling an anecdote about his childhood move from Scranton, Pa., to Wilmington, Del., in which he noted that before his family relocated to the First State, he’d “never seen hardly any black people.”

“I was only going in fourth grade,” he said as he recalled his mother driving him to Catholic school in Wilmington. “And I remember seeing kids going by, at the time called ‘colored kids,’ on a bus go by — they never turned right to go to Claymont High School.”

With an asking price of $300K per speech, one might expect he’d bring some, y’know, speaking chops to the proverbial table. 

Alas – not so much:

During a television debate with Trump in June last year, Biden performed poorly, repeatedly losing his train of thought, which led to calls for him to step back as Democratic presidential candidate.

One unnamed student told the paper that the protesters’ chants accusing Biden of genocide were “faint and indistinguishable inside the classroom, but still audible”.

Other students who attended the event said Biden celebrated the way Harvard refused to give in to Trump’s demands, saying: “Harvard stepped up in a way no one else has. You should be really thankful.

Hm. Think about it. Harvard is superannuated, corrupt, a hotbed of nepotism, wealthy yet dependent on its ties to government…

Harvard basically is Joe Biden. 

Minnesota Star Tribune, April 17, 2027:

FEDS INDICT 20 IN WATER FRAUD SCANDAL

The US Attorney for Minnesota has announced indictments of 22 executives and board members ‘”Watering Our Future”, a Methodist-affiliated non-profit ostensibly dedicated to providing water at public events.

“WOF spent $230 million in state money”, said Assistant US Attorney Ashley Bouffant, “but we’ve found no evidence they ever provided any water to a single person at a public event”. 

The headline in 2025?   “Minnesota lawmakers push for free water access at public events“. 

The bill, introduced in February by Rep. Leigh Finke, (DFL-66A) has been added to a larger House commerce package. If passed, it would mandate that all qualifying events provide at least one of the following:

• Free bottled water

• Permission to bring in sealed water bottles

• Access to refill stations for those who bring empty bottles

• Exemptions: art galleries, museums and presentation spaces where beverages aren’t allowed

“This bill just kind of came to me last summer when I was having conversations with people about the heat,” Finke said. “There are numerous ways for this to be successful at very low stakes and with high rewards.”

Any government program opportunity, at best, for creating a new transfer of wealth from the real world to the political class; at worst, another opportunity for fraud and graft.

And under this version of the DFL, let’s just leave out the “at best” part.

I’m just waiting to see what special interest group can carve / has carved out a piece of the public water action.

Because you know there’s gotta be one.

…what is Boss Hogg trying to get ahead of, here?

What does the little guy know about Hillary?

Even as the “Feeding Our Future” scandal appears to shift into a new gear with the release of the recording of Keith Ellison appearing to:

• put the lie to several of his statements about when he did or didn’t know about the fraud scandal
• tell some future defendants that the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) could “chill” the ardor of other agencies to investigate them
• accept campaign donations for his son and himself,

…it appears we’re nowhere near done with scandals in DFL-run Minnesota:

And while Feeding Our Future is just pedestrian stuff like fraud, jury tampering and maybe racketeering, this one gets into TMZ-fodder:

Gabriel Adam Alexander Luthor (a.k.a. Langford), 39, and Elizabeth Christine Brown, 42, were arrested in Las Vegas, where they made their initial court appearances in U.S. District Court in the District of Nevada earlier this week.

The indictment alleges:

Luthor and Brown intentionally devised and carried out an overbilling scheme for medical services provided through their neurofeedback therapy business, Golden Victory Medical, LLC (GVM). Luthor and Brown were in a relationship and together founded GVM in 2018…In total, GVM submitted hundreds of thousands of false claims to insurers, many of which the insurers paid, resulting in an estimated loss of over $15 million. Millions of dollars in fraudulent proceeds were transferred from bank account to bank account and ultimately retained by Luthor and Brown. Luthor and Brown used the funds to purchase a 9000-square-foot mansion in Eden Prairie and to pay their living expenses and the living expenses of other girlfriends of Luthor’s, who lived with Luthor and Brown and assisted in the fraud scheme.

 

It’d sure be a great time to have a functional state GOP with an election coming up, wouldn’t it?

Saint Paul’s much-ballyhooed all-boss-lady City Council not only can’t do its job.

It breaks the law while doing it. 

Jane McClure is a long-time writer for the Highland Villager. 

And as she points out, it seems the Council is walking all over the state’s Open Meetings Law:

The Open Meeting Law prohibits serial meetings, or meeting one-on-one or in smaller groups to make decisions before a public meeting. Serial meetings can be seen as ways to avoid public discourse or to reach some kind of agreement in advance of an open meeting. This depends on the facts of each matter, of course.

Serial meetings can also occur through electronic or written communication, including phone conversations, emails, texts and social media.

City Council members contend that they have long discussed issues one-on-one before taking major votes. This practice predates the current council. That still doesn’t make it right.

