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Miss Reyrich asked about the retaliation people experience when trying to expose fraud and corruption in Minnesota. Speaker 1 said retaliation has been ongoing for some time. They cited Faith Bernstein’s 2019 Newsweek report: Bernstein was heavily investigated and moved to a different state agency, retaliated against in every kind of way you can think. Recently, retaliation has escalated to threats of losing your job and losing your home, and to tracking your children, with efforts to ensure you can't get a job anywhere in state government. For Minnesota this means you can’t get a job anywhere Democrats control, including Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Duluth, Rochester.
Miss Reyrich then asked if this will prevent people from continuing to speak out. Speaker 1 said they hope that with light on it and telling people that this is the retaliation, if something like that does come to fruition right now, it’s threats, although some people have been fired, that they have a little bit more ability to speak up and speak to them and that they can cover them in that way. But it’s been really, really bad, and it’s been bad for quite some time.