Pawlenty Says He’ll Join Health Care Lawsuits

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) and President Barack Obama
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Presidential hopeful Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is joining the multi-state lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of health care reform, an issue that has emerged as a conservative litmus test.

Pawlenty’s (R) political action committee sent out a link to a Minnesota Public Radio piece breaking the news that the governor would buck Attorney General Lori Swanson, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Swanson rejected Pawlenty’s request to join the lawsuit, now supported by more than a dozen attorneys general. Several other states are taking their own action.

Minnesota Public Radio reported that Pawlenty said he may either join the lawsuit or bring one of his own. From their report:

“The federal government is now requiring citizens under penalty of a fine to buy a good or a service, and we think that’s an unprecedented overreach by the federal government into the lives of individual citizens,” he said.

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