Discussing is one thing. Making decisions in private is another. Making promises that lead to decisions is another.

 

The rule of law is the first casualty of all-“Blue” government – in city hall as well as on the street. 

In the six years Tim Walz has governed Minnesota, and especially in the two years the DFL, the state’s bespoke version of the Democratic Party, has had unfettered control of the state’s government, Minnesota has become something of a hotbed of corruption. 

The marquee case, so far, is “Feeding Our Future”, named after a non-profit that allegedly took hundreds of millions of dollars of state and federal Covid relief aid, and “spent” it on feeding centers that served no meals and fed no hungry people.  

Federal money is involved, so the Feds have been doing the heavy lifting on prosecutions this past couple of years.  Cases are going to trial, and sentences are being handed down.  

But in a bombshell Wednesday evening, Bill Glahn of the Center of the American Experiment (a conservative think tank run by Ed and my former radio colleague John Hinderaker) released an audio exhibit from the federal cases, appearing to show Minnesota’s controversial Attorney General, Keith Ellison, discussing a wide range of subjects of interest in the case with several people involve in the case at various levels:

American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal. 

As I wrote last week, the audio file was named as Exhibit 710 on the evidence list presented to the court by Aimee Bock’s defense attorney, Kenneth Udoibok. The recording was not offered into evidence during the six-week trial that concluded last month, with Bock’s conviction on all seven counts she faced.

As a document, it exceeds expectations. Voices can be heard clearly and are clearly identifiable. The highlights, which are many, tend to be front-loaded. I’ve included below some clips from the meeting to highlight a few points.

Glahn presents the receipts, as the kids say. In this clip, Ellison discusses how his flex can get other state agencies to back off:

The “Jodi Harpstead” referred to is state’s former Human Services commissioner – no stranger to other problems, and who, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune, resigned last January as controversy swelled around the department.  

Here, Ellison pledges to fight on behalf the non-profits:

Perhaps most revealing, according to Glahn, the tape changes the timeline presented by Ellison in the past.  

At 30:38, Ellison interrupts, saying, “This is the first I’m really hearing about it.” At 37:08, Ellison says, “This has not come to my attention until now.” These private statements in December 2021 completely contradict his September 2022 public statement:

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and his office have been deeply involved for two years in holding Feeding Our Future accountable. 

Two years. Do the math. 

The entire tape is included in the Center’s story. 

Pop your popcorn.

State Rep. Maria Isa Perez-Vega wants to mow herself some of that fresh astroturf:

The DFLer, who enthusiastically participated in the orgy of spending that led to both tax hikes and a colossal deficit that has raised the cost of living, led to thousands of Minnesotans losing their jobs or moving their businesses out of state, piling unfunded mandates onto schools that are causing budget-tightening in the classroom, and cutting the very services the Representative is talking about, is going to try to deflect the whole mess over to Trump.

And she is going to do the brave, boss-lady thing and hold a town hall.

Where? 

When?

So, you can find out where the “town hall” is after we vet you to make sure you’re not one of the “bad” ones?

Since this takes place during show-time on Saturday, Avery Librelle will have to sit it out.

But if any of you go, feel free to call in with a report. 

If it seems like just yesterday the national media was swooning over Saint Paul’s city council – the first all-female city council in the US, we were told – it’s because it practically was just yesterday that the entire establishment was swooning over them.  

They’re women, donchaknow.  

And I’m not gonna say I predicted this, but you know I kinda predicted this:

The president was, as luck would have it, my “representative”, Mitra Jalali – a woman whose “flexibility” on issues and identity makes Tim Walz look all boring and consistent; she left the council in January to focus on her health or something. 

Since then, the council has deadlocked on everything from a temporary replacement for Jalali, to space for the city’s new Sudanese-style trash collection service to stage its trucks (forcing Mayor Carter to declare an emergency and, speaking of emergemcies, forcing Mayor Carter to appear like a relative moderate and grownup.

Or perhaps the one person in the transaction who shows up for work: the councilwomens’ attendance is a little dismal:

That’s may actually be worse than the DFL in the House of Representatives. 

UPDATE: Mayor Carter has appointed Jalali’s legislative aide to serve out the term.  I don’t think this is over. 

America loves second acts. 

The child star who disappeared under a mound of blow at age 15, coming back with a stellar performance.

The team that started the season in the cellar, going to the championship.

The 35 year old short reliever who started as an 18 year old prodigy before getting stuck in AAA ball for a decade and a half that pitches a shutout to get the save, and a little bit of immortality, in the big game.

The political party that squandered a $18B surplus to create a $6B deficit, while blowing up the budget 40% and jacking up taxes, rebranding itself as tax hawks for the children…

Wait.  Wut?

And kudos to the social media intern for that clever job of editing all the facts out of the interchange, to make it look like Rep. Gomez was winning the discussion.  It was…creative.