She wants to continue fighting for Minnesota.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In February 2025, Lisa Demuth made history as the first Black lawmaker and first Republican woman to serve as Speaker of the House. Now she's running for Governor of Minnesota, looking to unseat Tim Walz. She shares her vision with Michele.
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Minnesota should be the last place that criminals want to do any type of criminal activity whatsoever. |
| 0:07.0 | That is not the case. |
| 0:09.0 | Fraud has gone on for too long. |
| 0:11.0 | It has exploded under Governor Walls. |
| 0:14.0 | And yet now because of the help from the federal government, as you're seeing, the ones that are actually prosecuting the fraud and really |
| 0:21.1 | shining a light on it, that's why we're seeing national attention and getting this changed |
| 0:26.2 | here in the state. But clearly, there is a large number of employees that have come out on |
| 0:31.1 | X and said that they've tried to make changes or report things and they were retaliated against. |
| 0:37.2 | That is not right in any job, let alone in the state government. |
| 0:41.2 | That itself needs to be investigated further. |
| 0:44.9 | In this last legislative session, though, we did add whistleblower protections to kind |
| 0:50.3 | of expand what was already happening to help uncover the fraud and end it. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to another brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Quick thing. Do you see that |
| 1:07.3 | little subscribe button wherever you're listening or watching? Just click it, please. That helps us grow. And we want to be a podcast that you enjoy three times a week every |
| 1:17.4 | single week. So just hit subscribe. We really appreciate it. I've been interviewing all of the |
| 1:22.1 | Republican gubernatorial candidates in Minnesota. It's clear by the breadth and depth of this group of people, |
| 1:30.4 | I think we're up to nine or ten now, that want to run for governor against Tim Walls. |
| 1:35.0 | They see a path. They see an administration under Tim Walls that has not served Minnesota well, |
| 1:41.7 | and they want to be the ones to break through and finally get |
| 1:45.3 | a Republican back in the governor's mansion. |
| 1:47.7 | Will it happen? |
| 1:48.3 | We're going to find out. |
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