Matthew "Matt" Keating Entenza (born October 4, 1961) is a Minnesota lawyer and former politician who served six terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives . He served as House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2006. After leaving the legislature, he was an unsuccessful candidate for various statewide offices, including governor , attorney general , and most recently state auditor .
12-707: Entenza is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Matt Entenza , Minnesota lawyer and politician John Entenza (1903–1984), pivotal figure in the growth of modernism in California Alonso Fajardo de Entenza (d. 1624, in the Philippines) Luisa de Entenza y Cascales Pacheco, Lady of Espinardo , daughter of don Alfonso de Entenza Alfonso de Entenza Pacheco, Lord of Espinardo See also [ edit ] Entença (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
24-810: A candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 2010. Robyne L. Robinson was born in Chicago as the younger of two daughters born to schoolteachers. She attended local area schools, graduating from Morgan Park Academy in 1979. Robyne began her professional career tracking news for WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana . Later, she served as Military Affairs reporter for WVEC-TV in the Hampton - Norfolk area of Virginia . The Texas Association of Broadcasters honored her while working at WFAA-TV in Dallas . At WFAA-TV she covered local politics, education and public affairs. While serving as
36-543: A conflict of interest due to Entenza's wife's high ranking executive position at UnitedHealth Group . Entenza's political campaign committee was also fined $ 28,000 by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Disclosure Board on August 15, 2006, for exceeding the legal amount for contributions. Entenza sought the office of governor in 2010 . He first announced that he would seek the Minnesota DFL's endorsement for
48-612: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Matt Entenza Entenza was born in Santa Monica, California . He studied at Augustana College in South Dakota before transferring to Macalester College . After graduating, Entenza studied law at Oxford University and taught high school . After returning to Minnesota, he received his J.D. with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School . A Democrat , Entenza
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72-592: The 2010 Minnesota gubernatorial race, later dropping out of the endorsement process and running a primary campaign without the DFL endorsement. Before removing himself from the official endorsement process, he was endorsed by Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison in May 2009 and Minnesota Stonewall DFL in December 2009. On May 27, 2010, he announced television broadcaster Robyne Robinson as his lieutenant governor running mate. Entenza
84-410: The race, Entenza received only 19% of the votes cast in the primary contest on August 12. Entenza has three adult sons and is divorced from their mother, Lois Quam . He has since remarried, to Minnesota-native Jean Fox Entenza. Entenza is a Lutheran . Robyne Robinson Robyne Robinson (born 1961 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American television journalist and entrepreneur . She ran as
96-602: The weekend anchor at WMAR-TV in Baltimore , she was awarded the Gannett-Paul Miller Fellowship for reporting Washington politics. For 20 years she was a reporter and then news anchor/co-anchor for Fox affiliate KMSP in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. and worked at KMSP-TV since 1990, when KMSP was independent Minnesota 9. On May 11, 2010, Robinson announced that she would leave KMSP and broadcasting. Her last day
108-536: Was May 26, 2010. On May 27, 2010, it was announced that Robinson would serve as the running mate of Matt Entenza , a DFL candidate in the August 2010 Minnesota gubernatorial primary. She had not previously been a candidate for elective office. On May 24, 2010, Robinson said in an interview that she had been asked to serve as the running mate of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza . Robinson said she had not made up her mind yet, but that she
120-588: Was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives from District 64A in 1994. The district includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County . He served on the K-12 Finance, Education Policy, and Commerce committees. In 2006, Entenza resigned as House Minority Leader to focus on a campaign for Minnesota Attorney General. He withdrew from that race on July 18, 2006. Critics had raised concerns of
132-490: Was not endorsed by the state party, and elected to participate in the primary election, in which he finished third, after Mark Dayton and Margaret Anderson Kelliher . In the 2014 election , Entenza ran for Minnesota State Auditor against the DFL-endorsed incumbent, Rebecca Otto . He bypassed public financing, which allowed him to exceed state spending limits. Despite spending more than $ 675,000 of his personal money on
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#1733084551347144-542: Was seriously considering it, as "any time you are potentially called to public service you need to think heavily about it." On May 27, 2010, the Entenza campaign announced that Robinson had accepted the offer. Robinson and Fox 9 were criticized for allowing Robinson to remain on air despite the offer, and also for not mentioning the offer during their newscast. Robinson is the second Fox 9 News anchor to seek statewide office. Former U.S. Senator Rod Grams worked as an anchor for
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