Matt Entenza

Mattson to challenge Entenza in DFL primary

7/17 Morning Communiqué

Entenza: former AG candidate, future house husband

Mattson endorses Solicitor General Lori Swanson for AG

Campaign cash: Auditing the auditor candidates

Political spending up everywhere except the Quam-Entenza household

Have You Seen Me?

A law-and-order Christian conservative most people have never heard of tries to wrest the AG's office away from the DFL

When the Going Gets Weird

Mike Hatch throws a bizarre—though hardly baseless—jab at the Star Tribune

Running Scared

Will fallout from congressional ethics scandals finally prompt change at the Capitol?

United He Stands

In the past seven years the Minnesota attorney general's office has earned a rep as one of the country's toughest HMO watchdogs. So does it matter that Matt Entenza, the DFL's heir apparent to the job, is married to one of the most powerful executives in

Rep. Ellison endorses Entenza for governor

Ellison and Entenza attended law school together at the University of Minnesota and also served together in the Minnesota legislature.

Minnesota Netroots tweets gubernatorial debate

Public policy cheers and jeers in 140 characters or less.

R.T. Rybak launches campaign for governor

The Minneapolis mayor kicks off his campaign for governor at the Varsity Theater.

Tim Pawlenty's state of the state: Let the spin begin

His speech was barely over before Democrats seeking his office took to the Internet offering instapunditry.

Tom Emmer wins GOP endorsement

Tom Emmer, hockey dad​Sarah Palin picked a winner: Republican state Rep. Tom Emmer won the his party's endorsement for the Minnesota's governor's race on Friday. Palin, who quit her own job as Aaska's governor after a failed shot at the vice presidency, had chimed in just before the conventio ... More >>

Tom Horner wins IP endorsement

The man in the middle​Tom Horner took home the Independence Party gubernatorial endorsement Saturday, officially securing the businessman and former Republican's place in the middle. And the middle is just where Horner wants to be. He's told reporters many times that he's in it to win it, no ... More >>

Paul Thissen staffer moves to Team Entenza

Team Entenza picks up former foe's staffer​Matt Entenza, one of three candidates left in the DFL gubernatorial primary race, just plucked a staffer from former opponent Paul Thissen. Pam McCrory worked as a field organizer for Thissen, a.k.a. the statehouse's resident boy genius, before Thiss ... More >>

Mark Dayton leads DFL race for governor. Margaret Anderson who?

No messy DFL endorsement process for this guy​So, Margaret Anderson Kelliher has to be scratching her head a little bit this morning. She spent a boatload of energy and political capital winning the DFL endorsement to run for governor, and now she's playing second fiddle to former U.S. Sen. Ma ... More >>

Kelliher, Dayton stiff Floodwood 3rd-graders' schoolyard face-off

Matt Entenza says he's ready for a schoolyard face-off.​A class of ambitious third-graders has invited candidates running in the 2010 Minnesota governor's race to debate Friday at their school in Floodwood, Minn. Floodwood is a small town northwest of Duluth. While it's probably not a schedul ... More >>

Kelliher, Dayton, Entenza, Horner targeted by anti-gay marriage agitators

Anti-gay marriage forces characterize democracy in action as an imposition​That didn't take long. The nominating conventions are over. The Legislature has wrapped up business. The November elections are the Next Big Thing on the political calendar. Must be time for out-of-state right wingers ... More >>

John Gunyou picked as Margaret Anderson Kelliher's running mate

Kelliher hopes Gunyou will appeal to the middle.​It's official: Former Minnesota finance commissioner John Gunyou will be named DFL-endorsed Margaret Anderson Kelliher's gubernatorial running mate this afternoon, according to reports. Gunyou served as finance commissioner during the Gov. Arne ... More >>

Bridget Cusick, Matt Entenza press secretary, leaves the campaign (UPDATED)

Cusick's successor says the staff shakeup has nothing to do with today's leak to the media.​Bridget Cusick, press secretary for DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza, is leaving the campaign.When asked via twitter if her departure had anything to do with today's leak to the media that Entenza h ... More >>

Robyne Robinson silent on Entenza offer on Fox 9 [VIDEO]

