The incorrect number was also posted on the Florida Department of Health website.

From the Broward Palm Beach New-Times:

"The screw-up was first noticed by an alert reader who notified public radio WUSF, who then called the governor's office. The Florida Department of Health quickly corrected the mistake and posted the right number.

But for a while there, anyone who wanted to get pertinent information about the meningitis outbreak got an automated message that said 'Hello, boys; thank you for calling me on my anniversary' and then directed them to a menu of naughty options."

Scott is in good company: During his own term as governor, Charlie Crist's office accidentally posted a number that directed parents to "hot, horny girls" instead of the Florida KidCare hotline. Tim Pawlenty has also made the same mistake.

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But then came the disastrous third-place finish at the Iowa straw poll, and Pawlenty promptly quit the race. It's hard to blame him -- nothing says "loser" quite as much as getting thumped by Michele Bachmann. Not to worry, though, as he emerged not long afterward as a co-chairman of Mitt Romney's campaign, with a potential chance of becoming the vice-presidential nominee or at least getting a juicy Cabinet position.

One thing we know about Tim Pawlenty: He is not afraid to quit! Today, the Financial Services Roundtable, Wall Street's deepest pocketed and most influential lobbying organization, announced that Pawlenty is leaving Romney's campaign to  become its new leader, replacing longtime head Steve Bartlett. See ya later, Romney!

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Now the running mate is supposedly going to be former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (again!), I guess, again according to freak weather enthusiast Matt Drudge, who linked to a New York Times story that said Romney made his decision and basically strongly suggested that it's Pawlenty.

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According to Allen and Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei, Tim Pawlenty is definitely going to be the running mate unless the prior conventional wisdom turns out to have been correct and it's still Rob Portman. (It's probably still Rob Portman.) Romney's "team" loves that Pawlenty is ... a guy, who doesn't have anything specifically wrong with him. This is also why various pundits thought he was the "dark horse" candidate for the nomination, until it turned out that no one, anywhere, could come up with any reason to vote for Tim Pawlenty. He was also almost John McCain's running mate in 2008, but John McCain wanted to pick someone more interesting.

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“Gov. Romney wants to fix Social Security. He doesn’t want to abolish it or end it,” Pawlenty said. “Gov. Perry has said in the past that he thought it was ‘failed.’”

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In the end though, he explained, he ran out of money and finished behind both Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul in the Ames Straw Poll -- and that's simply just too much  poor fortune for any one campaign to bear.

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Both candidates attacked each other's political records (Pawlenty as governor; Bachmann in Congress) and as Kornacki put it, "her words were strong, but so was her delivery.. Pawlenty’s delivery, on the other hand, called to mind a hostage tape, a man saying words that he knows he has to say, but doesn’t really want to or know how to."

We thought you might want to see the clip of the most heated moment in the Iowa debate, via Mediaite: 

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That's why Mitt Romney, who skipped the slavery pledge, was fine with this one. What are the candidates pledging to do, exactly?

• Back an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment
• Defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court
• Appoint anti-gay marriage judges
• Make D.C. residents vote on the same-sex marriage rights they currently already enjoy
• Most fun: Pledge signers promise to "[appoint] a commission to investigate harassment of traditional marriage supporters." (Why not a SUPER-commission?)

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Pawlenty has made his "executive experience" and "results" as governor a centerpiece of his campaign, complemented by his eager adoption of harsh Tea Party stances that seem less than perfectly authentic coming from this mild-mannered Minnesotan. But recently, subthemes critical to his two most prominent rivals have been creeping into his self-laudatory discourse:

"We got one leading candidate in this race who's running away from his record. We got another leading candidate in this race who has no record. I'm running on my record. That's a big difference," Pawlenty said.

He continued: "Well I think when you want to think about making somebody president you want to know some things. You want to know what have they done, not just by flapping their jaw or giving speeches or offering failed amendments in Congress. What have they really done? What results have they achieved?"

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Pawlenty is at two percent in the latest Washington Post/ABC poll. The more he campaigns, the worse his numbers get.

Obviously desperate to get some press attention (despite the fact that more attention he gets, the less people want to vote for him), Pawlenty on Wednesday gingerly attacked Bachmann for her recently disclosed problem with migraines.

