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From: DMaA	4/13/2011 10:21:01 AM
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Politico: TPaw apologizes for climate ‘mistake’ By DARREN SAMUELSOHN Politico Tim Pawlenty argued Monday that his past support for cap-and-trade legislation shouldn’t hinder his presidential bid because nearly all the other Republican White House hopefuls also took the same position. “Everybody in the race, at least the big names in the race, embraced climate change or cap-and-trade at one point or another, every one of us, so there’s no one who has been in executive position whose name is being bantered in a first or second-tier way who hasn’t embraced it in some way,” the former Minnesota governor said on the “Laura Ingraham Show.” “The question is in my case, I’ve said, ‘Look, I’ve made a mistake.’ I think cap-and-trade would be a ham-fisted, unhelpful, damaging thing to the economy,” Pawlenty added. “It’s misguided. I made the mistake. I admit it. I’m not trying to be cute about it. I just come out and tell you it was a mistake.” Pawlenty has been trying for more than a year to distance himself from his work on climate change as governor, including his signature on a 2007 law that forces an 80 percent cut in Minnesota’s greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury. blog.jeffchidester.com

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