Guess Pawlenty is trying to sidestep the taint of defeat?
(CNN) – Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, was named Thursday as president and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, a Washington-based lobbying group.
Pawlenty will step down as a national co-chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to assume the new role, which will formally begin November 1.
CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable…a lobbying group. It’s more likely that he’s going to use the skills he learned and the connections he made as a politican to fill his pockets with the taxpayers gold. There should be a law prohibiting any ex-elected office holder (federal or state) from serving as a lobbyist for LIFE. And another law prohibiting an ex-House member or ex-Senator from stepping foot in Washington, DC for 10 years after leaving office.