So, Phil Parrish, running for Minnesota Governor, is a lifelong Minnesotan who understands the values and challenges facing the state.
A retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander with over 21 years of service.
He's a seasoned expert in counterterrorism and foreign policy.
Philip was also one of the first whistleblowers to raise concern about the daycare fraud scandal back in 2016.
A little bit ago, demonstrating his commitment to truth and accountability for serving our country to working as an educator, administrator, farmer.
Philip has dedicated his life to serving others.
And now he's running for governor to put Minnesotans first and lead with integrity, strength and transparency.
I welcome Philip Parrish.
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All right, so good evening and thank you for having me.
And yes, Ron and I have gotten to know each other and I have to tell a fun story.
One of my parishioners and finance committee members came to me and we were talking after a finance meeting and they were quizzing me about...
They've all figured out that I'm running for governor.
They were quizzing me. What are you going to think about this? What do you think about that?
And Ron's name came up and one of my committee members said, I know Ron. I recommend him highly.
So it's been an interesting evolution how I've gotten to know Ron and some of my committee members better as well.
Okay, so let's get back to the starting point and we'll have some more fun conversations to share shortly.
Some of you know me, but for the sake of those that might not have known me as well, I'll kind of do the front end spiel and then get to the heart of things and then hopefully lead into a list of ideas that you can do during Q&A to get some more depth.
So I was born here in Minnesota, Blue Earth, Minnesota.
I graduated from high school in West Concord, Minnesota.
I went to college in Mankato.
I became a teacher.
I taught music, K-12 music for all of all things, 13 years of teaching and became a principal.
And my first principal job was in Austin, Minnesota at Gerard treatment programs.
And I kind of fell into a niche of working with a lot of specialty programs and it was a wonderful experience.
I probably learned more in seven years of being the principal of Gerard treatment programs than I had learned in many, many years of teaching and being a student myself.
And working with the Department of Human Services, working with the Department of Education, working with law enforcement, working with all these different in the clinical staff, working with emotional behavioral disorders.
All these different aspects of trying to help children, it just enlightened me with so many different aspects of my life kind of came together with that job.
I love that job.
In the midst of it, I had joined the Navy and after 9-11, my military career kind of started to take off.
So I was deployed fairly quickly after 9-11.
I bounced back and forth from my principal job to active duty for a few years.
And then I accepted a direct commission and went from enlisted ranks to an officer ranks and immediately was deployed in 2008.
And I spent 11 years overseas on active duty, primarily counterterrorism and foreign policy.
But my last set of orders was with special forces out of Fort Bragg.
And we were, I was attached to a team, a task force that was doing follow-the-money work.
That follow-the-money work led to, we were building target packages.
We're going after money couriers.
And the money couriers, how they were getting the money, where they're getting it from, where it's going to, what they're paying for, terrorist activities or whatever the money's going to try to explain to leadership what's happening.
Well, you can imagine where I'm headed with this.
The primary connection to all of those activities all led back to Minnesota.
I became very upset and very discouraged.
And a lot of my colleagues were very upset as well.
And I was in that task force at the end of the Obama, the second term of Obama administration.
And I was in DC, the transition to the first Trump administration.
And I would love to bore you to tears with stories just about that experience, but we'll keep moving forward.
At the end of the day, I get done with my last set of orders.
I come back home and then in summer of 2017, summer of 2017, I was speaking with my wife and friends.
And I just knew I had to keep talking about what was going on.
And plus I made a promise to some of my colleagues, hey, this is pretty serious.
We've got to figure this out because this is hurting our citizens.
And what you're all being told is such lies, I'll get fast forward to part of my speech,
but keep in the back of your mind wire fraud and mail fraud.
Wire fraud and mail fraud, racketeering.
And Ron's probably going to scold me or help me out later on because he'll do the real legal language about it.
But I filled out a Federal RICO referral against Tim Walts just this last October.
I can't say that it's my Federal RICO referral that tipped the scale,
but were you hearing much about the fraud in, you know, prior to December of last year?
Well, I wrote that referral in October and okay, I'm skipping ahead.
Discipline, self-discipline.
Okay, so let's back up just a hair.
I'm running for office in 2018 because I made a promise to myself and my family.
This can't go on. It has to be exposed.
And so it became a whistleblower in 2016 and 2017.
I couldn't publicly speak until after I was off orders.
I hope you understand that.
Sometimes I get criticized about that, but I had, you know, criticism, whatever,
water off a duck's back.
And in 2018, I became very vocal and even had death threats in 2018
because I was speaking so aggressively about the refugee resettlement programs
and how it was connected to the fraud.
And I know for fact that leadership was told how many non-government organizations
were listed as fake organizations and LLCs,
limited liability companies that were listed as fake LLCs
and the fake children and the fake buildings.
Fast forward now, you can all see because you've most likely,
most of you have seen the Nick Shirley videos.
It is that bad and worse.
I mean, think about this, the sickness of this.
Autism programs.
