Have you left the Democratic Party yet?

The DOGE found $312 million in small business loans paid during 2020-21 to 5,593 businesses whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger. They all used a Social Security number with an incorrect name.

Then, too, the Social Security Administration, in a 2023 audit report, said it paid $71.8 billion in improper benefits payments from 2015-2022, but that the “vast majority of payments go to living beneficiaries.”

Vast majority is a qualifying term, like when our state Department of Fish and Wildlife says virtually all hatchery salmon are adipose fin-clipped, when in actuality, only 86 percent of chinook are clipped in a five-year average, according to a public records request.

I want to pay virtually all of my property taxes, but I digress.

Then there is Act Blue. They raise money for Democrats.

Cindy Nowe, a grandmother in Maryland, donates “occasionally,” her word. But in 2022, the records show that she made more than 1,000 donations totaling $18,849.77.

She was surprised to hear this because she didn’t.

That was Act Blue channeling money through small donors to hide billionaire donors and make it look grassroots.

Now Democrats, and many Republicans, are in the tough position of trying to justify all the corruption and fraud.

Perhaps you haven’t left the party of grifters and grafters yet, but if you are an honorable person, they left you a long time ago.

Mark A. White

Port Angeles