| Back in late October, Gov. T-Bag announced he was pulling large screen televisions from the Moose Lake Regional Treatment Center, where the State houses sex offenders that have essentially completed their sentences but are deemed too dangerous to re-enter society.
Minnesota Public Radio reported:
Gov. Tim Pawlenty ordered 25 TVs removed, after a newspaper reported the 50-inch sets cost about $2,200 each.
On his weekly radio program today, the governor again called putting the TVs in the sex offender treatment facility "a bone-headed move." Pawlenty said 13 of them will be put to better use in five of the state's veterans homes.
"We'll have our American heroes, those folks who have served this country so valiantly, who are now receiving care and housing from our veterans homes in Minnesota, receiving about 13 or 14 of these nice TV sets, so our veterans can watch state-of-the art nice TVs," said Pawlenty.
Pawlenty said the state will sell the rest of the TVs. He said sex offenders can watch smaller, cheaper TVs. Veterans homes that will get the plasma TVs are in Minneapolis, Fergus Falls, Hastings and Silver Bay. (MnPublicRadio)
OK, so - how'd THAT one work out?
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