Minnesota’s government is shutting down amid a fight over — what else — raising taxes, but former governor Tim Pawlenty couldn’t be happier. In fact, he wishes his own shutdown standoff in 2005 had lasted even longer.“I think it was nine days (of government shutdown) at that time, and I think we could have gotten a better deal if we had allowed that to continue for a while,” Pawlenty told reporters Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport, according to Politico.
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