Pawlenty: I got your leadership summit

A couple of weeks ago Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller, DFL-Minneapolis, proposed a bipartisan "Minnesota Leadership Summit" of former governors and legislative leaders to talk about the state's long-term budget problems. He said he wanted to build on past ideas and look to the future.

One person who won't be attending the summit is the state's current top executive Tim Pawlenty. The governor sent a stinging letter to Pogemiller and House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher today saying, among other things, that "the state already has an annual 'Minnesota Leadership Summit.' It's called the legislative session and it lasts approximately five months."

Read the whole letter here.

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