This morning I warned Minnesotans about the Minnesota Con Game — the web of political insiders, nonprofit grifters, and corporate enablers who treat our state like their personal ATM. While hardworking families, farmers, and small business owners struggle with sky-high taxes, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and rigged systems, these networks loot taxpayer dollars through fraud, sweetheart contracts, and outright theft.
And just yesterday, I got a firsthand look at how some of the smaller players run their own little version of that same con.
A man named Jonathan West, who runs an organization called Rocks and Cows, contacted me with a very direct offer: Pay him $250,000 to buy his page and group, and he would endorse my campaign and support it through the end of the election cycle. When I chose Heidi Wanty — a strong, principled, battle-ready running mate — as my Lieutenant Governor, the mask came off. What started as a supposed “buyout” offer quickly turned into personal insults and inappropriate attacks.
This is the grifter class in action.
They wrap themselves in the legitimate frustration of rural Minnesota — the very people Tim Walz once dismissed as “mostly rocks and cows” — then set up shop as self-appointed gatekeepers. They don’t expose corruption. They don’t fight the machine. They don’t drain any swamps. They simply demand their cut before letting anyone challenge the real criminal networks looting our state.
Rocks and Cows presents itself as a defender of Greater Minnesota values, yet it operates with remarkably little financial transparency for a 527 group that’s been active for years. That lack of openness tells its own story.
Here’s the truth: Minnesota doesn’t need more middlemen selling access to rural voters. We don’t need more slogans for sale. What we need is a full dismantling of the political, nonprofit, and corporate crime syndicates that are bleeding this state dry — from the daycare fraud rings to the election integrity failures, the COVID relief theft, and the ongoing racketeering that props up the DFL machine.
I didn’t enter this race to pay tolls to wannabe kingmakers. I entered it as a retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander with 21 years in Intelligence, a fraud whistleblower, a farmer, a father, a teacher, and a lifelong Minnesotan who still believes in the constitutional republic our founders gave us.
I answer first to my Savior Jesus Christ and then to the people of Minnesota — not to any political middleman with his hand out.
The con stops here. Real leadership doesn’t come with a price tag. Together we will expose these networks, restore integrity, and rebuild a Minnesota where honest work is rewarded, families can thrive, and no one has to pay protection money just to stand up for what’s right.
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
Phillip C. Parrish
1 (612) 460-1717
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor
Heidi Wanty