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Minnesota's Medicaid fraud scandal goes national

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It's still hard to picture Minnesota being in the national news on virtually a daily basis. Still, that's exactly what's happening. The terrible news is that Minnesota's in the headlines for the wrong reasons. Writer Liz Peek nailed it when she wrote "The massive Somali-orchestrated welfare fraud in Minnesota grew so big, even The New York Times had to cover it ." Then she threw the knockout punch, saying "The takeaways are delicious: an indictment of sloppy Democrat-run Big Government, a repudiation of immigration policies that favor groups that decline to assimilate and that in some cases embrace anti-U.S. sentiment and exposing Governor Tim Walz for the lightweight he is. " That's gotta sting something fierce for Gov. Walz. That's just the first shot. Next is an article about House Oversight Committee Jamie Comer titled " Comer targets Walz in new House investigation, citing nearly $1B in alleged Minnesota fraud." It's worth...

Tim Walz's Somali/re-election crisis

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Monday afternoon, I contacted a frequent reader of this blog to see if my friend had tracked the activities of a Twitter account thought to be connected to people thought to be employed by Minnesota's Department of Human Services. He'd been tracking the account as closely as I had. When I asked him what he thought was going on, he said that one of 3 things was happening. The first possibility was that the DFL thought Walz was too weak to win so they tried to make Walz look utterly corrupt so they attempted to help him look bad by shutting down the account. Option 2 was that the DHS employees really had violated Twitter's rules and their account was legitimately suspended. Option 3 was that it was a combination of the first 2 options. This is just opinion but I think that Option 2 is most likely. That doesn't eliminate the possibility of the DFL not wanting Walz out of the competition. This NY Post article is interesting in that it highlights the employees' perspect...

Did Tim Walz silence DHS whistleblowers?

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According to Alpha News's reporting , "Employees with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) continue to speak out on Gov. Tim Walz’s failure to take 'any accountability for his role in fraud.'" BREAKING: From Bill Glahn: I'm not kidding, my last conversation with @Minnesota_DHS they expressed a fear regarding retaliation. Now this. JFC @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/nHAnBNTTad — Bill Glahn (@billglahn) December 1, 2025 They are back up! https://t.co/KERMRAGz9a — Bill Glahn (@billglahn) December 1, 2025 Let there be no doubt. I'm not accusing Tim Walz of getting this account shut down. In fact, I've heard 3-4 plausible possibilities as to what happened. Still, Tim Walz is capable of shutting accounts down. After all, he's the guy who instituted the COVID Snitch Line. It's time for the GOP to get fired up. The DFL isn't afraid to play hardball. We shouldn't be afraid of that either. Did Tim Walz attempt to retaliate against Hum...

Tim Walz's systemic fraud failure fiasco

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Tim Walz keeps sinking deeper into difficulty over the Medicaid fraud fiasco. Each time Gov. Walz tries to extricate himself from this fraud fiasco, the deeper he sinks into the mess. How unsurprising. This time, though, the unfriendly fire isn't coming from outside Gov. Walz's administration. This time, it's coming from within Gov. Walz's administration . In a lengthy tweet, Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees wrote "Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to." The first question...

Jeff Johnson -- Minnesota's solutions-oriented candidate

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If there's anything that gets former St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson motivated, it's when he hears a politician spew a litany of things that are wrong with Minnesota. As Jeff's campaign manager, I can state with total specificity that we have a nickname for such rants. We call them litanies. Litanies as in 'when do we get to the solutions?' In Jeff's op-ed , which Alpha News published today, Jeff wrote "Thanks to the DFL trifecta led by Gov. Walz, we have seen foolish spending and massive proposed tax increases for 2026. The exodus of the rich, middle class, and businesses is expected to continue. Our educational system is a failure as evidenced by poor test scores and school violence." We know the problems because we're living them. We don't need a CPI report to tell us that we're paying too much for groceries or gas. Lived experiences tell us that when we pull into a grooocery store or gas station. To be fair, though, to President ...

Is this proof of Education Minnesota's Marxism?

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Apparently, Education Minnesota has gone full Marxist. According to this article , "The 'racial equity trainings' can be brought 'to your building' when requested by Education Minnesota members, the union website explains, and offer instruction on topics like 'Culturally Responsive Teaching With a Racial Justice Lens' and 'Cultural Competency.' Educators in the state are required to fulfill a 'cultural competency' training in order to renew their teaching licenses, which can include topics such as 'Systemic Racism,' 'Gender Identity, Including Transgender Students,' 'Language Diversity,' and more, according to the state government page." Why do teachers have to learn how to be racists to get their teaching license renewed? According to the Oxford Languages dictionary , the definition of systemic racism is "discrimination or unequal treatment on the basis of membership in a particular ethnic group (typically ...

Is this Tim Walz's system of deceit?

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Is it just speculation that Gov. Tim Walz told House DFL legislators to kill the Senate OIG bill? Is it speculation that Speaker Demuth didn't work with DFL legislators in getting the bill into the final budget package? Both things have gotten rumored at the Capitol. I don't find the Demuth speculation credible. With a gubernatorial bid hanging on the horizon, she had too much to lose. Gov. Tim Walz, though, has incentive to look the opposite direction, starting with the people purportedly involved in the fraud. While it wasn't known that Somalis were behind the Medicaid fraud, it was known that some of the first people indicted in the Feeding Our Future Fraud were Somalis. This year, a weakened Tim Walz will need a big turnout of Somalis to get re-elected. John Phelan's article digs into this question a little further. The title for his article is "Did Gov. Walz tell House DFLers to squash the bill creating a fraud investigator?" The part that causes me to q...