They Can't Even Keep Their Stories Straight – HotAir
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You have to hand it to Nick Shirley. While the Somali/Democrat fraud in Minnesota has been simmering for nearly a decade here in Minnesota (then-Representative and now State Senator Steve Drazkowski was calling for an audit of Medicaid fraud as far back as 2016), Christopher Rufo and Nick Shirley have finally managed to get people to sit up and take notice. 





Shirley’s videos penetrated public consciousness for a number of reasons, but the true masterstroke was filming himself in front of the “Quality Learing Center,” which was an absolutely perfect visual. The people who ran the center not only didn’t actually serve kids, but they couldn’t even spell “learning.”

Governor Walz is doing his whole song and dance, declaring that all the investigations are driven by “white supremacy,” because of course he is. But he is also panicked by the whole scandal, which may or may not threaten his political future in Minnesota, but which surely has destroyed his dream of becoming a national political figure. 

After Nick’s video came out, Walz’s administration tried to mitigate the damage from the “Quality Learing Center” (sounds like a placy where you bring paedos) by announcing that the center had voluntarily closed, anyway, so no point in worrying about it or something. 





Except…today the Quality Learing Center was bringing in kids, and assuring everybody that the center is open for business. 

At the same time, the Minnnesota Star Tribune has reported that the center was shut down last week. The flagship newspaper has also come under scrutiny in the wake of the report from Shirley, with many claiming online that the YouTuber has been reporting on what the paper should have been doing all along.

Citing the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Tikki Brown, the Minnesota paper reported the “Quality Learing Center” was shut down last week.

However, the New York Post spoke to the son of the owner of the day care center on Monday, who claimed that Shirley’s visit took place before they opened the day Shirley visited. Ibrahim Ali argued to the Post, “Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, ‘Hey, they’re not working?’” Despite the reports of the center shutting down, Ali appeared to insist that the center was open for business. 

Ali also blamed the misspelling of the now-infamous sign on a graphic designer. “What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn’t think it was a big issue,” Ali claimed as he also said that he helps out with the facility’s paperwork.





Apparently, Minnesota’s Department of Children, Families, and Learning and the fraudsters couldn’t coordinate their stories. 

It should come as no surprise that the Minneapolis newspaper has been running interference for Governor Walz for years. Its publisher, Steve Grove, was the Commissioner of the Department of Employment & Economic Development under Governor Walz, with whom he is close.

As the story explodes across the country, the Star Tribune has remained remarkably incurious, and most stories about the controversy downplay it to an almost comical extent. 

It’s not just the Star Tribune. Most newspapers are ignoring the story as well, although the story is sexy enough for television stations to cover it. When you can video a “Learing” center, the visual is too good to ignore. 





It tells you how little prepared any of these people were, either in government or among the scammers, for scrutiny that they couldn’t get the simplest elements of their story straight. “They’re closed.” “We’re open!” 

They’ve never had to deal with scrutiny before. The scammers submit invoices, the government pays, the media covers it up. 

Of course, it’s not just daycare. It’s not just Feeding Our Future. It’s not just the autism fraud. It is EVERYTHING. Home health care fraud. Transportation services fraud. 





What’s truly infuriating is not just that the Democrats have been buying votes with our tax money, as bad as that is. You would think they could purchase the votes of third-worlders who lived in refugee camps not too long ago for less than $10 billion or more. 

There has to be a cheaper way to steal elections, you would think. 

But of course, they are wasting taxpayer dollars, so what do they care? And since many of those dollars flow from the feds, they see it as completely free money. 

Back when I was fighting the high tax burden in this state, the lefties created a campaign called “Happy to pay for a better Minnesota,” selling the idea that we get great services for our high taxes. 





But the truth is that they meant “Happy to pay for a better Somalia.” After all, half the GDP of that country is remittances, mostly from…the United States. 

Not that it is news, but soon enough we will find that welfare fraud on this scale is the norm, not the exception, in states around the country. 

It’s the tip of the iceberg. 










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