Read My Lips: "No State Mimes!"
His tax pledge may be dead, but Governor Pawlenty is holding the poet laureate line:
Gov. Tim Pawlenty rejected a bill that was overwhelmingly passed by the Legislature that would have allowed him to appoint a poet laureate after receiving recommendations from the nonprofit Minnesota Humanities Commission.
The laureate would have been called on to provide verse for 'appropriate ceremonies and celebrations' of the state, such as the 2008 sesquicentennial. No state money would have gone with the job.
In a veto message signed Friday and announced Tuesday, however, Pawlenty said he saw no need for such a position.
'We can benefit from the richness and diversity of all of the poets in Minnesota and recognize and embrace their work as merit and circumstances warrant,' he said.
He also suggested that the measure could lead to "requests for a state mime, interpretive dancer or potter."
Don't give me that sad face Atomizer. Haven't I warned you about miming in the office? No, Governor Pawlenty is not a square. And you're not a freakin' robot either. Don't make me get out of this chair young man. Oh, now you're walking against the wind? No. It's NOT funny! Stop it now! You want a tug of war? I'll show you a...
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