Liberty & Prosperity Blog

It's apparent that Peggy Flanagan doesn't have the temperament to be a senator. According to this rep[orting , "Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan initially slammed President Donald Trump for off-color remarks about Minnesota’s Somali community, telling CNN he wants to "distract" the public from cost-of-living increases." Then she went off the deep end, saying "Trump chose the Laken Riley Act as the first bill of his administration for one reason: He wanted to legitimize his mass deportation agenda ." Hint to Lt. Gov. Flanagan: President Trump doesn't need anything to legitimize deportations, mass or otherwise. That's because it's federal law. Hint II: you don't have to legitimize enforcing the law. Lt. Gov. Flanagan wasn't finished losing it. After that, Lt. Gov. Flanagan lost it, criticizing Angie Craig, her primary opponent for the soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat, saying "Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to ...

One thing that's apparent with Minnesota's Medicaid/Feeding Our Future grift is that Tim Walz has plenty to hide. Rep. Brad Finstad, the chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, is hot on Tim Walz's trail. Rep. Finstad introduced "the SNAP Data Transparency and Oversight Act on Tuesday. His legislation would require states to provide beneficiary-level SNAP data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) when requested, or risk the withholding of federal funding for the program." What is Gov. Walz trying to hide? Is Gov. Walz trying to hide the extent of Gov. Walz's/the DFL's corruption? It's definitely bigger than was thought when first discovered. Further, "Finstad was joined by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., in sending a letter to Gov. Tim Walz outlining concerns regarding the state’s administration of SNAP, and highlighting 'recent failures to improve program i...

In November of 2017, Somalis joined with CAIR-MN in calling then-St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson "a racist, an Islamophobe and xenophobe." Further, they made threats against Jeff to the point that he required police protection. I find it rather ironic that Minneapolis Somalis are playing the racist card . According to the article, Minneapolis Councilman Jamal Osman, who is of Somali descent, told ABC News that "This is not the America that I imagine. What we're seeing is not just politics; it's dangerous." Tell that to Jeff Johnson. When then-Councilman Jeff proposed a pause in primary refugee resettlement to St. Cloud, CAIR-MN's Jaylani Hussein joined with #Unite Cloud's Nathalie Ringsmuth in criticizing then-Councilman Jeff, calling Jeff virtually every name in the book and likely a couple other names that aren't in any books. Jodi Harpstead, then the head of Lutheran Social Services, charged him after a rather tense City Coundil meeting...

The Trump administration is apparently tired of the Walz administration slow-walking their way through Minnesota's Medicaid fraud fiasco. It's apparent because Dr. Oz, "the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is demanding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz take a more 'aggressive approach' in confronting fraud or risk losing federal Medicaid funding." We learned that Dr. Oz told Gov. Walz in his letter that "Recent findings from multiple investigations, combined with ongoing vulnerabilities across several service areas, indicate systemic issues requiring immediate action." TRANSLATION: You've got a mess and you need to fix it fast. The article opens by saying "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is demanding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz take a more 'aggressive approach' in confronting fraud or risk losing federal Medicaid funding. " Tim Walz is trying his best to polish his tarnished imag...

Apparently, Speaker Lisa Demuth's gubernastorial campaign will be long on brash statements and short on transparency. In Speaker Demuth's latest fundraising appeal, she said "What is Governor Walz hiding and why is he hiding it? Last week a story broke that Tim Walz is refusing to turn over records of Medicaid providers under investigation for fraud to the media and the public. Tim Walz knows there is a law that makes this data public, but his Department of Human Services is refusing to turn it over to the media. I have been clear - when I am governor, the fraud will stop on day one . And on DAY ONE, I will order the release of the fraud files that Tim Walz refuses to release. That'd be quite the trick. Stopping rampant fraud statewide on DAY ONE isn't possible. Speaker Demuth knows it. She just wants to sound tough. I don't want a governore who sounds tough. I want a governor who is solutions-oriented and who knows he doesn't have to sound tough. I want a...

I can't believe that I haven't written about Rep. Bernie Perryman's announcement that she's running for the late Jerry Relph's Senate seat. Still, I'm surprised that this is the first time I've written about this prime opportunity for a GOP flip of a DFL seat. Sadly, a far-left DFL politician (whose name I won't insert into this article) currently holds the seat. I'll just say that we need more Bernie Perryman types in the Senate. This article says that Bernie is a "small business owner" who "has served in the Minnesota House of Representatives after she was elected to that chamber in 2022 by just a 1-point margin." Rep. Perryman, whom I've known since 2008, will help the MNGOP turn our economy into a prosperity economy. Currently, Minnesota's economy is a fraud-riddled, NGO-driven economy that's delivered only 1% per year per capita growth according to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce report. That's the 'Wal...