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Pawlenty Has Significant Money Ties To Mega-Bank Morgan Stanley | The Center for Public Integrity notes that, “in the last election cycle, Morgan Stanley executives donated $79,500 to [2012 GOP hopeful Tim] Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC, more than any other company’s executives except for Federated Insurance, according to the Center for Responsive Politics…Morgan Stanley executive Bill Strong, co-chair of Pawlenty’s GOP presidential campaign, has been spearheading much of the fundraising.” Pawlenty, like most of the financial industry’s biggest players, has been a skeptic of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.