Pawlenty: PAC to be announced on Thursday

Posted at 11:46 PM on September 30, 2009 by Tom Scheck (1 Comments)

Gov. Pawlenty told Greta Van Susteran with Fox News that details about his federal Political Action Committee, the Freedom First PAC, will be official Thursday morning. The Wall St. Journal also reports that the official paperwork will be filed Thursday. Here's the rough transcript from Pawlenty's Fox News appearance.

VAN SUSTERAN: i know tomorrow there will be another pac launched. if it were president pawlenty would it be transparent? i am teasing you.

GOV. PAWLENTY: next monday night, the vikings and the packers.

VAN SUSTERAN: this is so painful. this is so powerfully painful, but it will be a big gain. brett favre wearing that color. all right, let me ask you about your pac.

GOV. PAWLENTY: yes, details out tomorrow.

VAN SUSTERAN: do we get a sneak peak tonight?

GOV. PAWLENTY: it is going to be a federal pac to advance conservative ideas, and it is going to be called freedom forest, putting emphasis on freedom and liberty as a focus for our public policy. -- freedom first.

VAN SUSTERAN:: you are in sort of a left-leaning state of minnesota, and yet, you have a very high approval rating, and you are starting a pac tomorrow, but you certainly are not saying no to this, are you?

GOV. PAWLENTY: i really do not know what i am going to do. this is to benefit other candidates. what i am going to do down the road, i do not know. i will continue to speak out on these issues, but i do not know what the future holds.

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Comments (1)

It will be interesting to see the extent to which Governor Pawlenty's 'Freedom First' federal PAC will go to advance liberty as outlined in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

Posted by Anisha Dunne | October 1, 2009 9:55 PM

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