Monday, January 31, 2011

Pawlenty Confronted Steel Company Over Ties to Iran

Erin McPike, RCP
If former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty decides, as expected, to run for president in 2012, he likely will talk about a unique national security qualification from 2007 in which he nudged an Indian company to drop its plans to invest in Iran.The 50-year-old Republican embarked on a trade mission to India in late October of 2007 to meet executives from Essar Group, a Mumbai-based international conglomerate that had just acquired Minnesota Steel the week before. Essar was moving forward with plans to construct North America's first mine-to-steelmaking plant in Minnesota's Iron Range, a...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/31/steel_deal_reveals_pawlentys_priorities_on_security_jobs_108711.html

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