{"id":2525961,"date":"2025-12-29T06:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-blue-zone-fraud-culture\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T06:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:39:55","slug":"minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-blue-zone-fraud-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-blue-zone-fraud-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Daycare Scandal Reveals Blue Zone Fraud Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fminneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-blue-zone-fraud-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2525961&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Chris Bray,writing on his Substack &#8220;tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; praises independent journalist Nick Shirley&#8217;s reporting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/runbeck-election-systems-teamed-up-with-dominion-voting-systems-in-georgia-election-pallets-of-companys-ballots-found-in-fulton-county-warehouse\/\" title=\"Runbeck Election Systems Teamed Up with Dominion Voting Systems in Georgia Election \u2014 Pallets of Company\u2019s Ballots Found in Fulton County Warehouse\">alleged fraud<\/a> in Minnesota-highlighting daycare centers like Quality Learning Center of Minneapolis that receive substantial public funding yet appear nonfunctional,with inspection records showing missing files,violations,and little evidence of real childcare activity. Bray uses these examples to argue that expanding government spending has produced poor oversight, cronyism, and wasted money.<\/p>\n<p>He broadens the critique to California, citing a state auditor&#8217;s report on high\u2011risk programs, past EDD fraud, and the stalled high\u2011speed rail project as further evidence that big, progressive governments frequently enough perform theatrically rather than effectively. Bray contends the &#8220;Blue Zone&#8221; political model prioritizes virtue signaling and patronage over competent governance and says neither that model nor the opposing MAGA project currently offers a satisfactory alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The piece includes embedded videos and links to inspection reports and was originally published on Bray&#8217;s Substack. Chris Bray is a former Army infantry sergeant with a history PhD from UCLA.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s bracket a great piece of journalism with more details and some context.<\/p>\n<p>By now, I assume most readers here have seen the magnificent work of the independent journalist Nick Shirley in Minnesota, showing widespread Somali fraud in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-americas-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-will-open-the-door-for-sex-traffickers\/\" title=\"OPINION: America\u2019s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Will Open The Door For Sex Traffickers\">government-funded programs<\/a> by simply walking up to the front doors of daycare centers and healthcare organizations and inquiring about their services.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Investigated Minnesota&rsquo;s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8AulCA1aOQ?start=2&amp;enablejsapi=1#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Daycare centers with millions of dollars in government funding and&nbsp;<em>no children inside<\/em>, and neighbors who say they&rsquo;ve never seen children going in or coming out. This is a slam dunk, and I couldn&rsquo;t possibly love it any more.<\/p>\n<p>He names the daycare centers he visits, so you can start to find out how much the state of Minnesota knows about the scam without getting off the couch. Daycare centers are licensed and inspected: government inspectors regularly show up with a clipboard and look around. So&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/licensinglookup.dhs.state.mn.us\/Details.aspx?l=1087038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">go look at the record of inspections<\/a>&nbsp;for Quality Learning Center of Minneapolis, the one in the video with the misspelled sign over the door. The whole thing instantly becomes darkly funny, because there&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>no way<\/em>&nbsp;anyone has ever believed that this is a functioning daycare center running at anything near its declared and funded capacity of 99 children:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>I had to shrink the list of violations from the first inspection, in May of 2022, to get a screenshot:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>This inspection implies that there have been some children on site at some point, possibly family, but the inspector couldn&rsquo;t identify anyone in the building: &ldquo;The program did not have a file for each child,&rdquo; and, &ldquo;The program did not have a file for each staff person.&rdquo; No training, no equipment, no records. This place has never been a functioning daycare center. No one has ever believed that it was. But the government checks kept coming, and government inspectors kept coming around and playing make-believe.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/adjusted-for-inflation-government-spending-per-person-in-minnesota-has-risen-by-23-since-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">context<\/a>&nbsp;for this not<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-terribly-subtle crony class featherbedding<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>As government does more and spends more, government does&nbsp;<em>less<\/em>. Explosive budget growth leads to declining effectiveness and quality. Low-tax red states pave the roads. High-tax blue states slop cash around to friends. Progressive elected officials view the task of governance as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/feelsdesperate\/status\/2004642517736980766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of costumed performances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Catholic Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan Dons Hijab in Solidarity With Somalis as Feds Probe Fraud\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bnUdW4DE8qs?