The race to succeed outgoing Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty remains a dead heat between former Democratic Sen. Mark Dayton and Republican state Rep. Tom Emmer, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted Sept. 12-14. Dayton leads Emmer by 38 percent to 36 percent with 18 percent for Independence Party candidate Tom Horner. Five percent prefer another [...]
The same week Tim Pawlenty signed an executive order preventing Minnesota from accepting grant money available under the new health care law, the governor said he would accept $263 million in federal funding for state’s Medicaid program. Despite earlier describing the Medicaid money as a “bailout” of the states, Pawlenty said Wednesday that he would [...]
Why was Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty wearing jeans this month at a meeting of formally attired governors in Boston? Fashion mystery solved: He was rushing off to a county Republican picnic 67 miles away in New Hampshire, the lead-off presidential primary state. There’s no mystery about Pawlenty’s political intentions, which partially explains why he drew [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is mulling a 2012 GOP presidential run, steps up his game Monday when he makes his debut before the national political press corps. Pawlenty will meet with reporters at a breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor, a session with a goal to let journalists who have never met him [...]
Democrats have not held the governor’s seat in Minnesota since Rudy Perpich left office in 1991, but the decision of GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty not to run again may have created the opening they needed in this year’s gubernatorial race, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted July 19. Two of the three Democrats hoping [...]
Political candidates often talk a good game of supporting fellow party members seeking office, but how wide do they open their wallets? In the case of three potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates — ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — the answer is . . . not [...]
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