But I have a hunch if the GOP ticket has a major chance of turning things around in Minnesota, it might just start here:

I have no idea if any of this is true – but if I were writing this as a movie, then the Republicans in the legislature, knowing full well that the law enforcement apparatus in the state reports to Keith Ellison and that one might as well report fraud to the state’s cattle herds as the Attorney General, bypassed state authorities completely and went to the Feds.   

And as the extent to which the DFL-dominated executive branch is riven with crime becomes known and more and more DFL officials are frog-walked to Leavenworth, even the densest “soccer mom” in Eden Prairie stats to realize the depravity they’ve been abetting and repents at the polls this fall. 

A guy can dream.  

SCENE:   Velma pulls an “Elliot Ness” mask off of the crook, revealing Governor Tim Walz.  

DAPHNE AND SHAGGY:  “It’s Minnesota Governor Tim Walz”

WALZ:  “And let me tell you, I’d have gotten those fraudsters if its weren’t for…”

SCOOBY: “Rose Doggone Resky Kids?”

WALZ:  “No, knucklehead, those ICE agents.  I was just about there!”

He was —>this close<—-. 

Part of being a conservative – and a participant in Western civilization, for that matter – is treating people as individuals rather than collectives.  It’s one of the things that makes Judeo-Christian society objectively better than the alternatives.  

But sometimes groups are gonna group. 

Rep. Walter Hudson describes his observations after three years of reaching out to Somali leadership:

He stresses he’s largely referring to the community’s leadership, and with good reason; there are good Americans, and good Republicans, among Minnesota Somallis – because people, as individuals, have the free will to exercise their freedom of conscience.  

But Rep. Hudson is right in saying that the community needs a lot more of them, and they need to actually move the needle within that community – especially since it appears the grifting dollars might start drying up soon, if the DFL doesn’t manage to gaslight its way out of this round of scandals.  

Governor Walz appears to be losing his mind:

Because it’s all Trump’s/Joe Thompson’s fault, of course. 

By the way – watch for a concerted campaign by Big Left – or even just Walz’s crowd – to paint him as the victim in all this:

I try to stay on an even keel, to give people the benefit of the doubt. 

But I’ve never wanted to see someone hauled out of the Capitol in handcuffs – or, given this video, maybe a straitjacket – this badly in my life. 

I started hearing blips last week that Governor Walz was going to get defenestrated from the Governor’s race.  The big donors that run the DFL were worried he’s going to be a drag on the ticket.  

It got a little more official last night:

Reports say Amy Klobuchar may get in the governor’s race. 

This is, of course pretty brilliant for the DFL.   Rumor has it they want to run on an “Anti-Fraud” platform next year.  Klobuchar hasn’t been implicated – so she’ll make that a little less incongruous.  And if she loses, she keeps her Senate seat, and if she wins, Walz appoints her successor.   

The only two risks?  

• The GOP getting its act together and running a well-funded, universally supported candidate that can deliver the right message with enough force to get past mid-Minnesotans Fudds and their attachment to two generations of the Klobuchar name, and
• The Feds bringing in a lot more indictments that make, er, other parts of the ticket squirm a little.  

I’m thinking “B” is more likely, but I’ve love to be suprised. 

Watch this video.  

How far away do you think Minnesota , and America, are from this?

SCENE:  The headquarters of the Democrat Farmer Labor Party, in Saint Paul. Chair Richard CARLBON is convening a meeting of key Democrat activists, including Tim WALZ, Keith ELLISON, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Avery LIBRELLE, Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, And Evan Micah BRYAN.  

WALZ:  Damn.  This damn fraud damn scandal is damn causing a damn lot of damn trouble. 

CARLBOM:  We’re not on camera, Tim. 

WALZ:  Doh.  I’m a knucklehead.  This fraud scandal is causing a lot of trouble.  

BIRKENSTOCK:   So what do we do?

CARROLL:   Rebrand “finding fraud” as racist?

BRYAN:  We have been doing that.  It’s not working quite like it used to.  

ELLISON:  We can tell the media who’s boss. 

CARROLL:   On it.  

CARLBOM:  No bad ideas, folks.  But I think I’ve got it.  

(The room hushes)

CARLBOM:  We run as the anti-fraud party!

WALZ:  Damn yeah damn we damn tell people damn damn damn damn

(BIRKENSTOCK rises, takes Walz’s hand, leads him from the room)

BRYAN:  You mean, go at all these allegations of seven years of fraud while we controlled the executive branch and most of the Legislature by saying we were always the party that fought fraud. 

CARLBOM:  Yep. 

ELLISON:  But what about the Somalis?

CARLBOM:  Pfffft.   We throw them under the bus.  

LIBRELLE:  Isn’t that a little bit cynical?

CARLBOM:  It’s a lot cynical.  That’s what I do.   We burn one group of immigrants, we bring in another group of migrants.   Palestinians are hot right now.  

(Nods and murmurs of assent around the room)

CARROLL:  Hm.   Kind of Orwellian.   

CARLBOM:  Of course it is.  And it works.  It’s always worked before.  Minnesotans just aren’t that smart.  

(Muted assent around the table)

BRYAN:  People are pretty stupid.  