Robyne Robinson appeared on her regular Fox 9 news spot at 5 p.m. today, but she made no comment on gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza's offer for Robinson to be his running mate -- even during a story about DFL candidates' running mate picks. When asked about Robinson anchoring tonight during ... More >>

Robyne Robinson Twitter account is fake (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Robinson's spokeswoman at l'etoile, Kate Iverson, is tweeting that the account is  fake. Oddly, l'etoile was among those that retweeted the apparently fake @RobyneRobinson herself earlier this morning: .bbpBox14709278463 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1273689250/ima ... More >>

Ethics Expert: Robyne Robinson should have retired early

Robinson should have hastened her retirement, says ethics expert.​Monday morning, two days before Robyne Robinson's last day at Fox 9 News, word leaked to the press that the veteran anchor was considering a job as gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza's running mate. Robinson confirmed the ru ... More >>

Jason DeRusha's fake campaign enemies go negative (Video)

Photo: PerfectPorridgeCould he win? Good question​Watching from the sidelines as Fox 9's Robyne Robinson draws a boat load of media buzz after being asked to be Matt Entenza's running mate in the governor's race, WCCO's Jason DeRusha weighed in yesterday with some humor. The Good Question man ... More >>

Rasmussen poll has Emmer, Kelliher, Dayton, Entenza tied up

Via Rasmussen ReportsCheck out the number of undecideds before drawing any conclusions​Here's what Minnesota Republicans have after endorsing Tom Emmer for governor, barnstorming the state in a unity tour, and trying hard to co-opt the teabaggers: A tie. Rasmussen, the most GOP-friendly of na ... More >>

Lt. Gov. Candidate Robyne Robinson on receiving "oral pleasure"

Lt. Gov. Candidate Robyne Robinson: "You met a guy who actually likes 'giving oral pleasure' without being asked, and you let him get away?! There are many of your fellow co-eds shaking their heads in disbelief right now."​Whenever someone gets thrust into sudden political  prominence--say, a ... More >>

Fox 9 endorses Robyne Robinson for Lieutenant Governor [VIDEO]

A sad sendoff to Robyne Robinson's career as a journalist​Going into last night's 9 p.m. broadcast--Robyne Robinson's signoff before leaving the pursue politics as Matt Entenza running mate--Fox 9 had ample warning of the potential for conflicts of interest.The day after Robinson admitted that she ... More >>

Matt Entenza picks Robyne Robinson as running mate

She's the one on the Greyhound bus​Ending a week of wild web buzz, DFL candidate for governor Matt Entenza has picked former Fox 9 anchorwoman Robyne Robinson as his running mate. And as promised, he made the announcement via Twitter: "It's my distinct pleasure to announce Robyne Robinson @ro ... More >>

American Apparel butts in on Robyne Robinson's moment

Robyne Robinson and Matt Entenza made official this morning what we told you Monday: they're running for office together. So far, the media roll-out has been anything but smooth, and this photo is no exception. The Entenza campaign couldn't get a shot from the front, so we could actually see the can ... More >>

Robyne Robinson turns Fox 9 into campaign commercial

Lieutenant governor candidate denies conflict of interest

Matt Entenza's St. Paul campaign office burglarized

​Sometime between late Wednesday and early Thursday, burglars broke into DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza's campaign office on University Avenue and made off with laptop computers, still and video cameras valued at about $3,000. St. Paul police said there are no suspects. Entenza spo ... More >>

Tom Emmer losing to all DFLers in new poll

Tom Emmer's supporters cry foul​Republican candidate for governor Tom Emmer trails all three of his potential DFL opponents -- Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Mark Dayton and Matt Entenza -- in a new poll released today by Decision Resources and published in the Pioneer Press. Emmer supporters ar ... More >>

12,000 Twin Cities nurses strike. Who's affected? [Video]

​In what may be the largest ever strike of its kind, 12,000 Twin Cities nurses have walked off the job at 14 area hospitals in a 24-hour strike over pay, pensions and staffing ratios. Outside Abbott Northwestern in Minneapolis, they greeted the day with a rendition of "Amazing Grace." The hos ... More >>

