Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty steals from veterans license plate fund for faith-based office

[Minnesota Raindog]

Minnesota Governor Timmy "The Tool" Pawlenty stole money from a veterans license plate fund to pay for a faith-based staffer in his own office. From Minnesota Independent:

Sen. Don Betzold, DFL-Fridley, told City Pages’ Matt Snyders on Thursday that Gov. Tim Pawlenty has diverted funds from the “Support Our Troops” license plate program to his Governor’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, an office that works to connect religious organizations with state funds.
Betzold says that $30,000 from the license plate program was supposed to go to the Department of Military Affairs and the Department of Veterans Affairs, but instead paid for a position at the faith-based office which is part of the Pawlenty’s office. The funds, writes Snyders, “by law, were supposed to go to the Department of Military Affairs and the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

More here:

http://minnesotaindependent.com/56235/sen-betzold-pawlenty-diverted-veterans-funding-to-faith-based-office#more-56235

[dchill]

1. These faith-based tools...

always go right into dismantling the 10 commandments, don't they?

[MissMarple]

2. So Pawlenty says..."oops, why I had no idea!"

[Frustratedlady]

3. You took the words right out of my mouth!

What a stupid move by Pawlenty.

That should finish him off.

[MadMaddie]

4. Just when you think they are done they rise again...

:evilfrown:

[katandmoon]

5. Bet the faith-based staffer wasn't someone hired off the street, either.