'Sanctuary state': Walz signed law making Minnesota destination for transgender therapies for kids [Flashback]

Vice President Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, brings a track record to the Democrat ticket that could help energize the country's left-wing base along with several progressive transgender policies aimed at children.

Walz, a former Army National Guardsman and a former teacher, was one of the first governors to sign into law a bill making Minnesota a "sanctuary state" for children seeking transgender surgical procedures and hormone prescriptions. This laid the groundwork for several of his more progressive LGBTQ policies.

The law tells courts in Minnesota not to follow prosecutions from other states against people who come to Minnesota for treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgery.

Walz also signed a controversial bill into law that prevents books, which may include explicit material for children, from being removed from public schools in an effort to clap back at parents who complained about certain LGBTQ+ materials in school libraries.

Another key component of his transgender policy agenda is a law requiring free menstrual products in all public school bathrooms. Often called the "tampon law" in the media, it mandates that tampons and pads be provided at no cost in public schools for grades 4 through 12 to accommodate transgender students.

A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Walz’s Minnesota
FrontPage Magazine ^ | Aug 27 2025 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 8/27/2025, 9:28:10 AM by texas booster

Autism claims rose from $3 million to $400 million. The $250 million Somali ‘Feeding Our Future’ free food fraud in which Somali groups stole a quarter of a billion dollars while claiming to feed hundreds of thousands of children who never existed seemed like the biggest case of welfare fraud in Minnesota, but it may be just the beginning.

Somali autism fraud, partly linked to the ‘Feeding Our Future’ scam, may be even bigger and after the FBI raids of autism clinics last December, the scale of it is still being put together. The pattern in both Somali meals for children and autism treatment for children is similar.

In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021. EIDBI autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota similarly shot up from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million in 2021, $279 million in 2022, $399 million in 2023, and nearing $400 million most of the way through 2024 for a total of over $1.4 billion.

How did autism claims rise from $3 million to $400 million a year in just 4 years? (Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...

A Somali housing official in Minnesota was found guilty of stealing public money. Sharmarke Issa, a former commissioner on the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) board, pleaded guilty to charges related to a large-scale fraud scheme that exploited public funds.

As MPHA Board Chairman, Issa was a public official in charge of overseeing taxpayer-funded public housing. The crime: Issa admitted to stealing millions of dollars intended for needy children by exploiting a federal meal program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He resigned from the MPHA board in 2022 after his properties were investigated and was later charged with wire fraud, federal programs bribery, and money laundering.

Issa’s case is part of a larger federal investigation into widespread fraud in Minnesota, in which dozens of people have been charged for stealing more than $250 million from public programs. Other prominent cases include:
<><>Feeding Our Future: This investigation involves dozens of defendants charged with diverting federal child nutrition funds meant for underprivileged children.

Nolosha Development: The Minnesota Attorney General’s office has investigated this company for allegedly defrauding Somali families by collecting down payments for homes that were never built.

Feeding Our Future defendant says his crimes hurt Somali ...
Jan 24, 2025 — Brasel told Mukhtar Shariff that his statements Friday were “dramatically different” than the testimony he gave during trial, which she described as “not credible...

Sahan Journal-——Minnesota AG wants Nolosha Development to refund customers
Apr 4, 2025 — The Attorney General’s Office is asking a judge to rule in its favor in a lawsuit against Nolosha Development, which is accused of collecting deposits from most...

Sahan Journal——Somali refugee who ran public housing agency admits to fraud...Sep 21, 2024 — Brasel will factor in his acceptance of responsibility and non-criminal history when handing down his sentence. Issa was the first migrant appointed by the Minnesota........snip

Walz is not working for our side. He went to Communist China many times.
Glad to undermine our safety with out of control mentally ill trans types as well as illegals and no bail criminals.

‘I have been to China dozens of times,’ Walz said during a 2016 congressional hearing

Then revised it as VP candidate and recalled “closer to 15.”

Actually, Mayor Karen Bass in her training sessions in Cuba went to Cuba fewer times. She admitted to 8 trips to Cuba, one for 2 weeks of training, in the Venceremos Brigade.

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