Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Nobody seems to know exactly how much money the Somalians stole, but Bill Glahn at Powerline blog posted this:

That’s a lot of Simoleons.  Can we get it back?  And send them back, while we’re at it?

Joe Doakes

a) no, and b) in most case no, they’re citizens and/or born here.   

Governor Walz’s strategy seems to be to try to blame the whole thing on Trump.  I’m just curious to see if Minnesota voters are gullible and stupid enough to fall for it.  

Even money.  That’s being optimistic.  

So I’ll admit it – I gave Mayor Frey about a 51% chance of beating Omar Fateh last week.   

But I figured that if Frey did win, the results would look a lot like the 2021 “Defund the Police” initiative vote; 

• Progressives, especially feckless young white ones, voting for the radical change
• People who had something to lose from that radical change – people in North Minneapolis who already live with crime, and people in Linden Hills and west of the Lakes with something to lose – would vote against. 

And lo and behold:

The blue precincts went Fateh; the tan (?) ones, Frey.

And who’d thunk it – Fateh took the urban-life theme parks like Marcy Holmes and Northeast below Broadway, and the toffs in Kenwood, and the wannabe starving artists in Whittier.  

The North?  Linden Hills and Nokomis?  West of the Lakes?  All Frey.  Even Longfellow thought Fateh was a radical too far.  

Color me amazed.   

Perhaps mores – the defeat of Katie Cashman leaves the DSA unable to override the mayor’s veto for the first time in years.    That’s gotta smart.  

After their debacle in 2021, the DSA said they’d be back in force for 2025.  They weren’t gonna let that happen again.  

And yet here we are.  

I’m sure they’ll be back again.  The next election is always the crucial one.  

But if this was indeed the perigee for leftism in Minneapolis (and I remain to be convinced), and the city is going to have to deal with slow decay rather than flaming implosion – well, that’s a slightly better grade of crisis, isn’t it? 

Tim Walz is running for Governor again.  

The governor who, at best, ignored well over $1B in fraud, set up a snitch line and a badthink database, squandered a $19B surplus, ran one of the most club-footed Covid responses in the country, and supports censoring people like me, wants another go-around.

Even some DFLers have had enough…

…although if Walz doesn’t get the nomination it’ll be because someone to his left beats him.

It’s the law.

The good news:  Bloody Mary Moriarty is not running for re-election as Henco Attorney.  

The bad news? It’s so she can focus on “transforming the office” even further:

“I ran for this office to do the hard work; the work that desperately needed doing and the work the voters chose when I was elected in 2022 by 16 points,”Moriarty said in the release. “We’ve become accustomed to elected officials who don’t deliver results and end up more invested in clinging to power than doing the work of the people. That is not me. As I have weighed whether I wanted to spend the last year and a half of my term focused primarily on campaigning or continuing to transform this office, the choice became clear. I want to focus on running the office, rather than running for office.”

The worse news?

Remember – the Cano Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law is called a “law” for a reason:

In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”.  There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”. 

A symptom of this is when one sees people just barely to the left of a city’s Overton Window referring to the progressive politicidans and institutions in power as “Conservatives” or “Republicans”.  

When Alondra Cano seems like a sane, rational stateswoman, the Frey Corollary is in effect.

Worst – ergo most likely – scenario:  Moriarty spends the rest of her term gutting whatever vestiges of traditional law and order might remain her her office, turns it over to someone who will be subtly running to challenge Omar Fateh, Keith Ellison or Ilhan Omar from the left one day.  

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. 

It has become an iron clad fact that the only actual “reporting” going on in Twin Cities media is from the “alternative” media.

And while I riff on the “MN Reformer” – which is paid for by leftists with deep pockets – I’ll include them as well.

“Bags of Cash” allegedly offered to “Feeding Our Future” juror:

But…why?

Scott Johnson at Powerline is in the courtroom:

According to [leader prosecutor Joe] Thompson, the juror called 911 and the Spring Lake Park Police have taken custody of the cash — [update: the amount is $120,000]. It will be retrieved by the FBI.

Much more to come.

Minneapolis is “among the best cities for first time home buyers”:

Also on the list, Mariupol, Beirut, Kabul, Damascus…

A significant chunk of the far-left clacque that runs politics in the metro are Marxists, either overtly or under the hood.

And an amazing number of them subscribe to the “Labor Theory of Value” – the idea that labor, as opposed to the other three factors (Capitol, Management and Land) is the dispositive factor of production.

I have been challenging adherents for years – test the theory by taking a group of fast food workers, plopping them on a vacant lot, and seeing if a Hardee’s springs up around them.

It’s an absurd test – exactly the one the theory deserves.

I used to say nobody had taken the challenge.

But it appears that, at least indirectly, someone just might.