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Gov. Tim Pawlenty Wrong About Balanced Budget Amendment
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There is no end to the political posturing from those infected with Potomac Fever. The latest such example is Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty who is calling for strict spending limits as states and the federal government confront enormous deficits. Pawlenty is harking back to the failed notion of a ...9 hours ago -
Transgender advocates slam Pawlenty over Newsweek interview
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The National Center for Transgender Equality (NTCE) slammed Gov. Pawlenty last week for his telling Newsweek that Minnesota’s laws protecting transgender people from employment discrimination should be changed. Pawlenty called the 1993 Minnesota Human Rights Act “overbaked” because “if you are a third-grade ...13 hours ago -
Pawlenty appealing to "Party of Hoover" set
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Original Author: desmoinesdem Not content to push for a balanced-budget constitutional amendment in his own state, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has endorsed the idea of a federal constitutional amendment to require Congress to pass balanced budgets every year. The Wall ...15 hours ago -
Pawlentys amendments
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Amy Merrick has a good look at Tim Pawlentys recent moves to become a leading critic of government spending.Mr. Pawlenty has proposed an amendment to the Minnesota constitution that would limit spending during any two-year budget period to the amount of revenue collected during the previous budget cycle.At a ...1 day ago -
Pawlenty Pushes Caps on Spending
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, considered a possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, is calling for strict spending limits as states and the federal government confront enormous deficits. Mr. Pawlenty has proposed an amendment to the Minnesota constitution that would limit spending during any two-year budget ...1 day ago -
The Cost of No New Taxes, Part 6. Learn to Love the Snow
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Like this Christmas snow? Get used to it. Snuggle up with it. Name it. Buy it a magazine subscription. It’s going to stay awhile. Snow removal budgets have been cut in Minneapolis. Side streets (which is where we all live, right, so they’re not side streets, they’re HOME) will be slower to be plowed, and piles ...3 days ago -
THE FUSION OF FISCAL AND SOCIAL CONSERVATISM:
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Tim Pawlenty Gets No Respect : He doesnt have Sarah Palins pizzazz or Mitt Romneys money. But the governor of Minnesota may be a shrewd Republican bet in 2012. (Howard Fineman, Dec 21, 2009, NEWSWEEK) Do you think Palin is qualified to be president? She is easily as qualified as Barack Obama. I would argue shes ...5 days ago -
Poll Watch: PPP (D) Minnesota 6th Congressional District Political Survey
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PPP (D) Minnesota 6th Congressional District Political Survey Do you approve or disapprove of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s job performance? Approve 52% Disapprove 39% Among Independents Approve 53% Disapprove 38% Among Republicans Approve 79% Disapprove 12% Would you like to see Governor ...5 days ago -
Tim Pawlenty Gets No Respect (and that’s probably a good thing)
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Contra Newsweek’s Howard Fineman — who, if this interview is any indication, seems to have a schoolyard crush on the governor — Tim Pawlenty is not presidential material, especially when he insists on saying things like this: She [Sarah Palin] is easily as qualified as Barack Obama. I would argue ...5 days ago -
A Reply to David Frum
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David Frum quotes my post about Minnesota Governor Pawlenty and his support for teaching “intelligent design” creationism to public school children, and takes exception to my remarks: A Problem for Pawlenty . Johnson’s comment seems to me radically unfair. Pawlenty is a model of sensible modern conservatism. ...5 days ago -
Pawlenty in MN-6
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Public Policy Polling releases some more numbers (pdf) on MN-6, Michele Bachmannns district.Tim Pawlentys approval rating is +13% (52-39), but only 32% want him to run for President in 2012. 50% dont.Again, this is a Republican district -- Obamas approval rating there is 39%, and he lost the district to John ...5 days ago -
Tim Pawlenty makes Newsweeks "most intriguing" list
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Pawlenty even jokes about the oddness of his inclusion.5 days ago -
There’s Nothing Special About Tim Pawlenty
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. There was a time when I felt that Tim Pawlenty was one of the more palatable Republican leaders out there. I was wrong. As a Newsweek interview reveals, Pawlenty is just another anti-science, anti-gay, religious conservative. Here are some snippets from the Newsweek piece . Do you think Palin is qualified to ...5 days ago -
Odds and ends for 12/22
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All that, plus the sense God gave a billy goat : Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty: anti-science and anti-gay , and therefore a viable GOP candidate for president in 2012. Countdown : Scott Roeder, accused murderer of Dr. George Tiller, goes on trial Jan. 11 , and he’s not going to be allowed to claim that it was ...6 days ago -
Will Pawlenty try to scale back LGBT rights in 2010?
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In his interview with Newsweek (mentioned earlier by Chris Steller), Gov. Pawlenty said he regretted a 1993 vote to expand the state’s anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity and that they law should be changed. Specifically, he said laws that protect transgender Minnesotans ...6 days ago -
Republican Tim Pawlenty: Young Earth Creationist?
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In a recent Newsweek interview , 2012 presidential hopeful, Republican Tim Pawlenty, appears to seriously entertain young Earth creationism: Well, you know I’m an evangelical Christian. I believe that God created everything and that he is who he says he was. The Bible says that he created man and woman; it ...6 days ago -
Anti-science and anti-gay
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Science and gayness go naturally together, see? Why I Left the Right, Exhibit P for Pawlenty Newsweek has an interview with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, the very model of a modern GOP candidate, considered by many as a possible front runner for the Presidency in 2012: Anti-science and anti-gay. What follows ...6 days ago -
T-Paw takes heat on conflict-of-interest filings
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Jon Collins has a lengthy report detailing a steep drop (to 0) of conflict-of-interest disclosures by public officials since Tim Pawlenty became Minnesotas governor.Dozens of disclosures were filed in Minnesota between 1975 and 2002, according to the board’s annual reports. Prior to 2003, there were only a handful ...6 days ago -
PhoboQuotable - Tim Pawlenty
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"That statute is not worded the way it should be. I said I regretted the vote later because it included things like cross-dressing, and a variety of other people involved in behaviors that werent based on sexual orientation, just a preference for the way they dressed and behaved. So it was overly broad. So if you are ...6 days ago -
There are no conflicts of interest in Pawlenty’s Minnesota
Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. —
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Since Gov. Tim Pawlenty took office in 2003, not one public official has filed a conflict-of-interest disclosure with the state ethics board, an unprecedented streak for a disclosure system that had routinely been used for the previous three decades. Critics blame the precedent set for public officials by the ...6 days ago
