T-Paw's Top Aides Not Getting Paid

The Washington Post reports:

At least five top advisers to former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty have been working for little or no pay for several months, a campaign source said Wednesday.

The news establishes with more certainty the emerging portrait of Pawlenty as struggling to keep up with the larger and better-funded operation of his main rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

It also raises the question of whether Pawlenty will have the necessary resources to compete in a long, state-by-state campaign against Romney as well as other GOP candidates who have better-established fundraising networks, including former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.).