Minnesota Rep. Ben Davis says the push to impeach Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison may have stalled at the State Capitol, but the fight is “far from over.”
“After hearing this week’s news that the Quality Learing Center was raided, it’s far from over. In fact, in many ways, we feel like we’re just getting started,” Rep. Davis told Liz Collin on her podcast.
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He noted a past Alpha News interview with former U.S. Assistant Attorney Joe Thompson, who spoke about the culture of fraud that’s now “expected and accepted in Minnesota.”
Davis said Thompson’s remarks “really hit home for me because my first two years in the legislature during the Democrat trifecta, me and other Republicans, we were screaming from the rooftops about all the fraud that we believe was going on in these government programs and it was like no one across the aisle seemed to care about it.”
“We began also hearing from whistleblowers within DHS that they were being retaliated against for trying to report on the fraud that was going on,” he added.
“So last November, Rep. Mike Wiener and I, we began discussing articles of impeachment on Gov. Walz for failing to faithfully steward public funds,” Davis said.
He also explained that “about a month after that conversation I had with Rep. Wiener, Joe Thompson comes out with a bombshell press conference where he noted that there was at least $9 billion worth of fraud going on in our Medicaid programs. And that hit us like a ton of bricks.”
“At that point, it kind of became a no-brainer that Gov. Walz needed to be held accountable,” Davis said.
He told Collin that “under Article 8 of the Minnesota Constitution it says that the Minnesota House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching constitutional officers for corrupt conduct in office. And we believe that the governor knew that this fraud was happening. We were certainly telling him about it. And I even believe he took measures to enable it. And then add on top of that, the retaliation against whistleblowers. This sounded like pretty corrupt behavior to us.”
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“[Rep.] Wiener and myself testified in the rules committee on a resolution that co-chair [Rep. Harry] Niska authored, the R13A resolution. That was setting the stage for how the impeachment proceedings would happen over in the fraud committee … unfortunately all eight Democrats voted no and all eight Republicans voted yes, and a tie on a bill or a resolution kills it,” Davis said.
Despite the deadlock, Davis said the matter is far from over and that the actual impeachment resolutions still need to be heard. “I’m still calling for HR 6 and HR 7 to be heard in that committee because that’s not actually what we voted on. Again, it was the R13A resolution we voted on that kind of set the stage for them. But HR 6 and HR 7 are alive and well sitting in the rules committee and I’m looking forward to having a hearing on them,” he said.
He noted that “we need full transparency in investigating these constitutional officers. There’s no lack of preliminary evidence. And there’s certainly no lack of DHS whistleblowers.”
“If these men are innocent, what do they have to hide?” he questioned.
In talking about how he believes “it’s obvious that Keith Ellison lied under oath to [U.S.] Sen. Josh Hawley,” Davis pointed out that “lying under oath before Congress … is a violation of 18 USC 1621. That’s a felony.”
Politicians across the aisle “say things like no one here wants fraud happening on their watch, but yet they’re the ones that kept refilling the cookie jar. And so I’m not buying it … I think the culture of fraud has permeated St. Paul,” Davis commented.
Collin asked Davis if he thinks Walz and Ellison will ever be held accountable.
“I sure hope so,” he responded. “Again, this week we were learning that there were 22 raids happening in Minnesota, so perhaps more accountability is coming, but we really need to see accountability for our constitutional officers.”
Liz Collin
Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
Dr. JC Chaix
Dr. JC Chaix is an editor, educator, and an expert in media studies. He wrote and directed the Alpha News documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" and "Minnesota v We the People."
