Liberty & Prosperity Blog

GOP gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth issued a statement last night about 'ghost student' fraud. This KSTP investigation article highlights the situation. Speaker Demuth's statement says "Yet another scheme to defraud taxpayers was revealed last night. This is yet another example of Minnesota institutions not protecting the tax dollars they receive from hard-working Minnesotans. This reporting focuses on the harm to federal loan programs, but Minnesota, through the State Grant program and NorthStar Promise Act, provides state funds to attend these same colleges. As speaker, I led the fight to provide $3 million to Minnesota State for software to detect and prevent fraud involving ‘ghost students'. When I am governor, I will ensure that controls and assurances are in place before any state dollars are sent to ghost students or the schools that allow them to enroll. If this requires additional authority, I will immediately work with the legislature. The era of letti...

On August 23, I wrote this post about the DFL's imminent affordability crisis, which I titled "The DFL's affordability LIE exposed." In it, I wrote about the Democrats' federal affordability problem by telling people about the $1,900,000,000,000 spent on the American Rescue Plan. That spending gave us 9.1% inflation. Then I wrote about the DFL Trifecta spending the entire $18,000,000,000 projected surplus before hiking taxes by $10,000,000,000. The result was a $6,000,000,000 projected deficit. Then I wrote about Minneapolis's 11.3% property tax hike, which many people can't afford. As lengthy of a list as that is, we aren't finished. According to this KSTP article , "The Minneapolis Public School Board is expected to approve its preliminary levy in two weeks. That deadline approaches as board members are being briefed about a new report assessing the district’s financial and business practices. That report, by the Center for Effective School Ope...

After reading this report , I'm left thinking that the Hennepin County Libraries have become a porn/gay pride hub. According to the report, "Cristine Trooien, the founder of Minnesota Partnership for Achievement and the Minnesota Parents Alliance, said she recently visited a Hennepin County library with her 11-year-old and found a trove of 'agenda-driven books' aimed at young readers." Point the finger of blame directly at Gov. Tim Walz, the DFL pervert governor of Minnesota. The DSA took over the DFL when Omar Fateh temporarily was endorsed by the DFL. The DFL Establishment ganged up on the DSA to strip Fateh of the endorsement but the DSA has essentially taken over the DFL. Through it all, though, Gov. Walz has been the most far-left governor in Minnesota's history. He's the governor who signed the biggest biennial budget in Minnesota history. He spent every penny of the biggest in Minnesota history and left Minnesota with a deficit. In this video, Gov. ...

Alpha News reports that "The largest association of law enforcement officers in Minnesota has endorsed Republican Michele Tafoya for U.S. Senate over Democrat Peggy Flanagan." In their letter to Tafoya announcing their endorsement, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, aka the MPPOA, wrote "This endorsement reflects our strong confidence in your leadership, character, and steadfast commitment to public safety. The men and women who serve in communities throughout our state deeply appreciate your dedication to ensuring their safety and the safety of the citizens they protect." This is a significant endorsement because it tells the people of Minnesota that their families will be protected. It tells small businesses, especially retail shops, that crime won't steal their profits. That, in turn, permits the industry to invest in growing the business instead of FORCING THEM to spend money protecting their assets, whether it's buildings, people or ...

The word is that Minnesota's gubernatorial race isn't a competitive race because Klobuchar's past Senate races weren't that competitive. I once learned a great lesson from NPR Reporter Mara Liasson, who said after the 2006 election that "patterns are patterns until they aren't anymore." This year's gubernatorial fight is significantly different in that Sen. Klobuchar faced underfunded candidates with virtually no name recognition. Lisa Demuth is the Speaker of Minnesota's House and she's armed with plenty of cash. She isn't as well-funded as Sen. Klobuchar but she'll have enough to get her message out. Part of Speaker Demuth's messaage is that Klobuchar doesn't really care about fraud. To support Speaker Demuth's opinion is the fact "that Klobuchar’s Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025, but a review of 1,000 of her official press-release archive found no ...

During an interview on Lara Trump's My View program, former NBA player Enes Kanter-Freedom said that the WNBA "has no idea what they’re about to face" . The WNBA has been playing a virtue-signaling game, with "Golden State Valkyries star Gabby Williams’ support for trans athletes and Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve’s 'support trans kids' shirt was what led him to this moment." During the interview, Kanter-Freedom also said "So, there’s other major sports that obviously closed that loophole. They added ‘biological female’ or ‘born female’ in their collective bargaining. But when I look at them, the WNBA, they didn’t have kind of, you know, reference to biological or anything like that. And all the coaches, I was watching this, and I believe the coach of Minnesota came out with a ‘trans kids belong’ (shirt), so I was like, if no one’s against it and all the coaches are OK with it, think about how much money I can bring, think about all the end...