Tim Pawlenty would reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell if he could [VIDEO]

If he’s elected president, Tim Pawlenty says he would put military gay folk back in the closet by reinstating Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, putting himself at odds with Secretary of Defense Robert…
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Pawlenty Pardon: Sex offender Jeremy Giefer released on bail

​Jeremy Giefer, the convicted sex offender who received a 2008 pardon only to be charged anew last November with raping his daughter hundreds of times, is free on bail.Giefer had already …
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Tim Pawlenty CPAC debt ceiling talk at odds with John Boehner

Tim Pawlenty at CPAC today doubled down with the Michele Bachmann wing of the Republican party by insisting that, “We should not — we should not — raise the debt ceiling.”

Like Bachmann, …
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Pawlenty disregarded molester’s disorderly conduct conviction to give daycare pardon

​Jeremy Giefer was back in court this afternoon for violating the terms of his bail agreement by making contact with the daughter he is accused of molesting for the past seven years.When G…
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Pawlenty on sex criminal daycare pardon: “I am very troubled”

​Tim Pawlenty is in full ostrich mode.Tuesday we learned that Jeremy Giefer, the sex offender Pawlenty voted to pardon in 2008, has been allegedly raping his own daughter for the past nine…
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Tim Pawlenty loves federal spending (on flood relief)

Yesterday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was loving federal spending.

Not the kind to help all Minnesotans with their health care costs, however. Just the kind to help southern Minnesota recover from…
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Tim Pawlenty orders Minnesota not to access federal health care reform money

Minnesota government agencies have been ordered by Gov. Tim Pawlenty not to participate in any of the discretionary benefits contained in federal health care overhaul legislation passed by …
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