Entenza continues to sink money into campaign before tomorrow’s primary

No matter if his cards (or polling data) look weak, DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza keeps pushing more chips into the pot. The self-funded candidate poured more of his personal wealth into the race Friday, committing another $250,000 to his campaign. He had already contributed $620,000 to his campaign the previous Friday, and he has now spent over $1.3 million of his own money during the last three weeks.

With the new personal loans, Entenza has outspent his opponents to an almost comical degree. The $250,000 available to the Entenza campaign just for the last weekend of the race is only slightly less than the total cash available to his two primary opponents — Mark Dayton and Margaret Anderson Kelliher — during the entire last month of the campaign.

And coming this close to voting day, it is unclear how the new quarter of a million dollars can even be particularly useful. It is not as if the campaign can hire swaths of new campaign staff for two days of work, and the majority of prime TV advertising real estate has most likely been purchased already. If Election Day results stay true to recent polls, perhaps Entenza supporters can expect to drown their sorrows with Cristal and caviar at his concession party.