THE BIGGEST MDE EXCLUSIVE: ENTENZA HIRES PRIVATE EYE TO INVESTIGATE HATCH
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MDE has learned from excellent St. Paul sources a bombshell that reveals an enormous rift among two of the DFL's top officeholders.
Within the past couple of months, House Minority Leader Matt Entenza hired a private investigative firm from Chicago to look into a fellow politician's background ...
That politician -- Mike Hatch.
Entenza hired the private eye to dredge up enough information to convince Hatch that he should stay out of the Governor's race and run for another term as Attorney General -- leaving the Governor's race open for Entenza.
Entenza certainly has the funds to hire a private investigator -- his $600,000 contribution to DFL groups during the 2004 cycle was just a drop in the bucket for he and wife Lois Quam.
Unfortunately for Entenza, Hatch's people caught onto Entenza's plan. They then laid a trap for Entenza -- they called him and posed as the private investigative firm and asked where he wanted them to fax the information they had found.
When Entenza gave them a fax number, they revealed themselves and let Entenza know that Hatch was onto his scheme.
Needless to say, Hatch was not happy with Entenza. Sources saw the two of them together twice since the rift was revealed -- once, seemingly friendly at the Lexington, and another time at a DFL event, where Hatch was giving Entenza a once-over off to the side.
Hatch apparently told Entenza that he could run for Attorney General, but that Hatch will be supporting Lori Swanson. Word is that Hatch is already helping raise money for Swanon's AG bid.
This episode raises a number of interesting questions. What did Entenza's private eye discover? Will Hatch and Entenza be able to repair the rift in case they are running for Governor and AG together? Did Hatch use "double expletives" to describe Entenza when he found out about this?
This Hatch v. Entenza fight is certain to rock the DFL to its rotten core.
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MDE has learned from excellent St. Paul sources a bombshell that reveals an enormous rift among two of the DFL's top officeholders.
Within the past couple of months, House Minority Leader Matt Entenza hired a private investigative firm from Chicago to look into a fellow politician's background ...
That politician -- Mike Hatch.
Entenza hired the private eye to dredge up enough information to convince Hatch that he should stay out of the Governor's race and run for another term as Attorney General -- leaving the Governor's race open for Entenza.
Entenza certainly has the funds to hire a private investigator -- his $600,000 contribution to DFL groups during the 2004 cycle was just a drop in the bucket for he and wife Lois Quam.
Unfortunately for Entenza, Hatch's people caught onto Entenza's plan. They then laid a trap for Entenza -- they called him and posed as the private investigative firm and asked where he wanted them to fax the information they had found.
When Entenza gave them a fax number, they revealed themselves and let Entenza know that Hatch was onto his scheme.
Needless to say, Hatch was not happy with Entenza. Sources saw the two of them together twice since the rift was revealed -- once, seemingly friendly at the Lexington, and another time at a DFL event, where Hatch was giving Entenza a once-over off to the side.
Hatch apparently told Entenza that he could run for Attorney General, but that Hatch will be supporting Lori Swanson. Word is that Hatch is already helping raise money for Swanon's AG bid.
This episode raises a number of interesting questions. What did Entenza's private eye discover? Will Hatch and Entenza be able to repair the rift in case they are running for Governor and AG together? Did Hatch use "double expletives" to describe Entenza when he found out about this?
This Hatch v. Entenza fight is certain to rock the DFL to its rotten core.
15 Comments:
I think that we need to create a boxing match similar to Celebrity Boxing! I want to see these two losers duke it out in the ring!
Wow. I tip my hat to you on this one MDE.
I don't know who'd fight more dirty, Entenza or Hatch. Any thoughts?
I want MDE to put his reputation on the line for this. If this turns out to be yet another false rumor attempting to smear DFLers, I think he should give up his blog. This is a huge accusation to make.
I've already said that if this allegation is true, I'll vote for Tim Pawlenty for the rest of my life.
Standing behind your statements will, at least for me, give you some credibility.
How about it?
I just called Mr. Entenza's office. It's an old rumor, months old in fact.
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There's truth to every rumor.
You need to keep digging.
As a young Bob Woodward was once told: "just follow the money."
Hatch apparently told Entenza that he could run for Attorney General, but that Hatch will be supporting Lori Swanson. Word is that Hatch is already helping raise money for Swanon's AG bid.
Lori Swanson dosen't even have a campaign comittee yet.
Where are you getting your information?
Did you not read the beginning?! It says something to the effect of "excellent St. Paul soures."
If Entenza is dirty enough to do this, he's obviously dirty enough to tell his staff to lie about it. Quit accepting everything this man says as fact and open your eyes to the harsh reality of DFL inter-party politics.
Keep digging. The fact that S Towes has tried to out you - as the person who also runs the Senate District 63 blog, suggests that you have this one correct.
And by the way, I think you ought to have the balls to be public about who you are.
SD63 and MDE are not one and the same. Look at the two blogs, do you see any similarity in the writein style of posts? Also, how would you explain my virtual non-existent posting on SD63 during July when I was enjoying life, while MDE was still digging and exposing?
Where did this "S Towes" make this accusation?
Oh Plueeeze..when someone stands behind a curtain and throws mud, everyone gets dirty....Only a wuss is afraid to stand in the sunshine and tell his storys..
SD 63, it sounds like Towle posted your email to him.
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