Liberty & Prosperity Blog

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...

When Gov. Tim Walz tries touting Minnesota as a great place to live, people living in the real world must wonder if Alice in Wonderland is his neighbor. This week, on Dec. 1, 8 Brainerd Lakes Area mayors wrote a letter "eight mayors representing communities throughout the Brainerd Lakes Area wrote 'with deep concern—and growing frustration—about the fiscal direction of our state and the increasing impact it is having on cities across our region.'" In their letter, they wrote "For taxpayers, local governments, and businesses here in the Brainerd Lakes Area, this is more than disappointing; it is alarming. Fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul are beginning to trickle down to our cities, placing strain on local budgets and making responsible, long-term planning more difficult." These aren't fresh-out-of-college students wondering where (or if) their career will get started. For the most part, these are people who are c...

After reading this USA Today article by Nicole Russell , I was reminded of an old (almost ancient) article by NRO's Jim Geraghty about the importance of campaign cash. In 2010, when the GOP picked up 63 seats in the U.S. House, 12 of 15 best-funded Democrats lost. The lesson wasn't that campaign cash isn't important. It's that Democrats had to run with a millstone tied around their necks. That millstone was then called the Affordable Care Act. These days, it's getting called the UNAffordable Care Act. These days in Minnesota, that millstone is titled Tim Walz. The difference between 2010 and 2026 is that Gov. Walz has a rock-solid base known as the Somalis. They'll stick with Walz through thick and even thicker yet. What's required this year to defeat Gov. Walz is a combination of solutions, ledership and personality/likeability. If we want to defeat Gov. Walz this year, and I want that badly , we'll need the party to unite around a candidate who isn...

Thus far, I've focused most of my attention on the various types of Medicaid fraud that the feds have investigated, then prosecuted. I haven't paid as much attention to the Feeding Our Future scam. Notice that I didn't say "alleged scam.' That's because this article reports that "The scandal, which has already led to 61 convictions , has widely been viewed as a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic. At one point, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland called it 'the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme' in the United States." Convictions aren't theories, suppositions or allegations. Convictions are a finding of fact. That takes statements out of the realm of allegedly, then transfers them into the realm of 'proven beyond a reasonable doubt.' While I'm not a legal eagle, I know enough to know that findings of facts are more important than allegations, theories or suppositions. Aimee Bock was found to be the ringleader of the Feedin...