Lisa Demuth's take-action press conference, Amy Klobuchar's word salad ad

Today was a study in contrasts between GOP gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth and Amy Klobuchar, the DFL's do-nothing gubernatorial nominee. Speaker Demuth co-hosted a press availability with Ryan Wilson, her running mate, focusing on Medicaid fraud. According to this Alpha News article, Speaker Demuth "unveiled her updated plan to combat fraud in state government." Speaker Demuth's plan would include "fraudsters would get mandatory prison time, receive a lifetime ban from welfare benefits in Minnesota, and anyone who gets welfare benefits in Minnesota would be restricted from transferring money overseas."

That's what substantive proposals look like. I trust people who get specific. I don't trust people who speak in platitudes. Amy Klobuchar is an expert in speaking in platitudes. She’s good at saying good-sounding things. She’s worthless at doing what needs to be done. We need a person who fixes things. We don’t need a person who’s good at saying they’ll get things done. Here's Amy Klobuchar's first ad, which is an exercise in platitudes:

Lisa Demuth nailed Klobuchar on saying a lot and doing nothing:
At Tuesday’s press conference, Demuth said Klobuchar issued over 1,000 press releases between 2022 and 2025 "during the biggest fraud scandal in state history. Not one of those press releases mentioned fraud."
KARE11 compared Speaker Demuth's anti-fraud plan with Sen. Klobuchar's plan in this videotape:

The thing that stands out for me is how Sen. Klobuchar did nothing during 2022-2025. It's true that wasn't part of her official reponsibilities but it's telling that she did nothing while it happened.

Compare that with Speaker Demuth's naming of her Lt. Gov. to an anti-fraud task force. Compare that with Gov. Walz having Lt. Gov. Flanagan doing nothing about fraud, too.

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