Gov. Tim Walz & Minnesota taxpayers get fleeced

Democrats staggeringly gullible!

Now that Minnesota has retained Paul Bunyan’s axe in its dismal 17 to 7 defeat of the Wisconsin Badgers men’s football team, it’s our privilege to throw a little shade on its governor. You remember Tim Walz, don’t you? Guy the Democrats picked as Kamala’s running mate. (We say again: DJT has been lucky in his opponents.)

“Coach Walz” is presiding over the kind of crisis that would bring down governments in the U.K., cause riots in Haiti, and sink various South Pacific island-nations into the sea. The money graph, please:

“Gov. Tim Walz and fellow Democrats are being asked to explain how so much money was stolen on their watch.”

Not Fox News. Not Steve Bannon. That’s the New York Times. The President’s favorite source of fake news describes the scam as “staggering in its scale and brazenness.” Maybe one billion dollars worth of graft, all perpetrated by Somali immigrants attracted to Minnesota’s progressive welfare honey jar. The scammers brandished the immigrant and race cards as their get-out-of-jail card until Donald Trump’s Justice Department lowered the boom.

Federal prosecutors are charging 86 immigrants with stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed, people housed, and autism treated. The meals were never served. No one was housed. Autism went untreated. Instead, the Somali grifters bought luxury cars, houses, and foreign real estate.

Don’t bash them, they’re immigrants

Minnesota’s fraud scandal stood out even in the context of rampant theft during the pandemic, when Americans stole tens of billions through unemployment benefits.  

The episode has raised broader questions for some residents about the sustainability of Minnesota’s Scandinavian-modeled system of robust safety net programs bankrolled by high taxes. That system helped create an environment that drew immigrants to the state over many decades, including tens of thousands of Somali refugees. — “How fraud swamped Minnesota’s social services system on Tim Walz’s watch“

As the schemes progressed, more red flags than fly at the United Nations plaza began popping up. But Somali scammers warded off closer inspection by playing victims of oppression. The Twin Cities, after all, were Ground Zero for the George Floyd insurrection. 

“Elected officials in the state — particularly those who were part of the state’s Democratic-led administration — were reluctant to take more assertive action in response to [racism] allegations in the Somali community.”

Blaska’s Bottom Line: Tim Walz is a stupid, foolish man. So Woke he can’t tell a woman from a Pez dispenser. Chosen by a party that wanted/wants to defund the police, dumb down our schools, and politicize the courts — all in the name of equity and diversity. Don’t expect accountability from the party of Big Gummint compassion when it doesn’t expect it from its universe of victims.

We hope — but do not expect — Madison and Dane County officials to take notice as they keep throwing money at dysfunction. Why won’t the Republican legislature audit the $325 million — much of it state money — Dane County spends on social services? 

Are they afraid of the race card?