Liberty & Prosperity Blog

If I wsa advising Lisa Demuth's campaign, one of the first things I'd do at Friday night's debate is highlight how "a Minnesota-based company belonging to the Indian conglomerate Essar Group" is building "a major steel plant" in "southeast Iowa's Lee County." According to this Iowa Public Radio article , "President Donald Trump on Monday announced an $18 billion investment in a fully integrated American steel system, including a major steel plant coming to southeast Iowa's Lee County. The $15 billion plant will be built by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota-based company belonging to the Indian conglomerate Essar Group. The other $3 billion will help complete Mesabi’s new mine in Minnesota’s Iron Range, which will supply iron ore to the Iowa steel plant. Gov. Tim Walz insists that Minnesota is one of the best places to build a business or raise a family. This isn't Minnesota's initial embarrassment. In Sept, 2025, KARE11 repor...

Crying Grant Hauschild is returning for a rematch with Babbitt Mayor Andrea Zupancich . Hauschild is best known for his emotional speech on the Senate Floor over last session's assault weapons ban. A portion of that speech is included in this Fox9 report: It's difficult to handicap this race because I don't have the connections in the area that I once had. Hauschild might get helped by this vote in Duluth but get hurt in Iron Range cities like Hibbing, Eveleth, Virginia, Babbitt and Internationak Falls. Zupancich will benefit from being Babbitt's popular mayor and from being part of a group of Iron Range mayors that endorsed President Trump in 2020. Zupancich would be wise to spotlight Hauschild's votes for some of the DFL's wildest bills. For instance, Hauschild voted for increasing the size of Minnesota's "state government by nearly 40% when they grew the state’s two-year budget from $52 billion to $72 billion." Then State Sen. Hauschild voted to...

Democrats have run on the issue of affordability since the 2025 elections. It's time that we rolled out some stubborn things known as facts. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that GDP grew by 4.0% in Q4 of 2020 . Meamwhile, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that GDP grew by 6.4% in Q1 of 2021. Instead of being smart and doing nothing or, at maximum, making minor adjustments, then taking credit for the Trump economy, Democrats blew the entire thing up. BTW, we were in a recession at the end of Q2 of 2022. FYI- Inflation had jumped to 9.1% as of July 1, 2022. Gas-at-the-pump had jumped to $5.22/gallon. To drop from an economy growing at 6.4% to being in a recession in a year isn'tthe type of job performance I want in my next economist. Going from inflation of 1.4% to 9.1% in 18 months is pathetic. I don't want that on my next inflation czar's resume. Talking to the people: I'm not buying the Democrats' affordability schtick. The Democrats care as m...

The evidence is unmistakable. Sen. Amy Klobuchar sees Medicaiid fraud as a purely partisan issue . Sen. Klobuchar doesn't see Medicaid fraud as a problem needing fixing. We've known this since the Center for the American Experiment quoted Sen. Klobuchar as saying "The people of Minnesota were ripped off. This was wrong and it should have been caught earlier." Then the Center reported "between January 20, 2022 — the day the FBI raided Feeding Our Future — and December 31, 2025 — right before she launched her campaign for governor — Amy Klobuchar issued 1,085 press releases , and not one of them addressed the Minnesota fraud scandal ." Whst Klobuchar said at FarmFest is right. Minnesotans were ripped off. Unfortunately, she's a phony. She thinks that saying the right thing, then doing nothing, fixes Minnesota's worst problems. This isn't a one-off. It's a pattern. Recently, Sen. Klobuchar unveiled her 'plan' to make health insurance aff...

Esme Murphy, who has frequemtly interviewed Sen. Klobuchar, wrote this WCCO article , reporting "Klobuchar is way ahead in fundraising with $3.44 million cash on hand to Demuth's $544,000, but Demuth has closed some of the gap with the help of outside money. Records show an outside Super PAC called Restore Sanity has given $2.8 million from at least 26 separate donations to support Demuth's campaign, most of it going to advertising." First, let's straighten out this intentionaly provocative verbiage. If the money was contributed according to U.S. law, then it isn't "outside money." That's why we're called the UNITED STATES ! Let's eliminate such language. We're all allowed to participate. Finally, it's time to eliminate this type of slanted coverage. What makes MY JOB fun is that Sen. Klobuchar thinks that a different set of rules apply to her than the rules that apply to Speaker Demuth. For instance, Sen. Klobuchar apparently t...

Anyone that thinks that DFL politicians, especially Sen. Klobuchar and Lt. Gov. Flanagan, are doing their utmost to positively affect Minnesotans' affordability hasn't paid an electric bill or renewed their license tab fees or paid their property taxes lately. Lisa Demuth is paying attention to what I'm calling 'the DFL's affordability hoax.' Speaker Demuth, hopefully soon Gov. Demuth, wrote "Minnesotans pay too much in electricity costs under Democrats’ 2040 mandates. I was proud to lead with my House Republican colleagues in taking the first meaningful steps in decades toward ending the nuclear moratorium. Amy Klobuchar is afraid to tell Minnesotans where she really stands. Let me be clear: finishing what we started and ending that moratorium will be a top priority when I’m Governor." Why the DFL opposes cheap, clean electricity is incomprehensible . There shouldn't have been a nuclear moratorium to start with. This is the most important point: ...