Gov. Tim Pawlenty got a tough time from callers on his WCCO radio show Friday. He was called cruel, told he "never learned anything" and taken to task for his views on education.
As the governor said, he "got an earful."
"Michael from Minneapolis" was the first to tee off on the Republican governor.
"Why do you hate the poor and disadvantaged in Minnesota?" Michael asked.
He also questioned Pawlenty's frequent bashing of unions' power, given Pawlenty's background in a union family.
"Obviously, you never learned anything," Michael said.
Pawlenty responded by saying that cost of human services programs, particularly subsidized health care programs, is "out of control."
"You can't have blank check, open appropriation, runaway government spending and that's what we had," Pawlenty said.