More on Matt Entenza’s run for governor
Yesterday, I pleaded for Matt Entenza to abide by the DFL endorsement in 2010. The response was huge, and across the blogosphere it seemed close to unanimous: forget the endorsement, he shouldn’t run at all! Jeff Fecke, writing at Blog of the Moderate Left, wrote:
I disagree with Jeff about primary fights…
But I absolutely agree that Matt Entenza should stay out of the race. Look, he melted down in 2006 because of a variety of issues, from his decision to hire a private investigator to investigate Mike Hatch to his wife’s connections to United Health Care. He shouldn’t run not because he’ll hurt the DFL by throwing it to a primary, but because he’s an objectively bad candidate.
Commenter Hannah Montana (I’m thinking probably not her real name) writes:
He should keep on with the think tank thing and stay OUT of public office. His political career is finished. Let others have a turn who aren’t damaged goods.
I have to agree. Entenza’s run for Attorney General fell apart due to scandal in 2006; what’s different in 2010? There is a humongous contingent of fantastic candidates in 2010, and Entenza is simply not in the top tier. He has one thing, and one thing only, going for him: his ability to spend $6 million of his own money smearing whoever does win the DFL endorsement. Explain to me how that’s a good thing for DFLers, or for our state?
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Jeff Rosenberg | October 10, 2008