CARLBOM:  That’s our unofficial motto.  OK.  Make it happen!

and SCENE

He’s talking about the Nick Shirley video that’s brought the Minnesota fraud scandal to a few million new sets of eyeballs:

Nick Shirley’s video (I’ll link it in the comments) has gotten a ton of traffic and is bringing the story of Minnesota’s fraud pandemic to a lot of people for the first time – but Bill Glahn, Liz Collin, Scott Johnson and even some MSM reporters (Lou Raguse, Jay Kolls) have been reporting on the fraud problem, including this very daycare, for literally four years. Shirley’s video is a great contribution, especially in terms of eyeballs on topic (pushing 100 million as I write this) – but the fact that it’s the first coverage you’ve *noticed* about the fraud doesn’t make it the first coverage. Do a little listening. Some of us have been beating the drum on this story literally for years [1].

Now, let’s move on to Mr. Mannarino and his invincibly ignorant post.

“While you clowns collect fat paychecks to audit and oversee the government”

Strap in for some ninth-grade civics.

Who does Mr. Mannarino (or anyone who read what he wrote and went “that makes sense!”) think does the “Auditing” of state government?

The executive branch.

Who runs the executive branch?

Since 2011, the DFL. Completely. 100%. Minnesota Republicans have had zero influence into any part of the work of *the executive branch* – the Attorney General, the Secretary of State and especially the entire bureaucracy that reports to the Governor – since Tim Pawlenty left office about this time 15 years ago. [2]

The GOP has had intermittent power *in the legislature* since then – both chambers for two years, no chambers for four, and divided government the rest of the time.

And this is basic civics; the legislature doesn’t tell the governor how to run the executive branch, other than via the budget and, indirectly, via hearings. The legislature doesn’t have arrest or prosecutorial power. [3].

The DFL controls the Governor’s office, has a one-vote majority in the Senate, and a tied House of Representatives. Which meant nothing got through the legislature without *some* biparatisan support – in the 2025 session. Which is how the GOP shut down the DFL’s budget plans in 2025, and how the GOP managed to set up the Fraud Committee that is doing *everything a legislative body can* to fight fraud – hold hearings and make information public. In 2023 and 2024, the DFL controlled *everything* – governor, the whole legislature and the Supreme Court.

So when uninformed social media pundits like “Joey Mannarino” start yapping about “primarying every Republican in the legislature”, I keep asking: “what, SPECIFICALLY, did the GOP not do, that it was legally allowed to do, and was procedurally *able* to do being out of power in 23-24 and with only the power to say “No” today, that it SHOULD do?”

And the responses I get are usually things like…

“Get TOUGH”. OK. How?

“AUDIT them!” The Legislature doesn’t have that power, and even if it did, the DFL has the votes to block it.

“Walk out!” The DFL tried that. It cost them their budget. Given the tied House and minority in the Senate, it’d likely cost the GOP more.

“Arrest the governor!” The Legislature doesn’t have arrest power, even if the GOP had the majority.

Still waiting on an answer.

“Primarying the MNGOP in the Legislature” will affect fraud about as much as, I dunno, going after Menards’ rebate program. Anyone who tells you otherwise is engagement farming and/or fundraising off the ignorant.

Don’t be “the ignorant”.

[1] I’ve interviewed many of the principals on the fraud story since literally 2022 at the latest: Glahn, Johnson, Collin and others from Alpha, and some local Somalis as well.

[2] By the way – the Departments of Health and Human Services and Education, the two largest parts of the executive branch, are both clogged with fraud, and the Attorney General is at the very least circumstantially tied to the fraud (having been recorded telling a room full of people who donated to his and his son’s re-elections that he’d fight AGAINST the Education Departments attempts to investigate them, a month before the FBI raided them and, eventually put them in prison) – but don’t you DARE suggest Secretary of State Simon and our election system aren’t above it all!

[3] And the governor can’t control how the legislature legislates – which is why Gov. Walz failed at armtwisting the legislature into agreeing to his agenda for a special session on “gun violence”

This fall and winter – when the Minnesota fraud story finally broke nationwide – has been a long time coming. 

As has been a broad realization, at least among modestly independent media, that the Twin Cities media is exactly what we’ve been saying it is for the past 20-odd years:

“The Minnesota Star Tribune masquerades as a newspaper,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine posted on X. “It’s actually a Democrat front, hiding news, twisting facts, lying outright. One of the worst in the country.”

Additionally, the paper’s CEO is Steve Grove, who served as Gov. Tim Walz’s former commissioner of employment and economic development, which has sparked criticism from some who say that the paper is hesitant to pin Walz to the fraud crisis. 

Fox News Digital spoke to several locals who argued that media outlets either didn’t cover the scandal thoroughly enough or, in cases where it was covered, Walz’s oversight role was downplayed.

“The Minnesota Star Tribune has proven itself to be nothing more than communist fish wrap,” Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota 6th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital. 

 

A free, independent press – the one they envisioned when they wrote the First Amendment – is one of the things that makes self-government above the “tribe” level possible.  

Maybe we’ll get one of those in Minnesota someday.  

$18 billion in potential fraud since 2018 – and he’s fairly confident at least half of it isn’t hypothetical at all.   

So it’s likely the minimum is nine billion billion dollars – among 14 Medicare/Medicaid programs alone.  

Put another way – the entire ruinous projected six billion dollar deficit projected by the end of the decade, and half of another, all defrauded from the state and nation’s taxpayers in the past seven years.  

I don’t want Walz to step down. 

I want him to get hauled out of the Capitol kicking and screaming by FBI agents.  

And I want to be there videotaping the whole thing.  

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.