"All of the candidates I think are going to have to be able to demonstrate they can do all of the job all of the time," he told reporters after an event in Indianola.

He added: "There's no real time off in that job."

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Everyone is saying this Lexi St. George kid is the new Rebecca Black. Some are even saying that her song "Dancing to the Rhythm" is a better Ark Music Factory production than "Friday," which must be such a proud moment for her and her family.

2. Tim Pawlenty was just born this way

You know, leaving aside his feelings on Lady Gaga's talent  (which starts at 1:50), can we just discuss what it says about the GOP candidate that he is agreeing to interviews with a site called Glittarazi?

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Now is not the time to retreat from freedom’s rise.

That came just two sentences after Pawlenty announced his intention "to speak plainly this morning."

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Pawlenty is going up with ads in the first-in-the-nation caucus state starting tomorrow on Fox News with a buy just under $50,000 in the Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Omaha, Ottumwa, Rochester, and Sioux City media markets. The ads will run from June 23rd to July 3rd.

The ads won't help the essential problem: There's no reason to support Pawlenty over anyone else. The press loves Huntsman, the Tea Party freaks love Bachmann, the old school Tea Party freaks love Ron Paul, and the majority of voters actually polled tend to prefer Mitt Romney, the competent-seeming rich person they have all heard of.

But Tim Pawlenty ads will probably be pretty funny, so I welcome this development.

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"It's safe, it's fun and it brings attention to big issues," Espinosa told Salon, explaining that he  finds influences in direct action groups like the Yes Men, who target big corporations and political leaders with elaborate, politically driven pranks.

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Watch the incident here, and let us know in the comments below: Do you think this is an effective form of protest?

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On Monday, Slate's Dave Weigel captured Pawlenty's most recent obeisance at the altar of Ronald Reagan.

"When Ronald Reagan cut taxes in a significant way," said Pawlenty, "revenues actually increased by almost 100 percent during his eight years as president. So this idea that significant, big tax cuts necessarily result in lower revenues -- history does not [bear] that out."

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CNN's John King: Governor Pawlenty, answer the critics ... who say 5 percent every year is just unrealistic ...

Pawlenty: [T]his idea that we can't have 5 percent growth in America is hogwash. It's a defeatist attitude. If China can have 5 percent growth and Brazil can have 5 percent growth, then the United States of America can have 5 percent growth.

My colleague Joan Walsh memorably zinged this argument in her debate wrapup by noting that the difference between China and the United States is that "they're building a middle class, not taking it apart, the way we are."

But the problems with Pawlenty's comparison go even deeper.

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The former Minnesota governor tells CBS's "The Early Show" that he kept up his attack on the Romney health care program for Massachusetts in the debate among seven Republicans competing for the party's presidential nomination. On Sunday, Pawlenty had likened Romney's health care to the one pushed through by President Barack Obama, calling it "Obamneycare."

On Tuesday, Pawlenty said he didn't try to soft-pedal the issue in debate. Pawlenty did tell CBS he used the "Obamneycare" reference again "when pressed by the moderator." He repeated his charge that Obama used Massachusetts as "the blueprint" for the plan that he and fellow Democrats pushed through Congress.

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Everyone will gang up on Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney is the closest thing this race has to a front-runner, and the best way for everyone else to get some attention is to attack him. And he's easy to attack! He invented Obamacare, used to be pro-choice, and recently acted very proud of himself for still believing in climate change. He's also terribly unctuous and phony.

At the Fox South Carolina debate, the candidates were basically instructed to attack the absent Romney. His presence probably won't discourage anyone from going after him again.

Everyone will announce their plan to gut Medicare

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Over the course of the past few months and even years, God has sent signs and direct messages to each of these candidates encouraging them to run, presumably without telling them that he supports other candidates as well.

God may have further hedged his bets too. According to BuzzFlash, "Tim Pawlenty's 28-year-old wunderkind of a campaign manager, acknowledged that before he joined Team Pawlenty, he "prayed deeply" over his future path. Ayers concluded that God had "called" him "to a higher purpose," and that higher purpose is leading Pawlenty to victory in November 2012.

Meanwhile, God reportedly made it very clear that he didn't want Mike Huckabee to be president, "lest he take his focus off the much more important task of producing a series of conservative American history DVDs," reports Amira.

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