mn_am1Gov. Pawlenty has penned a report with House Minority Leader John Boehner, titled “Capital Malfeasance,” that takes aim at how Democratic health care reforms would impact states. The Dem plan “will force states to comply with dozens of new mandates and regulations,” T-Paw and J-Bo write. That seems designed to answer a Star Tribune letter this morning complaining that Pawlenty railed against national Democratic health reform on the weekly radio show on which he’s supposed to “communicate to Minnesotans about state issues and programs and not talk politics.”

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning…

ST. PAUL: Show-off wedding party gets shown the door. The St. Paul couple whose dance to the wedding altar charmed the nation via YouTube got the bum’s rush at a New York hotel after they appeared on NBC-TV despite ABC paying their lodging.  [Pioneer Press]

MINNEAPOLIS: Somalis tricked into returning? The missing men who fought for insurgents in their homeland might not have known much of what they were getting into. [Associated Press]

ST. CLOUD: Emerald ash borers avoid traps, trees. The invasive buggers haven’t spread out of St. Paul yet, leaving the state’s sticky traps empty, except for hundreds of other insects. [St. Cloud Times]

MINNEAPOLIS: Dozen seek mayor’s job. They include Joey Lombard of the “Is Awesome” party.  [MinnPost]

WILLMAR: Chief justice calls court’s budget-crunch solution “least bad.” The state’s high-court head honcho is touring courthouses to see where bad judicial cuts are hurting. [West Central Tribune]

ST. PAUL: State’s courts only getting busier. Those cuts are coming as a new report shows Minnesota’s district courts took care of 1.9 million actions in 2008, a record. [Associated Press]