Matt Entenza
BREAKING NEWS: COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST ENTENZA THINK TANK; GOP LEGISLATOR CLAIMS GROUP NEEDED TO REGISTER AS LOBBYISTS
Monday, January 7th, 2008Representative Tom Emmer has filed a complaint with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board alleging that progressive think tank Minnesota 2020 and its designated agents should be registered as lobbying entities. Click here to read the complaint filed by Emmer against Minnesota 2020. The complaint specifically mentions the activities of Minnesota 2020 board [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: IS ENTENZA PLANNING TO THUMB HIS NOSE AT HIS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST PROBLEMS?
Sunday, July 9th, 2006I have learned that we may have some answers to this question early this week. Developing…
FREUDIAN SLIP OR RARE MOMENT OF ENTENZA HONESTY?
Saturday, July 8th, 2006Either way, in the heat of the campaign, Entenza is starting to show his true colors as he tells the press that in his twelve years as a legislator he has never done anything for Veterans. This week, Matt Entenza held a press conference to discuss prohibiting creditors from foreclosing on members of our armed [...]
JOHNSON CAMPAIGN: ENTENZA TRIES TO “TALK THE TALK” AFTER A CAREER OF FAILING TO “WALK THE WALK” ON MILITARY AND VETERAN ISSUES
Thursday, July 6th, 2006St. Louis Park – During a twelve-year absence in the legislature for Matt Entenza on issues of importance to Veterans and service men and women, such as today’s issue and that of identity theft, Representative Jeff Johnson was getting bi-partisan identity theft legislation passed into law. Entenza’s new found passion for these issues as he [...]
MN GOP: ENTENZA DOES DAMAGE CONTROL ON VETERANS ISSUES
Thursday, July 6th, 2006"As Matt Entenza's ambition for higher office calls, he is quickly moving to damage control mode to cover for his checkered history on military and veterans issues. After leading opposition to mandatory selective service registration in college and campaigning against a proposed amendment to ban flag burning, Entenza's series of proposals can only be seen [...]
MATT ENTENZA THE COLLEGE YEARS: ENTENZA AND THE DRAFT #2
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006This is a follow-up to this post. MacCARD fights Feds To the Editor: The Macalester community needs to react quickly to the growing certainty of federal prosecution of draft registration resistors. The federal prosecutor’s office in the Twin Cities has just called a local non-registrant who had earlier publicly refused to register and warned him [...]
MATT ENTENZA THE COLLEGE YEARS: ENTENZA AND THE DRAFT
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Matt Entenza, as president of the Community Council (student government) at Macalester lead the charge to support the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group's (MPIRG) fight against a law requiring "recipients of federal financial aid to prove the they have registered for the draft." Click here for articles from covering the lawsuit. Back in March, Eva [...]
JOHNSON: ENTENZA’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST “SIGNIFICANT”
Friday, June 16th, 2006"Rep. Matt Entenza, the Democratic candidate for Minnesota attorney general, should explain how — and if — he could avoid a serious conflict of interest involving a state investigation of UnitedHealth Group, a company that has given millions of dollars in stock options to Entenza's wife, the Republican attorney general candidate said Thursday. 'We can [...]
JOHNSON: ENTENZA NEEDS TO EXPLAIN HOW HE AVOIDS CONFLICT
Friday, June 16th, 2006"The first real fireworks in the state attorney general's race went off Thursday with a charge of a potential conflict of interest. Republican candidate Jeff Johnson, a state representative from Plymouth, said that DFL candidate Matt Entenza, a state representative from St. Paul, needs to explain how he would avoid a conflict over his wife's [...]
JOHNSON CALLS ON ENTENZA TO EXPLAIN HOW HE WOULD HANDLE UNITEDHEALTH GROUP CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Thursday, June 15th, 2006Johnson: "No attorney general in Minnesota history has faced such a significant personal conflict of interest on such an important issue." MINNEAPOLIS — State Representative Jeff Johnson, R-Plymouth, Republican candidate for Minnesota attorney general, today called on Democrat attorney general candidate Matt Entenza to explain how he would handle his conflict of interest with UnitedHealth [...]
C’MON MN PUBLIUS…
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Senator Norm Coleman's past is old news and we've all seen the pictures. Coleman ran statewide in 1998 and 2002, so voters knew about his liberal past. Entenza hasn't run for statewide office before and his crazy college days are fair game. Also, there is a big difference between being an anti-war protester and protesting homecoming royalty [...]
MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: MATT ENTENZA THE COLLEGE YEARS #2
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006This is crazy. Is Entenza against apple pie and baseball?
MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: MATT ENTENZA THE COLLEGE YEARS
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006"'Homecoming in the traditional sense, with a homecoming queen and a formal dance is sexist and discriminatory in many ways,' MaCalester Community Council President Matt Entenza said, 'and therefore isn't appropriate for Macalester.'" Source: Mac Weekly, September 24, 1982. I want to thank the dedicated reader of Minnesota Democrats Exposed who sent me this article.
BREAKING NEWS: RUMORS OF HATCH ENDING CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR SWEEPING THE CAPITOL
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Numerous St. Paul sources have contacted me with a rumor that Mike Hatch may end his campaign for governor and run for re-election. There are a few variations of the rumor, but the basics are as follows: 1. Hatch had a meeting last evening with Wendy Anderson and Hatch informed Anderson of his intentions to run [...]
WILL MINNESOTA LET ENTENZA BUY AG OFFICE WITH QUAM’S MONEY?
Monday, May 22nd, 2006One of the worst kept secrets in Minnesota politics was that Matt Entenza plans to use millions of his wife's money to try to purchase the office of Attorney General. Well, just this past weekend, Entenza let us in on his little secret. (funny how he chose to do so when there was a strong [...]
DEMOCRATS UNHAPPY WITH ENTENZA IGNORING SPENDING LIMITS
Monday, May 22nd, 2006"Entenza bankrolling campaign with wife's health-care millions"