Here's some more information that wasn't disclosed by the Minnesota big money people who funneled money to South Dakota:
Matt Entenza, who this summer abandoned his Democratic campaign for Minnesota attorney general in the midst of a controversy over his hiring of a Chicago firm to investigate Mike Hatch, said Friday that he paid $40,000 for research that was more extensive than he previously admitted.
In addition to Hatch, the current attorney general who is now a Democratic candidate for governor, Entenza's research focused on Gov. Tim Pawlenty; Rep. Jeff Johnson, the Republican candidate for attorney general; and Entenza himself.
When a Republican-oriented blog, MinnesotaDemocratsExposed, first reported in July 2005 that Entenza had hired someone to investigate Hatch, Entenza dismissed the report as "just absolutely absurd."
This summer, when the allegation resurfaced, Entenza said he paid only a "couple of hundred dollars" for his research on Hatch. He said some research the firm conducted, including an investigation of a Hatch parking ticket, went beyond anything he authorized.
On Friday, Entenza filed an amended campaign finance report, disclosing that he paid the $40,000 to Gragert Research, the Chicago company that conducted the research.
The Argus Leader reported a few days ago that the South Dakota Democratic Party is under investigation for violating campaign-finance laws, which is related to this controversy in Minnesota.
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