Washington State Democrat Senator Lisa Wellman filed legislation designed to hide the possibility of fraud at daycares. She has a huge Somali constituency. She’s also under scrutiny for other legislation which protects sex offenders. Independent journalists smell a rat and are having to navigate convoluted state regulations just to file FOIA requests.

BREAKING: In response to the massive daycare fraud being exposed by independent journalists using state websites, WA State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation to hide information about daycares and their operators from the public pic.twitter.com/YBwyiiXaVJ

— Ari Hoffman ? (@thehoffather) December 31, 2025

Her 41st District of Bellevue has one of the largest Somali populations in the state

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Sponsored bill 12/22/25 below @DOGE

Chair of the Early Learning & K12 Education Committee and the Educational Opportunity Gap and Oversight Committee.

This is why… pic.twitter.com/PuQbpyExVA

— Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) December 31, 2025

One of the reasons we’ve not yet seen a massive dump of WA fraud data is because of a convoluted FOIA procedural maze the state constructed over the better part of a decade, anticipating our current timelinehttps://t.co/bqhD6B7wtG

— 0xPuff (@0xPuff) December 31, 2025

Hiding fraud and protecting sex offenders. Citizen journalists are on the case:

Meet Lisa Wellman, Noel Frame, T’wina Nobles, and Claire Wilson.

These 4 Democrat Washington State Senators are sponsoring a Bill that REDUCES the penalties for child s*x offenders caught in sting operations.

Democrats want to protect child predators https://t.co/PbIJ031lvk pic.twitter.com/2Q5YDsmWWU

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 26, 2025

Just a reminder, Wellman won nearly 70% of the vote in 2024. And her accomplice in crime Tana Senn now runs DCYF, who is charge of “compliance” with these daycares. pic.twitter.com/jzcfWVBKHB

— Steve Gordon (@stevemgordon67) December 31, 2025

We are here. pic.twitter.com/fbcW1Pyw3C

— Chris Roethel (@chrisroethel) December 31, 2025

I decided to look at other bills Washington state Senator Lisa Wellman has sponsored. Wellman is the primary sponsor of SB 5926 which excludes certain info on childcare providers from public disclosure.

Guess what?

She also sponsored SB 5920, which would allow schools to charge for filling “burdensome” public records requests. (There are exceptions, including for requests from parents, but I’m still concerned.)

It appears Wellman doesn’t like government transparency and accountability to the people.

Furthermore, Wellman is the primary sponsor of SB 5312, which appears to be limiting how long sex offenders caught in sting operations have to register for.

Senator Wellman chairs the Washington Senate’s Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee. @rebeccajfaust

The following link is Senator Wellman’s financial statement. She appears to have assets of around $2 Million, primarily from real estate but nothing like that of people like Ilhan Omar in Minnesota. Others have taken the “torch” to find out what’s really going on in the State of Washington after this plan to cover rather than expose possible fraud.

One independent journalist took to YouTube to express his findings:

I’m a former DSHS state investigator/licensor who stopped similar fraud like this in the late 90s. I stopped by to visit these managers who were not there this morning in Vancouver. I left this letter, what I did in the late 90s and my expectation that they do unannounced monitor visits right now and I want copies of their case narratives after the visits. They are called FamLink.

My letter:

:December 30, 2025

Maggie O’Conner, Child Care Licensing Area Administrator
360-628-3462
Emilie Jorgenson, Child Care Licensing Supervisor
360-524-1141
501 SE Columbia Shores Blvd., Ste. 350
Vancouver, WA 98661

Dear Maggie and Emilie,

As a former child care licensor/investigator in the Vancouver office this, in part, is a public records request for a list of Somali child care centers in the southwest region covered by you. With the uncovering of fraud in Minnesota and with the close ties both Washington State and Oregon have with Minnesota, it’s proper and germane for your office to do unannounced monitor visits on this population.

In the late 1990s a similar circumstance occurred in the Russian speaking refugee population in Clark County. I had the most on my caseload. I became curious as it did not appear that there was a need in that community for daycare services. Many of them had so many children already they could sometimes have only one or two day care children. Trying to understand why that group kept growing, and asking our translator to help me understand, she told me a story that didn’t really make sense. Then I figured it out. If they only had one daycare child they could feed all their children on the Food Program. Thus, I made massive monitoring visits on that population, and found no daycare children. The plot discovered, all the ones doing that, they gave up their licenses (we didn’t have to revoke) except for one, we then did revoked.

I’ve attached my resume, for you to read my history. Ross Hunter knows me well. I’ve been an expert witness in civil lawsuits and administrative hearings since 2007. I also, write a blog, Truth in the Pacific Northwest, and intend to write about this matter.

I imagine the Somali community doing daycare is not huge, similar to the Russian speaking community back in the late 1990s. I had the most on my caseload so probably 10-to 15, so was easy to make those unannounced monitor visits as there were no children, and many not even home. Thus, please have those monitor visits completed by January 5, 2026 and make copies of your FamLink narratives as part of my public records request. I’m very close, thus, I can easily swing by and pick those up.

Also, please enclose a child care licensor application. If you’re in need of professional experience, I might be able to help the State of Washington with that duty.

Thank you,

Margo Logan, MSW in Administration
Expert Witness/investigator/Analyst for civil lawsuits and administrative hearings
Former 13 year DSHS child daycare licensing investigator social worker III @MargoLogan

The repercussions of the Somali fraud case are being felt across the nation, particularly in blue states like Washington. But if we learned anything from Nick Shirley’s investigation, it’s that people are becoming aware of their tax dollars being stolen, whether by Somali fraudsters or Democrats. And independent journalists are working hard to expose the fraud.

Washington State Democrat Senator Lisa Wellman pre-filed her legislation right after the Somali Fraud case was revealed. The optics is bad and makes her seem complicit with fraudsters. Apparently, Democrats are good at trying to hide things from the public.

“If a program is clean, transparency protects it. If it isn’t, secrecy protects the problem.” (Army veteran Rick Nixon) @Rick_1268

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