Entenza Having a Horrible Week

There's no getting around that fact. His wife, Lois Quam, is a defendant in a class action lawsuit, MNGOP Chairman Ron Carey is challenging his honesty and now this.

Let's start with the last article:
A Chicago researcher who was being paid by state Rep. Matt Entenza to gather information about Attorney General Mike Hatch's office also sought information on a parking ticket Hatch got in Mendota Heights, according to Dakota County records obtained by the Star Tribune Thursday.

Entenza, who is now the DFL Party's endorsed candidate for attorney general, has adamantly insisted that his inquiries in 2005 about his fellow DFLer, now the DFL-endorsed candidate for governor, were a harmless effort to learn more about how the attorney general's office worked and not an effort to find dirt, or damaging information.
Does this mean that Mr. Entenza thinks that Mr. Hatch's parking tickets are part of learning "more about how the attorney general's office worked"? It gets worse:
"We gave you everything we got," Entenza said in a 30-minute telephone session with state capitol reporters.
That sounds pretty categorical to me...except:
The Dakota County records, which were not among the documents Entenza released Thursday, show that Hatch got a parking ticket on a 2002 Buick that was parked after hours at a scenic overlook in Mendota Heights.
OOPS!!! I'm guessing Mr. Entenza would like us to forget about the dirt-filled documents that he didn't include. I wonder what else he didn't include in the document dump. Enter Ron Carey:
"After deliberately deceiving Minnesotans by calling his now confirmed investigation of Mike Hatch an 'absolute fantasy,' Matt Entenza now wants us to believe he is releasing all of the information from the work of his private investigator. "Given his pattern of deception, I suspect Entenza is not being truthful and again call on he and Hatch to come clean about the full and complete nature of this unprecedented investigation. "There's a reason the Mesabi Daily News today called on Entenza to drop out of the race."

- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey
When you can't expect honesty from the state's top law enforcement official, then everything else is meaningless. Except for this:
Lois Quam, the wife of Minnesota attorney general candidate Matt Entenza, is one of 18 officers and directors of UnitedHealth Group named as defendants in a civil lawsuit alleging they misled investors or profited from illegal insider trading involving the firm's stock options. The class action suit was filed last week in U.S. District Court in St. Paul. The plaintiff is the California Public Employees Retirement System, which owns 6.7 million shares in the Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth.
This one might get messy before long. California's public employees union isn't someone to be messed with, which is the allegation at this point. If there's wrongdoing involved, which still must be proven, then Lois Quam might be in a difficult situation. This can't help Entenza's political chances either. In fact, with the Mesabi Daily News already calling for Entenza's withdrawal from the race, I think his political career might be over soon.

I can't picture Matt Entenza and Lois Quam having a worse day.


Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:17 PM

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