Occupation Activist Role American Politician Party Ecology Democracy Party | Name Ken Pentel Education University of Minnesota Incumbent Tim Pawlenty | |
Opponent(s) Mark Dayton (DFL)
Tom Emmer (R)
Tom Horner (IP)
Chris Wright (GRP)
Farheen Hakeem (GP)
Linda Eno (RP) Political party Ecology Democracy Party Other political
affiliations Green Party (until 2006) Website | ||
Our World Today 08/27/2012 Ecology Democracy Network
Ken Pentel (born c. 1961) (pronounced pen-TELL) is an American politician, and a candidate for Governor of Minnesota for the Ecology Democracy Party. Pentel was the gubernatorial candidate for the Green party three previous times, in 1998, 2002, and 2006.
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Biography
Pentel grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from Hopkins High School. His father owned Pentel Pontiac and his mother was an employment counselor. After high school, Pentel studied theater at the University of Minnesota for a couple of years before moving to California, intending to go into show business. Having seen the results of pollution in California, Pentel became interested in the environmental movement. When he arrived back in the Twin Cities in 1986, Pentel joined Greenpeace, where he worked for 11 years as a field manager, volunteer organizer and lobbyist.
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His platform consists of:
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Ecology Democracy Network
After the 2006 election, Pentel pursued the creation of a nonpartisan, political organization called the Ecology Democracy Network with a primary goal to establish ecological whole-cost accounting in Minnesota. The organization later established itself as a political party.