I think I met Alex Conant in 2011, in the early days of the presidential election of 2012. I’d started traveling to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to report on the Republican primary, and Alex was a spokesman for Tim Pawlenty, who at the time was considered a top-tier candidate for the GOP nomination.
Pawlenty, a former two-term Minnesota govern…
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