Susan Gaertner endorses Matt Entenza for governor

Sisterhood only goes so far​So much for the sisterhood. When DFLer Susan Gaertner dropped out of the governor's race, she said that one of her reasons was to try and clear a path for rival Margaret Anderson Keliher to make some history. "This is the closest Minnesota has yet to come to elec ... More >>

National Organization for Marriage plans gay marriage ban road trip

Photo: Micke LichtStop that. Stop that right now​The National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay marriage group, has announced a 6,000-mile, 23-state road trip by bus aimed at informing scaring folks about the evil conspiracy to force same-sex marriage on us poor, unsuspecting trolls. And, ... More >>

Margaret Anderson Kelliher tax disclosure follows Dayton

Photo: Nick VlcekThe Kellihers pulled in $143,968 last year​Following Mark Dayton's lead, DFL-endorsed gubernatorial candidateMargaret Anderson Kelliher released her 2009 tax records yesterday afternoon. Filing jointly, Kelliher and her husband, David Kelliher, earned $143,968 in adjusted gros ... More >>

Matt Entenza just might win

DFL dark horse outspends rivals

NOW MN endorsement WTF just AP reporter's goof (UPDATED)

Remember when it seemed like the National Organization for Women picked a man for governor over Margaret Anderson Kelliher? Here's what really happened.

Slug endorses Matt Entenza for governor

The Matt Entenza gubernatorial campaign has been full of WTF moments. Remember, this is the guy who picked a FOX 9 news anchor/jewelry entrepreneur to be his running mate. Then there was that false report that the Minnesota faction of the National Organization for Women endorsed Entenza over Marga ... More >>

Margaret Anderson Kelliher raises $1 million, but burns through cash

Photo: Nick VlcekMargaret Anderson Kelliher's burning through her cash​DFL-endorsed Margaret Anderson Kelliher says her gubernatorial campaign has raised almost a cool $1 million so far in 2010. But while the figure sounds like a lot of dough, but the fact is that Team Kelliher currently only ... More >>

Mark Dayton, Matt Entenza spend and barely lift a finger

Matt Entenza just wrote his campaign a check for a cool $4 million​Remember a few months ago when Matt Entenza and Mark Dayton said they would be willing to spend millions of dollars from their own fortunes on their gubernatorial campaigns? Looks like they weren't kidding. This week's campaign ... More >>

Tom Emmer again trails Democrats, this time in Star Tribune poll

Mark Dayton showed the widest lead over Tom Emmer in the Star Tribune poll​Republican candidate for governor Tom Emmer has again come up with the short end of the stick in a statewide poll compared to his Democratic rivals. A Star Tribune poll released over the weekend shows Mark Dayton, Marga ... More >>

Tom Emmer trails all Democrats in KSTP/SurveyUSA poll

Tom Emmer's behind again​If Tom Emmer's support from Target and other Minnesota corporations is helping him in the race for governor, it isn't showing yet. Once again, a statewide poll shows the Republican playing second fiddle to each of the three DFL candidates: Margaret Anderson Kelliher, M ... More >>

Dayton, Entenza, Kelliher debate for last time at the Fitz

TheUptake videoThe DFL candidates: These people want your vote​ It's down to the wire for Mark Dayton, Matt Entenza, and Margaret Anderson Kelliher. The three DFL candidates debated last night, their last appearance together before Tuesday's primary. If you still haven't decided, maybe this video ... More >>

Robyne Robinson says Entenza campaign got minorities voting

It's over for Matt Entenza and Robyne Robinson​ By about 9:24 p.m., it was all over for the Matt Entenza campaign. Faces were long and tears were shed as Entenza conceded defeat in a gracious speech at his campaign headquarters in St. Paul Tuesday night. "It is with tremendous regret that I kno ... More >>

Mark Dayton leads Tom Emmer but Tom Horner surges in new poll

Mark Dayton leads the governor's race, but not by much.​Democrat Mark Dayton has the edge over Republican Tom Emmer in the latest statewide poll conducted ahead of the November election for governor. But his margin is narrow. And Independence Party candidate Tom Horner gained a lot of ground ... More >>