Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he is dropping re-election bid
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The announcement comes amid heightened scrutiny of the state's handling of alleged child care fraud. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is now considering a bid for governor.

Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, cited heightened attention on fraud allegations in Minnesota

Late last month, a video from right-wing influencer Nick Shirley went viral, alleging fraud at child care facilities in Minnesota. After the video went viral, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would freeze all federal child care payments to the state. Days later, Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators found the child care facilities in question “were operating as expected.”

“the political gamesmanship we’re seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder to win. But as I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all,” he said. “Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences.”

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  • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    27 days ago

    God, Dems are so useless. I haven’t really looked very deeply into this situation other than that original video was just full of spurious claims of Somali daycares fraudulently taking a bunch of government money while not having any children that they are serving. The Democrats can’t just point out that this is using racism to put forward all these fake claims without any real evidence, their response has just been “actually, we hate fraud, so we are immediately auditing everyone and everything to stop fraud”.

    And that has left Walz and the Dems in a no-win situation. The Republicans have been calling for Walz’s resignation for overseeing all of this fraud and waste of taxpayer money. But the Dems answer is that they will step in and stop all this fraud going on, because we will treat these accusations as having merit to show that “we also hate people getting taxpayer money”, but that gives credence to the premise that they oversaw massive amounts of Somalis defrauding the government.