Brian Mcclung

Gov. Tim Pawlenty was at odds with his own communications office on a couple points at his press conference yesterday — including the topic of his talk.

With his legal bills expected to pass $10 million and no hope for getting his missed paychecks, Al Franken and the Democrats officially got the go-ahead to start a new fund for contributions. Meanwhile, Gov. Tim Pawlenty acknowledges it’s “frustrating” for Minnesota to go without a second senator — but he vows he won’t sign an election certificate until required to do so by law.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty released his revised budget today, which proposes deeper cuts to health and social services while increasing K-12 education funding levels. Days earlier, Senate DFLers put forward their own proposal, which advocates across-the-board cuts to all state services while adding revenue by taxing Minnesotans with the highest income. The two budgets are very [...]

As the 86th two-year session of the Minnesota legislature gets under way, Gov. Tim Pawlenty says there’s at least one option off the table to fix a state budget that faces a $4.8 billion shortfall: raising taxes.

MNpublius transcribes a conversation between Gov. Tim Pawlenty, once the top contender for the would-be-VP gig Sarah Palin got, and his spokesperson Brian McClung on today’s edition of the governor’s radio show:
“We don’t want you to sound like some of the political candidates where you say the economy is strong and it is not, Brian, [...]

There was an unsigned note sitting on TPT reporter Mary Lahammer’s capitol desk Tuesday morning. Scrawled across a printed copy of Lahammer’s blog post on how gender might be a factor in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s recent line-item veto, the note reads:
Do you have any evidence related to this charge? These are pretty bold accusations.”
Lahammer took [...]