WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.820 So, Phil Parrish, running for Minnesota Governor, is a lifelong Minnesotan who understands the values and challenges facing the state. 00:08.360 --> 00:12.740 A retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander with over 21 years of service. 00:13.140 --> 00:17.140 He's a seasoned expert in counterterrorism and foreign policy. 00:17.720 --> 00:25.000 Philip was also one of the first whistleblowers to raise concern about the daycare fraud scandal back in 2016. 00:25.000 --> 00:34.460 A little bit ago, demonstrating his commitment to truth and accountability for serving our country to working as an educator, administrator, farmer. 00:34.800 --> 00:37.140 Philip has dedicated his life to serving others. 00:37.580 --> 00:42.720 And now he's running for governor to put Minnesotans first and lead with integrity, strength and transparency. 00:43.600 --> 00:45.360 I welcome Philip Parrish. 00:56.970 --> 00:59.370 You'll have to click the live part there. 00:59.450 --> 01:01.490 I'll let you figure it out. Whatever it works, it works. 01:02.310 --> 01:05.850 If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it's okay. 01:06.730 --> 01:09.690 All right, so good evening and thank you for having me. 01:10.230 --> 01:13.870 And yes, Ron and I have gotten to know each other and I have to tell a fun story. 01:15.330 --> 01:23.950 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... 01:23.950 --> 01:25.750 They've all figured out that I'm running for governor. 01:27.270 --> 01:30.230 They were quizzing me. What are you going to think about this? What do you think about that? 01:30.470 --> 01:36.330 And Ron's name came up and one of my committee members said, I know Ron. I recommend him highly. 01:38.070 --> 01:44.590 So it's been an interesting evolution how I've gotten to know Ron and some of my committee members better as well. 01:44.710 --> 01:51.370 Okay, so let's get back to the starting point and we'll have some more fun conversations to share shortly. 01:51.370 --> 02:07.810 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. 02:08.630 --> 02:11.550 So I was born here in Minnesota, Blue Earth, Minnesota. 02:12.470 --> 02:15.130 I graduated from high school in West Concord, Minnesota. 02:15.850 --> 02:17.330 I went to college in Mankato. 02:17.670 --> 02:18.650 I became a teacher. 02:18.650 --> 02:25.890 I taught music, K-12 music for all of all things, 13 years of teaching and became a principal. 02:26.890 --> 02:32.290 And my first principal job was in Austin, Minnesota at Gerard treatment programs. 02:32.830 --> 02:42.150 And I kind of fell into a niche of working with a lot of specialty programs and it was a wonderful experience. 02:42.150 --> 02:53.050 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. 02:53.830 --> 03:06.470 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. 03:06.470 --> 03:16.310 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. 03:16.870 --> 03:18.270 I love that job. 03:19.270 --> 03:27.370 In the midst of it, I had joined the Navy and after 9-11, my military career kind of started to take off. 03:27.850 --> 03:30.510 So I was deployed fairly quickly after 9-11. 03:30.510 --> 03:36.410 I bounced back and forth from my principal job to active duty for a few years. 03:37.030 --> 03:46.850 And then I accepted a direct commission and went from enlisted ranks to an officer ranks and immediately was deployed in 2008. 03:47.410 --> 03:54.630 And I spent 11 years overseas on active duty, primarily counterterrorism and foreign policy. 03:55.130 --> 03:59.410 But my last set of orders was with special forces out of Fort Bragg. 03:59.410 --> 04:05.530 And we were, I was attached to a team, a task force that was doing follow-the-money work. 04:05.910 --> 04:10.670 That follow-the-money work led to, we were building target packages. 04:10.910 --> 04:12.510 We're going after money couriers. 04:12.950 --> 04:24.770 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. 04:25.350 --> 04:28.230 Well, you can imagine where I'm headed with this. 04:28.230 --> 04:33.170 The primary connection to all of those activities all led back to Minnesota. 04:34.010 --> 04:37.810 I became very upset and very discouraged. 04:38.290 --> 04:40.790 And a lot of my colleagues were very upset as well. 04:40.950 --> 04:47.610 And I was in that task force at the end of the Obama, the second term of Obama administration. 04:48.390 --> 04:52.430 And I was in DC, the transition to the first Trump administration. 04:53.790 --> 05:00.730 And I would love to bore you to tears with stories just about that experience, but we'll keep moving forward. 05:01.590 --> 05:05.230 At the end of the day, I get done with my last set of orders. 05:05.410 --> 05:14.570 I come back home and then in summer of 2017, summer of 2017, I was speaking with my wife and friends. 05:14.850 --> 05:17.730 And I just knew I had to keep talking about what was going on. 05:17.910 --> 05:21.850 And plus I made a promise to some of my colleagues, hey, this is pretty serious. 