Walz withdrawal doesn’t solve Minnesota’s scandals |
Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) announcement that he will no longer seek reelection this fall was characteristically unimpressive. Yes, he recited a statement that included the words, “the buck stops with me,” which offered a patina of personal responsibility for the outrageous fraud scandals over which he’s presided as Minnesota’s chief executive. But the phony mea culpa barely lasted one sentence. He immediately pivoted to whiny blamestorming:
“The political gamesmanship we’re seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder to win. We’ve got Republicans here in the legislature playing hide-and-seek with whistleblowers. We’ve got conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers breaking into day care centers and demanding access to our children. We’ve got the president of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongly confiscating child care funding that Minnesotans rely on. It is disgusting. And it is dangerous. Republicans are playing politics with the future of our state. And it’s shameful.”
The buck stops with him, you see, but it’s those nasty Republicans in St. Paul, and “conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers,” and President Donald Trump, of course, who’ve truly acted disgustingly and dangerously and shamefully, or whatever. None of Walz’s political scapegoats are responsible for the staggering criminal schemes that have robbed Minnesota taxpayers of billions of dollars, according to federal prosecutors. I’ll also note that the state’s largest, left-leaning newspaper looked into the viral exposé by the “conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTuber” in question and could only confirm the presence of children