Minnesota fraud: Walz takes the hit

“It isn’t often that politicians pay a price for the failures of government,” said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. But in a “rare and welcome” exception, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced this week he would not seek re-election as a result of the state’s billion-dollar welfare fraud scandal. For months, Walz shrugged off the rip-off of taxpayer funds as a
regrettable consequence of Minnesota’s generous, Scandinavian-style
safety net. But outrage grew as more than 90 mostly Somali...