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Published July 22, 2009, 12:00 AM

Letter: Pawlenty does about-face on LGA

I just don’t understand Tim Pawlenty. When he was running for the governor’s office in 2002, he defended local government aid (LGA), which provides for basic quality of life in cities and small towns around Minnesota.

By: Mike McCarvel, Brewster, Worthington Daily Globe

  • Gov. Tim Pawlenty
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    File Photo: Gov. Tim Pawlenty announces that he will sign all legislative-passed budget bills, with some things removed, and make cuts on his own to balance the state budget. The move sent shock waves through the Capitol. Sen. David Hann of Eden Prairie is on the left. (Don Davis/State Capitol Bureau)

I just don’t understand Tim Pawlenty. When he was running for the governor’s office in 2002, he defended local government aid (LGA), which provides for basic quality of life in cities and small towns around Minnesota. Once he was elected, Pawlenty drafted the current LGA program, sent it through the legislature and signed it into law. Now he’s calling his own program “municipal welfare” and blaming Democrats for trying to fund it.

Is it welfare to want public libraries in our communities, summer recreation programs for our children and police officers on our streets? I don’t think so. The governor used to agree with me. Now he has changed his mind.

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