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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Washington State COVERS UP Somali Daycare Fraud - Data Scrubbed In Real Time
Description: Washington State politicians are scrubbing public records in real-time to hide Somali daycare fraud—and they're calling investigative journalists 'extremist influencers' for knocking on doors. We're talking ghost daycares pulling in $2.4 million while serving just three kids, addresses mysteriously disappearing from state websites, and elected officials attacking reporters instead of auditing the fraud. Minnesota's $9 billion scandal brought down Tampon Tim, yet Washington's socialist mayor, attorney general, and governor are running a full-court press to protect fraudsters over taxpayers. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders proactive fraud investigations—you know, like responsible leaders do. The math doesn't math when a dayc...