Minnesota’s left-wing lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, recently appeared dressed in Islamic garb on a Somali-language YouTube channel outside Minneapolis to tell Somali immigrants she has “your back.”
Flanagan was chosen by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in 2018. She is not Muslim; She is instead a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) Native Americans and won election as Walz’s running mate in two elections.
With President Donald Trump’s administration focused on massive fraud and theft of welfare funding by Somali immigrants in the Gopher State, Flanagan apparently wanted to reassure Somali immigrants that she and Walls were working for them.
Wearing an Islamic dress that covered her body from her hair down, Flanagan said, “Peace be upon you. My name is Peggy Flanagan. I am the lieutenant governor of the state of Minnesota, and I am truly honored and humbled to be here with all of you today.” “I’m incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of Minnesota.”
“I think about my friendship with Nimco. We’ve been friends for almost 25 years, and when I think about being a part of Minnesota and growing up here, the Somali community has always been a part of the Minnesota that I live in,” said Flanagan, 46, making a false claim that Somalis did not start coming to Minnesota until the 1990s. Flanagan was already in her teens when it started.
Flanagan continued:
So I just want to encourage the community to know that we are with you, we support you. I’m here to shop today and I encourage other people to come out and support our Somali business and support our immigrant neighbors and I know things are scary right now and I just know there are more people looking out for you and more people here to support you than you know.
She concluded her speech by saying: “I will continue to stand with the Somali community, to be with you, and do everything in my power to return the friendship and community that the Somali community has shown me.”
The lieutenant was standing next to a controversial person in the video. To her right stood Ali Ghashan, also known as Yusuf Ali. He is the founder of Volunteers for Somalia, a non-profit organization involved in the Feed Our Future criminal case. Once Feed Our Future — a charity that was prosecuted for $250 million in fraud — closed down, Ali Jashan abruptly ended his charity, which was supposedly geared toward feeding Somali immigrant children in need.
Flanagan is controversial herself. Even on her resume, she admitted that she only had a 1.75 GPA in high school. She claimed she finally blossomed as a college student when she earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in child psychology and American Indian studies with a major in Ojibwe history.
Flanagan has also been vocal about federal immigration officials being expelled from Minnesota.
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