Yes, it’s true. You the Minnesota taxpayer are underwriting the get-out-the-vote effort every election cycle on behalf of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party (the Democrats).
And all of this is occurring (more or less) within the letter of the law.
I have written frequently on the topic of the Democratic money machine, in my Minnesota For Sale series. You will recall the basics: a state party funded by out-of-state billionaires and an “in))dependent” political action committee (PAC) called the Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM) assigned to do the election dirty work.
ABM is actually a network of corporate entities with different indiviual purposes, “527” political funds, and 501c4 and c3 nonprofit companies. The individual who for years sat at the center of this network is Denise Cardinal.
Cardinal serves as the long-time board member and corporate treasurer of the ABM affiliate nonprofit Minnesota Voice. Their mission,
Minnesota Voice is the convener and coordinator of the state’s largest 501c(3) nonpartisan civic engagement network.
“Nonpartisan” here holds only the most legalistic, lawyer-crafted meaning. Everyone involved is a Democrat. And here “civic engagement” means getting out the DFL vote every election.
At the three of Voice’s members are in fact 501c4 (“dark money”) corporations. But that’s just splitting hairs. To support the work of members, Voice gives out cash grants to support nonprofit “civic engagement.”
The MN Voice coalition covers the entire breadth of every ethnic and lifestyle demographic supporting Democrats. Many of these member nonprofits also do big business as vendors to state government, providing outsourced social welfare programs (job training, health care, etc.) directly to individuals, and are then reimbursed by state taxpayers.
The executive director of MN Voice is Hwa Jeong Kim, who serves on the St. Paul city council. Her council bio reads,
She currently serves as the executive director of Minnesota Voice, a nonprofit focused on voting rights, voting access, civic engagement, and education.
I have included a few (but not all) of her member nonprofits in the above table.
Business got bigger after 2022, when for the first time in a decade, Democrats won complete control of state government, by the narrowest of margins. Democrats rewarded many of those nonprofits with noncompetitive direct appropriations (earmarks) voted in by the Democrat-controlled state legislature.
In every instance, earmarks are just part of the revenue these nonprofits enjoy from state taxpayers, as shown above, totalling more than $52 million over the seven years that Tim Walz (D) has served as governor.
Some notes on the above table:
Anika Foundation, you may recall, was the victim of fraudsters. Two contractors of Anika pled guilty in federal court to submitting false voter registrations of county elections offices.
The nonprofit COPAL serves the hispanic community. In addition to the grant it received from MN Voice, COPAL also received a grant for $89,000 directly from the ABM parent nonprofit. Most recently, COPAL has been supporting the training of ICE “observers,”
Isuroon is not a member of the ABM coalition, but has operated it’s own modest PAC under the name Somali American Women PAC for the past three election cycles. SAWPAC has previously endorsed the re-election of Keith Ellison (D) for attorney general.
New America (NADC) was in the news recently for its controversial participation in the scandal-ridden free food program.
I have written frequently on the subject of Somali Community Resettlement Services (SCRS) over the past four years.
Worth noting: MPR News reported a decade ago that the respective CEO’s of Isuroon and New American (NADC) both attended the 2016 Democratic National Convention as delegates.
Your tax dollars at work!
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