MPR maps travels of Tim Pawlenty, governor of United States of Minnesota
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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U.S. Sen. Al Franken may be able to draw them freehand in a couple minutes, but Gov. Pawlenty is on track to actually visit all 50 states by next July. That’s if he keeps up the peripatetic pace he’s set in the 105 days since he announced he wouldn’t seek a third term — and started tripping over his own itinerary. Minnesota Public Radio has made a map of Gov. Pawlenty’s travels, coloring in states as he fulfills his oft-made promise “to finish up my term as governor both in Minnesota and around the country.”
Pawlenty finally came clean late last month about the presidential ambitions behind his Johnny Appleseed-like nation-traipsing.
MPR vows to keep the map updated and, even with its crack news team monitoring T-Paw’s every move, asks for help with any gubernatorial sojourns they might have missed.
Here’s the current MPR map (green for official travel on state business, red for personal travel):
3 Comments
Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
Who’s paying for all that personal travel? Does he fly commercial? If not, whose plane is he using and who’s paying for it? Funny that with all that travel, he’s never made it over to my neck of the woods where he might encounter something other than a friendly photo op.
Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
Timmy you are not visiting the heart of the beast. Since Republicans are kind of a rump regional party you better get to Alabama and Georgia if you expect to be considered. And if you don’t spend some time pandering to the racist votes in South Carolina you have no chance. Get with the program former governor of Minnesota Pawlenty.
Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 11:56 pm
Where was your map, MPR, when Barack Obama abandoned the Senate for over two years to run for President? Or is this not a part of the usual political process? If such is the case than your promise to update the “map” looks a bit silly and, at the very least, like a partisan political contribution.
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