More balance than the MPR comments, but the blue collar people in this article are on to him - including one who claims to be related to him.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/112529819.html?elr=KArks:DCiUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUec7PaP3i_vPQL7PQLaUAccolades could not get more effusive for outgoing Gov. Tim Pawlenty than the assessment of Tom Hanson, his former finance director: "He's better at it than the rest of us," said Hanson, adding that he would literally follow Pawlenty anywhere. "He makes you better."
But at Croatian Hall in South St. Paul, Pawlenty's old blue-collar neighborhood, the mood is decidedly different. Norm Coen talked of a man who betrayed his roots for political gain. "He plays on that, yeah -- 'blue collar .... hockey town,'
it stops at the door" with him, said Coen, a retired steel worker. "I think he's a fraud."....
....Geri Lewanovich, who tends bar at the hall and says she is related to Pawlenty, called him "a wonderful man." Growing up, she recalled, "He was never a little troublemaker."
Asked about the governor's politics, or why he became a Republican, she stopped talking. "I'm a staunch Democrat -- I will leave it at that. The family has always been Democratic working class."
The comment about Timmy never being a troublemaker made me think about how, remember back in grade school when the teacher would leave the room after telling everyone to behave? I'll bet Timmy was the kid who ratted everyone out for even the most minor infraction.
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