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They&rsquo;re not trying to&nbsp;<em>run<\/em>&nbsp;anything. They intend to make faces for the camera and steer money to their friends, the end. Poor infrastructure and &ldquo;license inspections&rdquo; that endlessly note &ldquo;violations&rdquo; without consequence are &mdash; I&rsquo;m sorry, what was I saying?<\/p>\n<p>I know all of this in my bones, ladies and gentlemen, because I live in California. The California state auditor, screaming in the wilderness, released a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.ca.gov\/reports\/2025-601\/#Retained-High-Risk-Agencies-and-Issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long report<\/a>&nbsp;this month on state programs that have been operated with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mi-judge-orders-dem-sec-of-state-to-release-all-communications-with-dominion-facebook-apple-amazon-and-google\/\" title=\"MI Judge Orders Dem Sec of State To Release All Communications With Dominion, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google\">high degree<\/a> of financial risk,&nbsp;<em>without serious efforts to address the risks<\/em>:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>And so&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/newsletters\/whatmatters\/2020\/11\/california-edd-fraud-claims-inmates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>&nbsp;is just normal stuff, California being California:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/oX0LR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;this weekend notes that California has dropped its lawsuit against THAT ORANGE BASTARD for withdrawing federal funding to the state&rsquo;s alleged high-speed rail project. The project was approved in 2008, the&nbsp;Times&nbsp;notes, and has been under active construction for a decade. The plan was to link Los Angeles and San Francisco with bullet trains by 2020. Result: &ldquo;About 80 miles of guideway have been completed in the Central Valley, according to the authority,&rdquo; without tracks. I walked around on some of that guideway&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/gavins-keynesian-hole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">back in August<\/a>, if you remember the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Money is spent. People receive the money. And then &hellip; uh &hellip; wait, are you saying you actually expected to find&nbsp;<em>childcare<\/em>&nbsp;at this childcare center?<\/p>\n<p>Blue Zone political culture is empty. There&rsquo;s nothing in it. They don&rsquo;t make anything, they don&rsquo;t do anything, they aren&rsquo;t trying to&nbsp;<em>do<\/em>&nbsp;anything. They&rsquo;re trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-fauci-backtracks-on-wearing-multiple-face-masks-after-pushing-it-just-one-week-ago\/\" title=\"Dr. Fauci Backtracks on Wearing Multiple Face Masks After Pushing It Just One Week Ago\">virtue signal<\/a> and give money away to their friends, the only successes they seek. You can see the results everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>If you accidentally allow your eye to fall upon the pages of the&nbsp;New York Times, these days, you&rsquo;ll notice that the&nbsp;<em>good<\/em>&nbsp;people, the warm and wonderful people who aren&rsquo;t mean right-wing bigots, are just saying over and over again that Trump has failed and his entire project is irrecoverably over. Here&rsquo;s the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/pJWLR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest version<\/a>&nbsp;of this column that they publish almost daily under a variety of bylines:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2025\/12\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252Fff87fb4a-78e3-4394-a265-528ac70879ae_1148x558.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>resistance<\/em>&nbsp;can&rsquo;t find its own ass with both hands and a team of assistants. The alternative to the Trump inflection is empty buildings with daycare center signs that are there solely to allow someone to cash government checks. You can hate Donald Trump and see that point. The Blue Model isn&rsquo;t an alternative. It doesn&rsquo;t do anything. It can&rsquo;t. It doesn&rsquo;t exist for that purpose. The Tim Walz\/Gavin Newsom path, the&nbsp;<em>kind and progressive<\/em>&nbsp;answer to Mean Orange Man, is the purest form of impotent dipshittery ever devised by human minds, leading inexorably to insolvency and ruin. It cannot be redeemed. If you want to offer an alternative to MAGA, you&rsquo;ll have to come up with something else.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/the-trajectory-of-blue-zone-fraud?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=484195&amp;post_id=182709992&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=n1v0&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> was originally published in the author&rsquo;s substack &ldquo;Tell Me How This Ends.&rdquo; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2025\/12\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F2364dcba-2bbd-4019-a2db-12e856af4103_1624x1390.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army, and has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles. Find his Substack, &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter exposes Minnesota daycare and care fraud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2525962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-at-2.26.40-PM-1024x573.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69624,69626,69623,69625,6772],"class_list":["post-2525961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-blue-zones","tag-childcare-oversight","tag-daycare-scandal","tag-fraud-culture","tag-minneapolis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-at-2.26.40-PM-1024x573.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525965,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525961\/revisions\/2525965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}