Nick Shirley visits California
And it’s been a working vacation:
You remember Nick Shirley, the brave young investigative journalist who reported on the Minneapolis Quality “Learing” Center and exposed widespread fraud in Gov. Tim Walz’s Gopher State. …
He next set his sights on California, and on Wednesday, he released a 40-minute video showing what he’s found so far:
? Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger… We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.
We ALL work… pic.twitter.com/7nWX9jL6NI
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) March 17, 2026
“Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger… We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.
“We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.
“It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America’s fraud crisis.”
Apparently Governor Newsom was not especially pleased, because his press office countered with an AI-generated image that implied Shirley’s motive was some sort of unhealthy interest in children. I kid you not:
Nick Shirley, right now pic.twitter.com/vWrp34Dmfa
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) March 17, 2026
Newsom’s clever little witticism didn’t get a whole lot of favorable responses, however.
Ho hum, ‘if you can’t defend against the charges, attack the accuser’.
Newsom-Walz; Walz-Newsom.
‘Fraud? I don’t see any fraud.’
One uses dyslexia as an excuse;
the other is a garden variety idiot.
Both are festering boils on the derriere of American politics.
If Newsome gets the nomination in ’28 clips from this will be very potent.
The fraudsters pretended their hospice clients were kids??
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Or Newsome’s writers just can’t keep up?
Marxism 101- attack the messenger who points out your failings
Newsom and his writers don’t appear to understand how bad they are at this.
California is in a failure spiral. I hope it lasts longer than my brother-in-law, who relies on a CA state pension.
Someone on Newsom’s staff is really projecting here. Who would have thought of something so nasty unless it was already in their mind?
The Democratic Party relies for the most part on the Magoo electorate who simply do not react to performance and events. (Supplemented by the doofus electorate who react in perverse ways).
I’ve been saying that we are living in a scam based society for at least a couple decades. Fraud is pretty much a term of legal violation, but I mean something broader. Scams can be either legal or illegal.
If Newsom gets the nomination his miserable and corrupt track record will be of no consequence.
And why should it?
He has been in politics since 1997 and has never lost any election despite the voters in Ca having plenty of time to witness his ineptitude , incompetence and dishonesty.
Democrat voters care only that a Democrat wins the election; nothing else matters.
Any one found this reported in the media, including the right leaning ones? I haven’t seen it.
A few months ago that Newsome twitter account broke out the juvenile “you’re gay” response to Scott Bessent.
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/2014741470335664605
@physicsguy: Any one found this reported in the media, including the right leaning ones? I haven’t seen it.
FWIW, I saw the Nick Shirley story reported as the lead on Gutfeld last night.
What they accuse others of is exactly what they are.
I actually watched this video, and it was surprisingly low on evidence. Shirley went to a few addresses that were taking government money for services, found a lot of empty or near-empty offices, and yelled questions about fraud at people who didn’t want to talk to him. Yes, it seemed likely that these places weren’t providing the daycare or hospice services they claim to offer — but he didn’t really give us any actual proof of that.
We can hope that Shirley’s work ends up shaming major journalism outlets or government agencies into conducting “real” fraud investigations, but there’s nothing actionable in the video itself. (In fact, it’s possible that Gavin Newsom’s oversize response will be a bigger impetus for change than the actual video — “Streisand effect”-style — because it makes it seem as if he doesn’t care whether fraud is happening or not.)
One thing that bothered me was the way Shirley kept saying that it’s wrong for these people to be committing fraud. I mean, of course it is, but that’s not the real point. If you create an opportunity for free money, even a dishonest one, there are always people who will take you up on it. He really should be directing his accusations toward the government agencies that dole out these enormous sums in the first place, without bothering to track where the money is going. (And we should all be asking questions about whether the government should be funding these services in the first place.)
@TR: “(And we should all be asking questions about whether the government should be funding these services in the first place.)”
A question I have been asking about why the TSA airport screening is still a government funded activity, being held hostage to Dem congress critters agendas. Those costs can easily be folded into airfares paid by the beneficiary travelers. And thereby further transferred into the economy as applicable.
I have a flight planned for next week and suspect my normal 2 hr. early arrival will have to be at least 3 hours, and I may still end up impacted by connecting flight issues at my stop over city.
There are quite a few such government controls over our lives that have grown over the decades and it is now clearly past time for us to ask “why?” or if these are still justified.