Tim Pawlenty Launches Political Action Committee, Political IOUs

by Amy Judd | October 1, 2009 at 09:08 am

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Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota Governor, submitted papers today to the Federal Election Commission to launch the Political Action Committee (or PAC) today to help his fellow Republicans and to start collection political IOUs - Pawlenty is angling for a possible 2012 presidential bid.

His hopes for the Freedom First PAC will be to offer financial support to candidates who want to put freedom before government and to support Tim Pawlenty to promote his own message.

This committee is similar to the one that Mitt Romney developed called the Free and Strong America PAC launched in 2008.

“Right now, our freedoms are being challenged on many fronts,” Pawlenty said in a statement. “This organization is dedicated to putting freedom first again in America. By helping candidates and translating our ideas into policies that everyone can relate to and support, we can turn back the growth of Washington and renew the promise of freedom.”

Willaim H. Strong, Morgan Stanley and Vin Weber are all part of the PAC committee as well.

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