Tim Pawlenty News

Thrilled with twin victories this month, Republican governors are looking to lead a party-wide resurgence in 2010 and shape the GOP for years to come.

After two bleak years, Republican governors gathered here on Thursday to assess their political future - and they liked what they saw.

Tim Pawlenty, but remain cautious. Two weeks ago Pawlenty presented the initiative, which, if approved by voters, would cap state general fund spending at the revenue level received during the previous two-year spending cycle.

Sarah Palin has a leg up on other Republicans Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in a photo from Runner's World magazine that was used on the cover of the latest edition of Newsweek.

Minnesotans give President Obama and Gov. Tim Pawlenty roughly equal grades for the job they're doing, but it's no contest when the two are matched in a hypothetical 2012 presidential run.

Asked to handicap the race for the 2012 Republican nomination for president, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty left one name off the list of contenders _ his own.

Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation.

A Minnesota judge is weighing whether to temporarily reverse budget cuts made by Gov.

With most states, including Minnesota, facing budget problems not seen since the Great Depression, California may become the model for financial collapse.

This spring, Gov. Tim Pawlenty unilaterally instituted budget reductions to vital state services, not the least of which will eliminate health insurance for more than 30,000 Minnesotans.

WASHINGTON -- Sometimes staying out of a fight is the smartest path in politics.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's office has been getting computer support staffing from a state technology office without a formal agreement that would have triggered detailed reporting of the costs.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be the keynote speaker at the Alabama Republican Party's annual "Red, White & Blue Dinner" on Feb.

Promising to cut the size and reach of government, to focus on market-based health care and to slash welfare benefits, the four leading Republican contenders for governor generated smiles and applause from a largely Republican crowd at Minnesota State University Thursday night.

Minnesota's second largest state employee union is lending its backing to Democratic candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the 2010 governor's race.

" Gov. Tim Pawlenty yesterday signed Emergency Executive Order 09-12, providing emergency relief from regulations pertaining to hours of service for carriers and drivers of commercial motor vehicles while in the process of obtaining and transporting anhydrous ammonia for farm use.

Last update: November 11, 2009 - 4:13 PM A spokesman for Gov. Tim Pawlenty's political action committee said this afternoon that the governor will be traveling to New Hampshire in December to fundraise for some local Republican politicians.

With Election Day 2010 one year away, the question looms just how will voters in southern Minnesota react to U.S. Rep.

The governor's annual deer-and-publicity-hunting excursion over the weekend seems to have turned into a bit of a PR nightmare.

It is not too early to start thinking about who might be the best choice for a Green Party presidential candidate in 2012.