Pawlenty Used to Tweak Santorum

By Michael Warren

Published February 6, 2012 8:20pm ET

Pawlenty Used to Tweak Santorum — On a conference call Monday afternoon, a Mitt Romney campaign surrogate—Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor—criticized Rick Santorum for being part of the “big-spending establishment in Congress and in the influence-peddling industry that surrounds Congress,” and for previously supporting earmarked spending. Pawlenty endorsed Romney soon after dropping out of the Republican presidential primary last year. […]

On a conference call Monday afternoon, a Mitt Romney campaign surrogate—Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor—criticized Rick Santorum for being part of the “big-spending establishment in Congress and in the influence-peddling industry that surrounds Congress,” and for previously supporting earmarked spending.

Pawlenty endorsed Romney soon after dropping out of the Republican presidential primary last year. Today’s call was organized by Romney’s presidential campaign.