OOOO--kay. I thought Vance was a very bad pick for Trump. It could only be offset by Kamala and the Dems doing something equally or more tone-deaf. And they have. What a gift to Trump/Vance, if they can keep it. (And I have my serious doubts.) This election may end up making the Keystone Cops look like an MIT think tank.
Let's look at some of Walz's wet dreams of woke accomplishment as governor:
And let's look at Governor Walz's state department of education:
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And then there was this:
Let's look at some of Walz's wet dreams of woke accomplishment as governor:
- Disastrous COVID policies
- Radical abortion policy, sweeping away all limits on abortion at any stage of pregnancy
- repealed Minnesota law stating a preference for birth over abortion
- eliminated all limitations on financing of abortion and defunded/repealed alternatives (like counseling or support for abortion alternatives, informed consent, reporting of women's deaths and complications from abortion, laws requiring physicians to treat infants born alive following abortion, laws prohibiting coerced abortions)
- Changing state laws to refer to “pregnant people” rather than “pregnant women”
- Declaring Minnesota a refuge state for discredited transgender therapies and surgeries for minors
- Making “conversion therapy” illegal
- Mandating new “ethnic studies” for public and charter elementary, middle, and high-schools, and requiring school boards to adopt so-called “anti-racist” training and instruction for teachers and students at a time when half of Minnesota’s public-school students are unable to read at grade level
- Collection of school disciplinary data by race
- Banning private colleges from requiring a profession of faith
- Drivers’ licenses and state-funded health care available for illegal immigrants
- Gave convicted felons the right to vote before even finishing probation or parole
- Permanent mail ballots for those who sign up once to vote by mail
- Massive gas, sales, and payroll tax hikes
- 100 percent carbon-free energy mandated by 2040
And let's look at Governor Walz's state department of education:
Feeding Our Future audit finds Minnesota Dept. of Education's oversight "created opportunities for fraud"
By Caroline Cummings, Aki Nace
Updated on: June 13, 2024 / 5:32 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — A special review from the Office of the Legislative Auditor released Thursday determined that the Minnesota Department of Education's oversight of Feeding Our Future — the nonprofit accused of being at the center of a $250 million fraud scheme during the pandemic — was "inadequate" and "created opportunities for fraud."
The 120-page report details the ways in which the department failed to act on prior warning signs about the nonprofit and was ill-prepared to hold Feeding Our Future accountable, even when they were signs before the pandemic began.
Federal authorities have called this case "the largest pandemic fraud in the United States," as members of the nonprofit and its affiliated sponsor sites are accused of using the funds from two federal nutrition programs on luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property, while just a fraction went to feed low-income children. A few of those defendants were found guilty last week of multiple crimes.
The report from the legislative auditor found that the Minnesota Department of Education's last review of Feeding Our Future was in 2018, and while it found serious issues with the nonprofit's operations — including that it did not collect enrollment information from sites — it failed to follow up.
Feeding Our Future audit finds Minnesota Dept. of Education's oversight "created opportunities for fraud"
The 120-page report details the ways in which the department failed to act on prior warning signs about the nonprofit and was ill-prepared to hold Feeding Our Future accountable even before the pandemic struck.
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And then there was this:
Minnesota "hero pay" bonuses were sent to ineligible applicants, audit finds
By Jonah Kaplan
June 11, 2024 / 6:21 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota
ST. PAUL. Minn. — Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans may not have been eligible to receive "hero pay" from state government, according to a new report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor.
"We concluded that the Department of Labor and Industry (DLI), the agency tasked with overseeing and implementing the Minnesota Frontline Worker Pay Program, did not comply with requirements for the program," the report, published on Tuesday, concluded. "The Legislature should consider the amount of risk the state is willing to accept when establishing programs quickly and with eligibility conditions that rely on self-attestation."
Roughly one million frontline workers received a payout in the amount of $487.45 for working through the pandemic; state officials had said about 15% of applications were rejected. The state's initial estimate was that 667,000 people were eligible for hero pay, meaning they would get $750 a person.
According to the audit, 40% of those who received pay did not have their eligibility confirmed.
"There were some checks against state systems like unemployment requirements and adjusted gross income, which the Department of Revenue has," Legislative Auditor Judy Randall told WCCO News. "But for some of these other things, it was the honor system."
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