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Gov.  Pawlenty has maintained for months that he would block any attempts to use the state's general tax revenues to support professional sports.  But critics say he's slipped just such a proposal into the ballpark financing plan he released earlier this week.    The governor's package would plow a portion of the sales and income taxes generated at new Minnesota Twins and Vikings stadiums right back into the facilities' construction costs.  Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports.

Critics say Pawlenty's stadium plan involves taxpayer cash

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