Intentionally designed legislation
intentionally designed emotional ploys to get you all to agree to pay more taxes and more fees
intentionally exploited your emotions through your care and concern for children
all while knowing that they were going to build a program
that was designed to thieve and grift off of you and exploit your emotions.
Think about how sick that is.
You can apply that same principle to every aspect of the fraud in Minnesota.
In fact, one of the things I hope comes up in the Q&A is the article I wrote.
If you type in 30 year heist on my website in the news tab, 30 year heist.
You'll see several articles that I've written about the 30 year heist and false heroes.
Our Minnesota legislators are the worst of the worst in the nation
that helped destabilize foreign countries.
The reason why the monk community is here is because our legislators destabilized Laos.
Our legislators created the thieving and grifting pipeline of refugees and resettlement,
and illegals and illegals.
And the victims are the people they were using to create that thieving and grifting and pipeline.
Plus us citizens who were paying taxes were the victims.
And they knew that they were doing it.
Fast forward to Somalia, our legislators destabilized Somalia.
Ilhan Omar's family is a warlord.
They are guilty of crimes against humanity.
She lived as a princess.
She wasn't some poor kid from nowhere.
She lived as a princess before she got here.
Our legislators built that pipeline, that thieving and grifting pipeline.
That's a fact.
People can criticize me, people can lie to me, people can lie about me.
But if you go do your own research, you can duplicate my research.
If you read my articles, you don't have to listen to me.
You can duplicate my research on publicly available data.
So that kind of gets you to the point of why I'm running for office
and why I am so adept at and the best candidate to actually get after dismantling this criminal enterprise.
So back to the Rico referral.
When Tim Waltz hired Optum to investigate Medicaid, Medicare fraud,
he committed a crime.
That's my personal opinion.
Ron would argue that I don't have a legal opinion about that yet, maybe.
I'm hoping that federal government does have a legal opinion about it.
Because at the end of the day, racketeering is very simple.
It's coordination.
It's coordinating and premeditated planning.
And the reason why it's connected to mail fraud and wire fraud is because we were all told and sold concepts and ideas through the mail,
through TV, through radio, so on and so forth.
Your taxes are going to do this, your fees are going to do that.
But when you find out that the majority of your taxes and fees have gone to everything other than what you were told,
and on top of it was shipped overseas to kill some of our brothers and sisters on active duty, which is real.
That's not hyperbole, that's fact.
You're talking about organized crime.
When Tim Waltz signed that check to Optum,
and if you don't know what Optum is, Optum is the brainchild or the brains behind
United Health's data patient management and billing and receiving and AP and all that stuff is managed through Optum.
They know about the trillions of dollars of fraud that United Health Care is on the hook for with the federal government.
Because they are the billing and receiving end of the operation.
And for Tim Waltz to hire Optum to be the third party investigator of fraud is racketeering, in my view.
Because now you just paid the drug dealer for the drugs, you exchanged money, plus then you got favors
because United Health and Optum guessed who their primary donees are.
Tim Waltz, Amy Klobuchar, Tina Smith, Steve Simon, Keith Ellison, the whole works.
So it's organized crime. Absolute organized crime.
And then on top of it, they're going to gaslight us into believing that we're the bad guys when we say, whoa, time out, stop.
It's immoral, it's unethical, it's inappropriate, it's unhealthy.
And what I'll leave you with, I don't know where we're at, but I'll leave you with this last bit.
And then we'll get more to the Q&A.
Our economy in Minnesota is deeply entrenched in what I term as a parasitic economy.
And what I mean by that, if you take the literally the visual of a parasite, a leech, it's connected to a host.
There's a large part of our economy in Minnesota that is completely dependent on parasitic activity off of your taxes and fees.
They produce nothing. It's literally that simple.
And the producers in Minnesota, everything from mom and pop shops to farmers to small town barbershops to medical industry, you name it, that's the host.
We're the host. Well, guess what's happening? And they're not talking about in the press.
Leaving.
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving.
Net migration is out, not in.
And so you're left with the majority of a host or a parasitic economy versus a host economy that's being dwindled.
Suck till it's dry.
There is no way for that to continue because in their own self interest, the parasitic economy in its own self interest, it's eventually going to have nothing to be a parasite on.
So there's a lot of things working in our favor. And although that sounds very dismal and very gloomy, we have a lot of good things working in our favor.
The general attitude and mood of people is changing dramatically.
The general mood and attitude of people and understanding what's really happening is changing dramatically.
The old narratives of you never win the cities, you'll never do this, you never knew that is not applicable anymore.
It's not true. And more people are waking up to that you've been lied to and manipulated.
In fact, there's areas of the Twin Cities where there's social media videos walking around going, where is everybody?
There's businesses building after building. It's so pervasive that some of the presses had to admit to the fact that realty companies are starting to do studies in the Twin Cities area to understand why the values of the property have been decimated.
Well, hello, there doesn't take a lot of brain surgery to figure that out.
All right, so that's kind of where things are at. I'm more comfortable with the Q&A anyway.
And so thank you very much for listening. I am Philip Parish and I'm running for governor and I'd love to talk to you more.