Why Walz? It was a question that puzzled many of us after the then Vice President Kamala Harris selected the Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as her running mate for her presidential campaign.
For some of us, ”Why Walz?” was not our first reaction, which was “Thank goodness it was not Josh Shapiro,” since it appeared that the governor of Pennsylvania would have been a strong candidate.
The real question should be: “Why was it not Shapiro?”
Ms. Harris, in her book “107 Days,” apparently indicates that Shapiro wanted too big a part in the administration, an allegation that Shapiro denies, nevertheless, his denial does not answer the question: Why Walz?
That question remained after we learned that Tim Walz was the governor of Minnesota, we became aware of Governor Walz’s involvement with China, his wife enjoying watching Minneapolis burn from the BLM fires, his falsifying his military record, and his being so politically correct that he earned the nickname “Tampon Tim” for mandating that Tampons be placed in boys bathrooms in schools.
Ms. Harris, as only she can, used a great deal of words – some might say it was a “word salad” – to explain that she did not select Pete Buttigieg because she did not think the country was ready for an openly gay man on a ticket with a black woman who was married to a Jewish man.
The question remained: Why Walz?
One theory is that the team that ran President Barack Obama’s presidency also ran Joe Biden’s presidency and was planning on running Kamala Harris’ presidency. To accomplish this, they needed either a corrupt, or clueless, president and vice president, which may answer the questions: Why not Shapiro and why Walz?
Minnesota
In 2021, when Ms. Harris became Vice President and Tim Walz was the Governor of Minnesota, a meeting in the office of the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, stirred the first indications of corruption.
In 2019, Keith Ellison, became the Minnesota Attorney General after having served from 2003-2006 in the Minnesota House of Representatives and from 2007-2019 as a representative of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, a position now held by Ilhan Omar, who threw parties at a restaurant owned by one of the persons alleged to have been involved in the food scandal.
President Bill Clinton brought the first 10,000 Somalians into Minnesota, and their numbers have increased to an estimated 80,000 in Minneapolis (a city of 425,000), which has made them such an important voting block that Minneapolis Mayor Jack Frey recently gave part of his speech in Somalian. The initial estimate is that at least 75% of these Somalians are on welfare, perhaps because only 31% of Somalians are literate
On December 11, 2021, an attendee secretly recorded a 54-minute secret, closed-door meeting inside Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s official state office. That “attendee” has been a convicted defendant in a case involving the contents of that meeting.
On the tape of that meeting that was released by American Experiment earlier this year, Ellison sympathizes with, encourages, and ultimately promises assistance to a group of Somali-American business leaders, many of whom would later be charged or convicted in the largest COVID relief fraud scheme in U.S. history.
The audio reveals Ellison mocking state agency oversight, vowing to “fight” on behalf of the very operators who investigators say were deeply involved in a web of wire fraud, money laundering, and fake meal claims across Minnesota.
The Fraud
The recording contains explosive revelations that 70 Somali community members in Minnesota participated in stealing $250 million in federal COVID child-feeding funds.
The first fraud scheme was under the umbrella of a children’s meals program called “Feeding Our Future.” For this fraud, the non-profit teamed up with local Somali-owned businesses, supposedly feeding tens of thousands of children, but, in reality, submitting bogus reimbursement claims and defrauding the state.
The fraudulent operation stole an estimated $250 million in federal child nutrition funds, money intended to feed poor children but instead used to purchase luxury homes, foreign real estate, jewelry, and lavish lifestyles.
A second fraud program was when fraudsters searched for people who might have been eligible for the program for the children who have autism that provided facilities for the children who have autism, such as rehab centers and submitted fake reimbursement claims on their behalf. Initially predicted to cost some $2.6 million per year, the claims soared from $21 million in 2021 to $104 million last year. After years of no actions under the Biden-Harris-Walz-Ellison combo, in September 2025 the Trump administration brought charges.
Perhaps the cruelest of the thefts involved a perpetrator named Asha Farhan Hassan, who targeted a Minnesota Health Care Program offering medical services to young people with autism.
Joseph Thompson, the acting U.S. Attorney appointed by President Trump, and his replacement Daniel Rosen, have indicated that Hassan and her partners recruited parents in the Somali community whose children did not have an autism diagnosis and an individual treatment plan and rated such a plan. The Hassan group “kicked back” approximately $300 to $1,500 per month to the parents.
Prosecutors estimate the Hassan group raked in some $14 million, some of which she used to buy property in Kenya, a country that borders Somalia and where Ilan Omar spent time in a refugee camp.
So far, federal prosecutors have charged 86 people with committing felonies and convicted 59; all but eight are Somalian.
What about Governor Walz?
The theft was so mammoth that hundreds of employees of the Minnesota Department of Human Services wrote anonymously on X that Walz, who served as Vice President Kamala Harris‘ running mate in 2024, “has failed Minnesota,” and added, “Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.”
What about Kamala Harris?
Whistleblowers from the Minnesota Department of Human services have indicated that they alerted Harris of their concerns about the involvement of Governor Walz. These employees also complained of being retaliated against.
Just before Harris selected Walz as her running mate in June 2024, some of the allegations of fraud were exposed in a case where a jury recently found Abdifatah Yusuf and his wife, Lul Ahmed, guilty of stealing $7.2 million from Minnesota’s Medicaid program while operating a home healthcare business. The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office said the business lacked an office building and operated “for years out of a mailbox.”
2025
However, post-election Judge Sarah West, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton (D), apparently decided that she did not trust juries and declared the defendants “not guilty.” The case is on appeal.
In 2025 the Trump administration in September 2025 took legal actions against eight defendants for fraud under the Housing Stabilization Services program.
Various agencies in the Trump administration, including Treasury, are investigating the alleged fraudulent activities in Minnesota that may have involved a billion dollars, which is about 8% of the GDP of Somalia., and according to the Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler, may reach $8 billion. Either way, the projections are that it is the largest such fraud in our nation’s history.
The Temporary Protective Status for Somalians – instigated in 1991 – was canceled.
Questions to Consider
What do you think would be happening if Harris-Walz had won?
Why do you think Kamala Harris selected the Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her V.P.?
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My friends who voted for Kamala/Walz are mostly cultured, highly educated, successful people in a variety of professions I respect. A few work in non-profits I don't respect. Others, though, run their own businesses. Or have non government careers. They are community minded. They are all Boomers or X-ers. I think they just want to live in the sixties forever even if they were born in the seventies and they don't realize the Democratic Party is not at all what they marched for back then. Their brains retired years ago even if they still are out in the world working. When they find out I voted for Trump they have a meltdown and get over it and we never talk politics again or they never talk to me again. It is what it is. God grant me the strength to change California's government and accept what I can't change in Minnesota. That's my Zen wisdom for the day.
Straight to the point. The question is how much of the stolen money will be recovered?
When convicted how much of the bank accounts and real property owned by the thieves will be confiscated, even after it is found the burglars hid much of it in "none profits" that will eventually kick back to them?
It is a sad note when the elected representative has this shoved under her nose daily and she walks away ... (what theft, what graft, etc. etc.)
Must have taken her lessons from Waters in Calif.
Why Waltz? Simple a willing dupe who profited.
Now start looking at the City of SB and the County of SB and ask why where money is being spent as deficits expand.
Did someone mention a unneeded bike path on Cliff Dr.? Chuckle