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MDE EXCLUSIVE: MATT ENTENZA CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE ABOUT PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
By Michael B. Brodkorb | July 13, 2006
Matt Entenza has publically claimed he hired someone to help him "get a better understanding of how some aspects" of Hatch's office worked and not to investigate Mike Hatch:
"He [Matt Entenza] said he asked Gragert to file the Data Practices request 'so I could get a better understanding of how some of the aspects of the office [Attorney General's office ] worked.'" Source: Star Tribune, July 12, 2006
Why then was VJ Bustos, who was working for the firm Entenza hired, requesting public information from Dakota County about a parking ticket Mike Hatch received in 2003?
"Hatch said in an interview that he determined that [VJ] Bustos had been working for Gragert Research, a Chicago firm usually aligned with Democratic candidates that does opposition research on Republicans. He has declined to explain how he made the link.
Entenza, of St. Paul, acknowledged Tuesday that he retained the Gragert firm to write the letter." Source: Star Tribune, July 12, 2006
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The link above is to public documents requested by Minnesota Democrats Exposed which prove that VJ Bustos was investigating Mike Hatch.
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July 13th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
How on earth is Matt Entenza going to explain this?
He told the people of Minnesota 24 hours ago that he only did research on some items within the Attorney General’s office and that he did so only to learn a little more about the office itself.
What could he possibly learn about the Attorney General’s office by looking into a parking ticket that Mike Hatch got while leaving his vehicle in a Dakota County Park? And what was he suspicious of?
I’m afraid Mr. Entenza might be finished.
July 13th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Hatch cannot be happy about this.
Why would Entenza send some goon to seek out information on a single, solitary parking ticket?
Was this Dakota County search by Entenza’s PI firm part of what Entenza plans to release to the press?
This just smells bad. There has to be more to it.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
People, this is only part 1 of the story.
Part 2 was published at
http://ruthlessmagic.blogspot.com
Notice, that this post was from 2 days ago.
Interesting.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Wow, a liberal conducting opposition research on another liberal’s parking ticket record.
According to the libs who frequent this blog, I thought conducting oppo research on parking tickets was only the purview of right-wing bloggers like MDE.
Apparently not.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
I bet that Bill McGuire and the other United Health Group Executives and attorneys are beside themselves right now.
This company is in the legal and public relations fight of its life and because Entenza can’t find it within himself to tell the truth, every passing day is worse and worse.
We have a guy who is supposed to be running for a job established to protect people. Whether it is consumers or kids and whether it is against bad business or violent thugs. Entenza simply doesn’t have the integrity to hold this office.
And everytime Entenza’s ethics are splashed throughout the paper, so are the “Enron-style” United Health Group issues. Side-by-side, hand-in-hand. It is almost as though they have become the same scandal.
Maybe it is time for Lois to tell her hubby to pack it in for the sake of their fortune and that of the company.
July 13th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
I just don’t understand why any of this is relevent. After all, Matt Entenza is too busy to worry about what his hired dirt digger is doing because he’s out uniting people. And if this over-zealous PI was caught going beyond the scope of the hundred bucks or so he paid him, it’s obviously because he hired Mark Kennedy from Arthur Anderson to do his books. Worse, it’s probably all W’s and Cheney’s fault, or at least Haliburton’s fault. You know, DFL’ers can’t be held responsible for any of their unethical or illegal activities. They’re too busy.
July 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
[...] I have been informed by credible sources that Matt Entenza will be issuing a statement to the media in response to this post in the next few minutes. [...]
July 13th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Remember what Dems do:
Clarence Thomas: They went to see what video tapes he checked out.
John Roberts. The NYT tried to get the adoption records of his kids.
July 13th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Let me say this in advance of Entenza putting out yet another statement.
Hey Asshole, I don’t believe you.
You have put out statement after statement and every one of them has been a lie.
You could put out a statement at 6:00pm tonight saying it is 6:00pm and I wouldn’t buy it. You could issue a one line statement that just says your name is Matt Entenza and I’d have to have it fact checked before I believed it.
How does the saying go? “oh the tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
July 13th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
“He says he takes full responsibility of the investigation but says the the private research company was not authorized to research Hatch’s personal parking tickets” –Polinaut
There you go! “I didn’t hire them to do that…”
Democrats just can’t take responsibility for their actions. Amazing.
July 13th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
“This is not the information that I requested. However, I take full responsibility for the firm’s actions and I apologize to Attorney General Hatch.”
Oh, I’m sorry. He CLAIMS to take responsibility. As we all know, saying you take responsibility doesn’t mean you really are. That’s especially true when you preface your acceptance of responsibility with this:
“I have just learned that the firm made a much larger series of public document requests than I requested, including the recently released Dakota County parking ticket file.”
Which is Entenza-speak for this:
“I’m sorry, I know I hired these guys to dig up dirt. But now that they did that and I got busted, I didn’t really think they’d FIND anything and that I’d get caught. So I take responsibility for being stupid enough to get caught.”