05:22.930 --> 05:26.570 We've got to figure this out because this is hurting our citizens. 05:27.450 --> 05:33.730 And what you're all being told is such lies, I'll get fast forward to part of my speech, 05:34.070 --> 05:38.490 but keep in the back of your mind wire fraud and mail fraud. 05:39.550 --> 05:42.210 Wire fraud and mail fraud, racketeering. 05:42.990 --> 05:49.470 And Ron's probably going to scold me or help me out later on because he'll do the real legal language about it. 05:49.470 --> 05:55.850 But I filled out a Federal RICO referral against Tim Walts just this last October. 05:56.610 --> 06:00.430 I can't say that it's my Federal RICO referral that tipped the scale, 06:00.770 --> 06:07.630 but were you hearing much about the fraud in, you know, prior to December of last year? 06:08.250 --> 06:12.050 Well, I wrote that referral in October and okay, I'm skipping ahead. 06:13.530 --> 06:14.850 Discipline, self-discipline. 06:14.850 --> 06:19.670 Okay, so let's back up just a hair. 06:20.570 --> 06:25.790 I'm running for office in 2018 because I made a promise to myself and my family. 06:26.470 --> 06:29.830 This can't go on. It has to be exposed. 06:30.130 --> 06:34.090 And so it became a whistleblower in 2016 and 2017. 06:34.370 --> 06:38.050 I couldn't publicly speak until after I was off orders. 06:38.790 --> 06:39.870 I hope you understand that. 06:39.870 --> 06:44.510 Sometimes I get criticized about that, but I had, you know, criticism, whatever, 06:44.930 --> 06:46.390 water off a duck's back. 06:47.270 --> 06:52.650 And in 2018, I became very vocal and even had death threats in 2018 06:52.650 --> 06:58.370 because I was speaking so aggressively about the refugee resettlement programs 06:58.370 --> 06:59.850 and how it was connected to the fraud. 07:00.290 --> 07:06.650 And I know for fact that leadership was told how many non-government organizations 07:06.650 --> 07:10.820 were listed as fake organizations and LLCs, 07:11.390 --> 07:14.490 limited liability companies that were listed as fake LLCs 07:14.490 --> 07:17.030 and the fake children and the fake buildings. 07:17.390 --> 07:20.250 Fast forward now, you can all see because you've most likely, 07:20.430 --> 07:22.130 most of you have seen the Nick Shirley videos. 07:23.310 --> 07:24.910 It is that bad and worse. 07:26.070 --> 07:28.370 I mean, think about this, the sickness of this. 07:29.370 --> 07:30.430 Autism programs. 07:33.050 --> 07:34.990 Intentionally designed legislation 07:36.770 --> 07:43.430 intentionally designed emotional ploys to get you all to agree to pay more taxes and more fees 07:44.650 --> 07:49.230 intentionally exploited your emotions through your care and concern for children 07:50.430 --> 07:55.130 all while knowing that they were going to build a program 07:55.130 --> 07:59.610 that was designed to thieve and grift off of you and exploit your emotions. 07:59.830 --> 08:01.670 Think about how sick that is. 08:02.450 --> 08:06.890 You can apply that same principle to every aspect of the fraud in Minnesota. 08:07.430 --> 08:12.610 In fact, one of the things I hope comes up in the Q&A is the article I wrote. 08:12.830 --> 08:18.230 If you type in 30 year heist on my website in the news tab, 30 year heist. 08:19.070 --> 08:24.530 You'll see several articles that I've written about the 30 year heist and false heroes. 08:25.230 --> 08:28.990 Our Minnesota legislators are the worst of the worst in the nation 08:28.990 --> 08:31.550 that helped destabilize foreign countries. 08:33.050 --> 08:38.270 The reason why the monk community is here is because our legislators destabilized Laos. 08:39.570 --> 08:44.590 Our legislators created the thieving and grifting pipeline of refugees and resettlement, 08:45.050 --> 08:46.710 and illegals and illegals. 08:47.810 --> 08:54.650 And the victims are the people they were using to create that thieving and grifting and pipeline. 08:54.650 --> 08:57.990 Plus us citizens who were paying taxes were the victims. 08:59.090 --> 09:00.570 And they knew that they were doing it. 09:01.050 --> 09:06.170 Fast forward to Somalia, our legislators destabilized Somalia. 09:07.230 --> 09:09.450 Ilhan Omar's family is a warlord. 09:09.970 --> 09:12.170 They are guilty of crimes against humanity. 09:13.130 --> 09:14.470 She lived as a princess. 09:14.890 --> 09:16.510 She wasn't some poor kid from nowhere. 09:16.970 --> 09:19.230 She lived as a princess before she got here. 09:20.610 --> 09:24.890 Our legislators built that pipeline, that thieving and grifting pipeline. 09:25.770 --> 09:26.590 That's a fact. 09:27.110 --> 09:30.970 People can criticize me, people can lie to me, people can lie about me. 09:31.170 --> 09:34.790 But if you go do your own research, you can duplicate my research. 09:35.150 --> 09:37.450 If you read my articles, you don't have to listen to me. 09:37.890 --> 09:41.690 You can duplicate my research on publicly available data. 09:43.430 --> 09:47.650 So that kind of gets you to the point of why I'm running for office 09:47.650 --> 09:54.590 and why I am so adept at and the best candidate to actually get after dismantling this criminal enterprise. 