May. 24, 2011 . Stephen Gutowski

After being introduced by his wife, Mary, to a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa, today, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced that he is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 and said that if political leaders were not honest about the financial problems facing the nation "we my lose our country."

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