Who Will Stop The Rain?

S.D. investigates PAC donations from Entenza's wife:

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.--At least two Democratic political action committees failed to report $55,000 in contributions from the wife of Minnesota House Minority Leader Matt Entenza, according to the South Dakota secretary of state.

Secretary of State Chris Nelson said he has given the information to South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long. The attorney general said he can't confirm or deny that such an investigation exists.

Nelson said the items indicate South Dakota PACs might have violated the state's campaign-finance law.

He didn't name the PACs but said they are related to a controversy surrounding contributions made by the wife of Entenza, a St. Paul DFLer.

Nelson's office started looking into the matter in July after news reports linked the contributions of Lois Quam--a top executive at the Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group--to at least two Democrat-controlled PACs in South Dakota.

The contributions were made in 2003 and allegedly went through the PACs to the South Dakota Democratic Party, which sent most of it back to Minnesota's DFL Party. Documents faxed anonymously to Minnesota reporters purportedly show the money ended up in a DFL campaign committee controlled by Entenza.

For Matt Entenza, the rain keeps comin' down.