09:55.190 --> 09:57.150 So back to the Rico referral. 09:57.730 --> 10:04.430 When Tim Waltz hired Optum to investigate Medicaid, Medicare fraud, 10:05.910 --> 10:07.730 he committed a crime. 10:08.430 --> 10:10.190 That's my personal opinion. 10:10.810 --> 10:13.870 Ron would argue that I don't have a legal opinion about that yet, maybe. 10:14.470 --> 10:17.670 I'm hoping that federal government does have a legal opinion about it. 10:17.690 --> 10:21.650 Because at the end of the day, racketeering is very simple. 10:22.370 --> 10:22.990 It's coordination. 10:23.970 --> 10:26.250 It's coordinating and premeditated planning. 10:27.250 --> 10:34.970 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, 10:35.170 --> 10:37.710 through TV, through radio, so on and so forth. 10:37.810 --> 10:40.570 Your taxes are going to do this, your fees are going to do that. 10:40.570 --> 10:48.110 But when you find out that the majority of your taxes and fees have gone to everything other than what you were told, 10:48.630 --> 10:55.270 and on top of it was shipped overseas to kill some of our brothers and sisters on active duty, which is real. 10:55.410 --> 10:56.870 That's not hyperbole, that's fact. 10:59.190 --> 11:01.610 You're talking about organized crime. 11:02.490 --> 11:05.130 When Tim Waltz signed that check to Optum, 11:05.690 --> 11:10.430 and if you don't know what Optum is, Optum is the brainchild or the brains behind 11:10.430 --> 11:17.790 United Health's data patient management and billing and receiving and AP and all that stuff is managed through Optum. 11:18.770 --> 11:25.010 They know about the trillions of dollars of fraud that United Health Care is on the hook for with the federal government. 11:25.670 --> 11:30.010 Because they are the billing and receiving end of the operation. 11:31.330 --> 11:38.610 And for Tim Waltz to hire Optum to be the third party investigator of fraud is racketeering, in my view. 11:39.550 --> 11:47.030 Because now you just paid the drug dealer for the drugs, you exchanged money, plus then you got favors 11:47.030 --> 11:53.310 because United Health and Optum guessed who their primary donees are. 11:54.090 --> 11:58.410 Tim Waltz, Amy Klobuchar, Tina Smith, Steve Simon, Keith Ellison, the whole works. 12:00.310 --> 12:06.050 So it's organized crime. Absolute organized crime. 12:07.090 --> 12:14.330 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. 12:16.550 --> 12:20.610 It's immoral, it's unethical, it's inappropriate, it's unhealthy. 12:21.430 --> 12:25.650 And what I'll leave you with, I don't know where we're at, but I'll leave you with this last bit. 12:25.650 --> 12:28.070 And then we'll get more to the Q&A. 12:29.750 --> 12:38.070 Our economy in Minnesota is deeply entrenched in what I term as a parasitic economy. 12:38.650 --> 12:47.290 And what I mean by that, if you take the literally the visual of a parasite, a leech, it's connected to a host. 12:48.290 --> 12:57.670 There's a large part of our economy in Minnesota that is completely dependent on parasitic activity off of your taxes and fees. 12:58.650 --> 13:02.690 They produce nothing. It's literally that simple. 13:02.690 --> 13:18.870 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. 13:19.570 --> 13:23.970 We're the host. Well, guess what's happening? And they're not talking about in the press. 13:25.030 --> 13:25.770 Leaving. 13:27.470 --> 13:29.890 Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving. 13:30.730 --> 13:34.350 Net migration is out, not in. 13:35.430 --> 13:44.870 And so you're left with the majority of a host or a parasitic economy versus a host economy that's being dwindled. 13:45.690 --> 13:46.790 Suck till it's dry. 13:48.290 --> 13:59.450 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. 14:00.770 --> 14:10.270 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. 14:10.790 --> 14:14.450 The general attitude and mood of people is changing dramatically. 14:15.350 --> 14:20.530 The general mood and attitude of people and understanding what's really happening is changing dramatically. 14:21.190 --> 14:27.430 The old narratives of you never win the cities, you'll never do this, you never knew that is not applicable anymore. 14:27.690 --> 14:31.650 It's not true. And more people are waking up to that you've been lied to and manipulated. 14:32.490 --> 14:39.030 In fact, there's areas of the Twin Cities where there's social media videos walking around going, where is everybody? 14:40.890 --> 14:56.810 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. 14:57.390 --> 15:01.350 Well, hello, there doesn't take a lot of brain surgery to figure that out. 15:01.350 --> 15:07.090 All right, so that's kind of where things are at. I'm more comfortable with the Q&A anyway. 15:07.830 --> 15:13.850 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.