Don't miss this smackdown of MN Governor Pawlenty by M.A.W.B. Squad author Housemouse aka Margaret of Our House:
Aside from philosophical or ideological disappointment, I just can't understand Pawlenty's apparent lack of political skills, for someone who was an important leader in the legislature. Even if you don't care much about another tax on cigarettes, the idea that the Governor would float this idea now, at the very beginning of the most important period of budget negotiations, going into a special session. This is the kind of thing you do at the 11th hour, at an impasse which threatens to shut down government. Then you can cave a little and look like a leader. All he had to do was wait. Instead he pulls out his trump card (breaking the pledge) and flashes it on the table as his opening move.
Yeah. You better bring your A game if you want to take her on.
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