<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of the Houston Chronicle at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Pawlenty-resigns-from-Romney-campaign-to-lobby-3880288.php">http://www.chron.com/news/article/Pawlenty-resigns-from-Romney-campaign-to-lobby-3880288.php</a><div><div> </div><div>-------------------------------------</div><h1 class="headline entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Pawlenty resigns from Romney campaign to lobby</span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is resigning as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign to lobby for the financial services industry. </span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Financial Services Roundtable announced Thursday that Pawlenty will become its new president and chief executive officer on November 1. </div><div><br></div><div>Pawlenty was an early entrant in the Republican presidential campaign, but he ended his bid last year amid poor polling before the primaries began. He was often mentioned as a potential running mate for Romney and has campaigned across the country for the nominee. </div><div><br></div><div>The Financial Services Roundtable said in a press release that Pawlenty was stepping down from the campaign because the group is a bipartisan organization.<div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------<br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .<div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>