By Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 2026
Lindell-Parrish Ticket for Governor
Minnesotans are exhausted by the same tired circus. While DFL machine players, nonprofit grifters, corporate enablers, and street-level operators loot our state through fraud schemes like Feeding Our Future, COVID relief heists, union racketeering, and rigged elections, the so-called opposition fiddles with black-box tech and buries its own scandals in silence. The thieves laugh from the shadows as good people — farmers, veterans, working families, and faithful Catholics like me — get trapped in loops of frustration and chaos.
This isn’t speculation. It’s observable reality, just as I laid out in my recent piece, Observations from the Campaign Trail: The Silent Majority Is Awake and Ready. On the ground across Minnesota — at GOP gatherings, parades, and in everyday conversations — the vast majority of our fellow citizens are decent, hardworking producers who love their families, farms, faith, and constitutional republic. They outnumber the tiny minority of operatives flashing fake smiles, reeking of ill intent, or hiding behind pseudonyms online. Yet the syndicate thrives on the illusion that resistance is futile, convincing too many to stay silent while the grift continues.
The 2020 Criminal Referral: A Case Study in Unanswered Questions
Flash back to May 16, 2020. The Minnesota Republican Party attempted a virtual state convention using online voting software from a Florida vendor. An “unprecedented spike in volume” hit the servers — far beyond normal use. The system destabilized, forcing a postponement. Then-Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan publicly raised the specter of “potentially malicious interference” or hacking. The party filed a criminal referral with the FBI Minneapolis field office, Edina Police Department, and Secretary of State Steve Simon.
Six years later? Crickets. No public findings from the FBI. No arrests announced. No full autopsy shared with delegates or grassroots supporters. Carnahan herself later resigned amid scandals involving toxic workplace allegations, NDAs, and ties to a donor hit with federal sex trafficking charges — but the 2020 referral vanished into the same black hole that swallows so many accountability efforts in this state.
This isn’t ancient history. It directly ties into the 2026 Duluth GOP state convention chaos. Electronic clickers “malfunctioned,” vote totals mysteriously dropped by hundreds between ballots, devices were left open longer than they should have been, and the process dragged on for hours amid confusion. House Speaker Lisa Demuth herself called for paper ballots during the mess. Kendall Qualls eventually secured the endorsement on the 10th ballot, but trust was shattered — so much so that the party chair later indicated the pledge wasn’t binding. Demuth promptly filed for the August primary anyway.
The @Wikitube911 post nailed it: Demuth blasts the DFL for a “culture of fraud, waste, and abuse” after 16 years of their executive control, promising her ticket will fix it with “the best and brightest.” Yet her own party’s compromised processes get a pass. Why?
Direct Questions to the Other Candidates
To Lisa Demuth, Kendall Qualls, and the broader DFL machine (including career operator Amy Klobuchar): Why aren’t you confronting the observable data points?
• Lisa Demuth: You correctly call out DFL fraud culture. But why the silence on your party’s 2020 FBI criminal referral over the convention cyber incident? Who had motive and access to spike the servers? What did the investigation reveal? Why six years of zero transparency to the very delegates you’re asking to trust you now? How does rolling out more clickers in 2026 — after that history — make you any different from the machine?
• Kendall Qualls: Fresh off the Duluth clicker meltdown, why no demand for full disclosure on both the 2020 referral and the latest “anomalies”? If you’re positioned to guard the treasury, start by auditing the processes that pick who gets near it. Or is this just another loop resetting the same unaccountable game?
• Amy Klobuchar and the DFL Syndicate: You’ve presided over decades of the real looting — daycare fraud, nonprofit cash heists, election vulnerabilities, and more. Why zero RICO push, no aggressive asset seizures, no real audits exposing the networks? Because you’re not opposition; you’re protection for the parasite class.
These aren’t abstract hypotheticals. In a constitutional republic, the mechanisms for selecting leaders who wield state power must be transparent, auditable, and secure with paper trails. Black boxes and buried referrals erode trust and hand the syndicate cover to keep operating. As I wrote on the campaign trail: “The DFL machine and its nonprofit-corporate-street-level partners thrive on this illusion… Our job on this Lindell-Parrish ticket is simple — help that [silent] majority shatter the illusion. Expose the corruption. Dismantle the racketeering networks.”
The Lindell-Parrish Vision: No More Circus
Minnesotans deserve better than managed decline. Farmers protecting their land in Goodhue County and beyond, veterans like me who served 21 years in Navy Intelligence chasing terrorists and financiers, working families taxed into exhaustion, and faithful communities rooted in Christ — we’re the producers who build this state. The parasites don’t.
Our ticket stands for raw truth: full transparency on every referral and “malfunction,” paper ballots where they count, audits that actually bite, RICO prosecutions, asset seizures from the looters, and a return to constitutional principles. No donor-class strings. No false equivalences. Just relentless exposure of every compromised node — inside the GOP machine or the DFL syndicate.
The silent majority is awake. From parades where thousands showed respect and hunger for straight talk, to social media where positive engagement drowns out the predictable trolls, the energy is there. As I observed: “The producers far outnumber the parasites. With faith, perseverance, and raw determination, we will take Minnesota back.”
Christ is King. The light exposes every dark network. No more laughter from the thieves while good people suffer the chaos. Time to reclaim our constitutional republic for the 80% who make Minnesota work.
The guilty should be sweating. The decent majority is ready.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 2026
Lindell-Parrish Ticket
Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty: heidi@parrish4mn.com
Phone: (612) 460-1717
https://parrish4mn.com | https://mikelindellgov.com
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