Pawlenty supporters back Romney
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 7:59 am
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Some of Tim Pawlenty’s former Iowa supporters have found a home with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
Iowa Rep. Linda Miller of Bettendorf and Dallas County Recorder Chad Airhart of Waukee have both joined Romney’s leadership team, according to the Iowa Independent.
“Mitt Romney is the candidate we need to put this country back on the right track,” said Miller. “As governor, he balanced the budget and created jobs without raising taxes. He knows what is needed to get the economy moving again and has the private sector and government experience to do just that.”
Pawlenty dropped out of the race following a dismal showing in the Iowa Straw Poll on Aug. 13. Iowapolitics.com reported that some Pawlenty’s supporters were being pursued by other campaigns within a day of his withdrawal from the race.
Pawlenty repeatedly used Romney’s support for Massachusetts healthcare reform as a punchline during the campaign, calling it “Obamney-care,” although he declined to repeat the charge in a face-to-face June debate.
The Star Tribune reported that former U.S. Rep. Vin Weber of Minnesota has also thrown his weight behind Romney, perhaps giving Romney some sway over Minnesota Republicans, who overwhelmingly supported Pawlenty financially over other candidates, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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Comment posted August 25, 2011 @ 9:25 pm
It sort of makes my skin crawl to know this stuff. to think he was in charge of my state, and to have his followers now following a religious right…
when will be able to separate politics from religion?
Comment posted August 25, 2011 @ 11:21 pm
marie, it makes my skin crawl, too. I find myself reminding people now and again that the purpose of the separation of church and state wasn’t to punish Christians by taking God out of public schools, but that one of its goals was to protect religion by keeping the state out of the churches, so that the government couldn’t determine which religion was the true one and punish those that were different. And yet, here we are, in the 21st century, with a Republican party that has a religious purity test that caters to an extreme Christian ideology. Frankly, I think religious people should be frightened of a, for example, Bachmann or Perry presidency when they work so hard to break down that wall between their own particular religious beliefs and our government.
Comment posted August 26, 2011 @ 9:05 am
Romney isn’t religious right, he’s part of a cult known as Mormonism. Pawlenty and Romney are both big government liberals and that is why they have common supporters.
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