From The Hill newspaper,
Minnesota finds itself in an unwelcome, divisive political spotlight.
I wonder why? The Hill mentions last week’s ICE shooting, the ongoing multi-billion-dollar welfare frauds, and the announcement by Gov. Tim Walz that he would not run for a third term.
Walz made that announcement on Monday, January 5. Walz cited the distractions arising from the ongoing fraud crisis as the reason for abandoning the race. The epicenter of the multi-billion-dollar fraud crisis lies within the state’s Department of Human Services (DHS).
On Tuesday (Jan. 6) the state’s Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) released a new audit of the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) within DHS, which found, among other items, that the Department had backdated and fabricated crucial documents.
The Auditor writes,
However, during the course of our audit, we identified a number of documents that BHA either backdated or created after our audit began.
With all of these acronyms–OLA, BHA, DHS–it can be difficult to follow the plot. But I’ll offer my own acronym: WTF? I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like a crime.
On Wednesday (Jan. 7), the Oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a five (5)-hour hearing on the Minnesota frauds. While that hearing was taking place in Washington, DC, the ICE shooting occurred back in Minneapolis, setting off another multi-day period of “unrest.”
All of the above occurred in just a three-day period last week.
Today (Sunday, Jan. 11), The Hill writes regarding the Walz withdrawal,
For Democrats, Walz’s decision to bow out might be a blessing, politically.
“It was the right move for Walz because honestly we would have lost,” one Democratic strategist said. “Things were looking grim and every Democrat I spoke to in the state acknowledged that.”
Democrats are hoping that the ICE shooting will erase all memories of the $9 billion-fraud story and focus voter anger on Donald Trump.
Here’s the thing: the 2026 elections aren’t for another 296 days. I feel confident in predicting that the deciding event has not yet occurred.
The fraud story is not going away. There will be more fraud indictments, trials and convictions in 2026. There will be more legislative hearings at the state and national level.
I will remind readers that the state legislature is divided in Minnesota (101-D to 100-R) and the state’s congressional delegation is split evenly at four apiece.
To win statewide, Democrats must overperform in the state’s few densely-populated urban areas, which they accomplish by ballot harvesting among those euphemistically described as “New Americans.”
Truth be told, if elections were decided strictly by citizens born in the United States, politics in Minnesota would look more like Iowa and Wisconsin and less like Venezuela.
In recent decades, national Democrats have sold Minnesota as the test-case example of “progressive” policies working in a Midwestern, flyover state.
Rather than producing a state of 5.7 million shiny, happy people, these policies result in more news than can be consumed locally.
Ask yourself, why do all of these things happen in Minnesota and nowhere else?
Democrats played the long-game: no longer able to call upon their former Farmer-Labor coalition, they imported a new voter base into Minnesota with offers of access to the state’s Scandinavian-style, grave-to-grave, honor-system welfare system.
Billions in taxpayer dollars were handed out, no questions asked, in exchange for votes every November. And that combination produced the desired results, for Democrats.
As for the New American communities, little was asked in return. Between elections they are stored in unattractive high-rise apartment blocks.
Democrats cannot end the fraud in Minnesota without jeopardizing their political monopoly in the state. Cut off the flow of dollars and the votes and campaign donations will dry up.
The fraud is not the result of a few greedy, rogue individuals within these communities. The billions and billions in fraud is merely the rental price of the voter block increasing with each cycle.
Rather than loyalty, that taxpayer money purchased nothing but resentment within the captured population and an increasing price tag. Think of the analogy of the NFL, with the constant tug of war between players and owners over who gets a bigger share of the TV revenue.
Your tax dollars represent the network broadcast money, Democrats are the team owners, and the New Americans are the players. The players win the games (elections) every Sunday and they think they deserve more $ for producing the on-field result.
Rather than a blissful socialist utopia, Minnesota ended up with a looted treasury and near-constant social unrest. It would have ended no other way. Minnesota is a failed state under current ownership.
