Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Friday, Minnesota DFL Gov. Tim Walz appointed Tim O'Malley to be Minnesota's Fraud Czar after months of Medicaid fraud went undetected. Now that his re-election is imperiled, Gov. Walz is paying attention to the situation. Investigative reporters like Powerline's Bill Glahn, Lou Reguse and A.J. Lagoe of KARE11 and Eric Challoux of KSTP have been uncovering fraud story after fraud story for months. Interim U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson has been prosecuting cases for 2 years. Just now, Gov. Walz has paid attention to fraud? Unfortunately, that's just the start of Minneapolis's bad news . The Epoch Times is reporting that "More than 400 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of Operation Metro Surge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Dec. 12." The article continues, saying "Operation Metro Surge targets the 'worst of the worst' illegal immigrants who h...

Once in awhile, a headline just gets you laughing. The title of this article is "Walz creates new ‘fraud prevention program,’ says ‘I just fix these things’ amid widening scandal." What a joke. This doesn't have anything to do with reality. Gov. Walz still hasn't fixed the fraud problem, mostly because he's afraid of the Somali vote. The notion that Tim Walz fixes things is laughable. Gov. Walz breaks things. What does Tim Walz have to say about the 480 whistleblowers from Minnesota's Department of Human Services. They insist that Gov. Walz retaliated against them when they blew the whistle on the Medicaid fraud scandal. These employees created a Twitter account, then reported on the Medicaid fraud. While Gov. Walz assumed the role of good guy in public, he retaliated against the employees privately. These accusations were public once they were posted through Twitter. Making this that much more interesting is a recorded quote from Jodi Harpstead: Ms. Harpstea...

It's predictable that WCCO-TV, the CBS station in Minneapolis, MN, wouldn't investigate the Somali/Medicaid fraud fiasco. Amongst Minnesota conservatives, WCCO is known as part of the DFL's protectorate. The joke is that the next time that WCCO does a hard-hitting investigation of the DFL, aka Democrat-Farmer-Laborer Party, it'll be the first hard-hitting investigation of the DFL. Therefore, the necessity for CBS National doing the investigative report . The investigatve report starts by saying "Luxury cars, private villas and overseas wire transfers: CBS News obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars as part of one of the biggest COVID-era fraud schemes." Gently omitted from the report is that most of the grifters are Somalis. The report continues, saying "The files document a spending spree in which defendants, many of Somali descent, took taxpayer money meant to feed ...

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...