Tommy Thompson

Quote, unquote

September 20, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

 “I'm building an organization, even bigger than when I ran for President." -- Tommy Thompson on his Senate campaign.

One would hope so, given how quickly that misadventure crashed and burned.

Klauser blasts Neumann; Isn't this where we came in?

August 23, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Jim Klauser writes a "stinging letter" to Mark Neumann, dutifully reported by the Klauser Klarion.

This has a familliar ring to it.

Could this be the same Jim Klauser who wrote a stinging letter to Mark Neumann last year?

Last time he was doing Scott Walker's dirty work. This time he's doing Tommy Thompson's, just like old times. And he's blaming Neumann for some independent advertising being done by the Club for Growth, which Klauser knows full well Neumann can't control.

Questions:

1. Isn't this where we came in?

2. This is news?

3. Isn't Herr Klauser, criticizing Neumann for being negative (when it's not even Neumann doing it this time) being a tad negative himself?

4 Who gives a shit?

Club for Growth attacks Tommy candidacy with negative TV spot

August 23, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Welcome to the Wisconsin Republican Party, 2011 style, Tommy.

WisPolitics.com reports:

A new Club for Growth TV goes after former Gov. Tommy Thompson, saying he's not "what we need in the U.S. Senate."

The spot opens with a picture of young Thompson as the narrator says he's been a politician since 1966, "But do you know his record?"

The narrator says Thompson supported "massive tax and spending increases" as governor and then plays footage of President Obama saying Thompson supported health care reform.

The spot closes with a more current picture of Thompson, 69, as the narrator says, "Tommy Thompson: Not what we need in the U.S. Senate."

The ad, which starts running tomorrow on Fox News in Wisconsin, comes on the heels of a CFG poll that showed Thompson would be vulnerable to attacks over his support for tax and spending increases and "Obamacare."

It's also the latest in a string of attacks from the national CFG organization on Thompson's expected Senate campaign.