He’s also a Global Warming guy.
Isn’t Pawlenty one of those Republican governors who has spent the past 8 years trying to re-brand the party from the inside as Democrat Lite?
It seems to me that that global warming nonsense he’s been spouting is a recent phenomenon. Prolly to give himself some cover with the so-called moderates and to take that issue away from the dems if it comes to that. He’s a solid fiscal conservative who brought the state back from the 2001 recession and budget deficits without tax increases when a lot of other governors, even republican governors, were raising taxes. He gets no credit for that around here though.
His Lt. Gov. (Carol Molnau) is unpopular and making her governor in his absence would be a democrat talking point that might swing the state to the dems in the GE.