Imagine you saw a bank robbery and you heroically tackled the guy with the gun before he could steal all the money.  And then imagine the police put YOU and not the robber in jail!

That’s pretty much what the Dems in Sacramento want to do to stop Nick Shirley from exposing welfare fraud.

Their proposed new law treats the whistleblowers as the villains.

After Nick Shirley, the 23-year-old independent journalist, helped blow open Minnesota’s child care fraud case, which has resulted in over 100 indictments, he went to California to post videos exposing Medicaid and other fraud.

Rather than follow up on his findings, the state’s welfare industrial complex concocted a bill dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.” It shields government-funded nonprofits and groups from investigative journalism that aims to expose fraud, making it a crime to post video evidence of fraud or images of “immigration support” workers on camera. It also weakens the state’s shield law protecting journalists.

This week the bill overwhelmingly passed both houses of the Democratic legislature and is now on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk awaiting his signature. We hope he recognizes that signing this abomination will do his nascent presidential campaign no favor to say nothing of freedom of speech and freedom of the press

State law already protects those who face threats, harassment, or violence related to their work, so the bill clearly has the intent to protect the fraud foxes who are raiding taxpayer hen houses.

Its author is none other than Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, the wife of Rob Bonta, the state’s Democratic attorney general. Bonta was recently blasted by Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, for failing to vigorously prosecute fraud in welfare programs.

Sounds like the Bonta family ❤️ fraud. Apparently, so do most California Dems.

Btw, Nick Shirley will be awarded the first UP Evans and Novak award for excellence in journalism at our October gala.  Here is his reaction to the CA law.  Click the image below to watch!