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Tommy Thompson: Political Announcement Coming In May (Wisconsin 2006 Alert)
WISC TV ^ | April 13, 2006

Posted on 04/13/2006 5:17:48 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said that he'll announce his political intentions at the state Republican Convention in Appleton in May.

Thompson, in a satellite interview from Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, continues to fuel speculation that he might run for governor again or the U.S. Senate, WISC-TV reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at channel3000.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2006; herbkohl; tommythompson
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1 posted on 04/13/2006 5:17:51 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued; Diana in Wisconsin

Guess the Green Team's reach-out program to conservatives, especially SE Wisconsin conservatives, is having a backlash among the idiots that run the "R"PW.


2 posted on 04/13/2006 5:22:15 PM PDT by steveegg (Sen. Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy's vehicles have killed more people than V.P. Dick Cheney's guns)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Please dont run unless you will be a head banging take no prisoners, throw them back over the border, firing one out of every 3 public employee,cut EVERY government program, sane kind of conservative. We have enough Rinos. Thanks in advance.


3 posted on 04/13/2006 5:22:16 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make The Call.....pitchforks and lanterns.!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; Southside_Chicago_Republican; ...

It would be nothing less than spectacular if Tommy Thompson were to run against Herb Kohl!


4 posted on 04/13/2006 5:24:25 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Bob Taft for Impeachment)
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To: samadams2000

Tommy has the permanent title of King RINO here in the land of cheese and beer. I wonder how many members of the Green Team will abandon Mark Green if King RINO makes a comeback, which would be highly ironic since many of those original members were bleating that since-departed-from-the-race Scott Walker was too conservative.


5 posted on 04/13/2006 5:24:35 PM PDT by steveegg (Sen. Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy's vehicles have killed more people than V.P. Dick Cheney's guns)
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To: steveegg

I'm still in mourning over Scott Walker's departure, but the idea of Tommy running for Guv again would send me right into Green's camp! One of the reasons the state is in such a financial mess is the management (or lack thereof) of TT.


6 posted on 04/13/2006 5:36:46 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Clintonfatigued

It's difficult for me to think about voting for someone with a kid's name. "Tommy"...really now, someone with that name just doesn't seem serious. Almost like "Jimmy".


7 posted on 04/13/2006 5:37:54 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: steveegg

I could stomach TT as Senator, but not CEO of Wisconsin.


8 posted on 04/13/2006 5:38:26 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: samadams2000
If his run as HHS secertary was any indictation, He's a full blown RINO

Obesity in America, with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Kelly Brownell, PhD.

Tommy Thompson’s Reign of Terror

U.S. Shocks with Promise to Back Anti-Smoking Pact (Tommy Thompson told journalists (WHO)) )

Tommy Thompson Floats New Tobacco Tax

9 posted on 04/13/2006 5:41:59 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1

Thompson is not a RINO although he was horrible as Secretary of HHS.


10 posted on 04/13/2006 5:47:41 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (A nickel bag gets sold in the park. I WANT IN!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I'm mourning over Scott Walker too but you gotta admit he was a little too green (no pun intended) to run for Governor after just being elected Milwaukee County Exec.

Who should have ran for WI Governor was state Rep. John Gard. A conservative Republican through and through.

11 posted on 04/13/2006 5:49:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (A nickel bag gets sold in the park. I WANT IN!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

"...although he was horrible as Sec of HHS"

Yeah, I especially liked him passing off the anthrax attacks on that Florida guy for drinking cow turd water.

Not his greatest moment.


12 posted on 04/13/2006 5:58:12 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You said "Thompson is not a RINO."

FOMCL

It would take alot for me to vote for him over Mark Green.

13 posted on 04/13/2006 6:14:13 PM PDT by madconserv (Jesus take the wheel- We Freepers can't do it all on our own.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

IMHO, if Tommy announces anything it will be to run against "Nobody's Senator" Herb Kohl. Kohl has been awoken from his normal state of stupor and has actually been CAMPAIGNING, already. I know! It's been an amazing thing to watch. Well, actually, his STAFFERS have been campaigning. Herb's still snoozing in a corner somewhere. *Smirk*

Tommy's not coming back down to a state level. After hob-knobbing in DC? Puh-leeze. He was a cr@ppy HHSD, but the MSM didn't crucify him, so your average schmuck will only know the good and not the bad that is Tommy.

He's just doing this to yank Governor Doyle's (D, WI) chain who he hates with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. :)

Brett Farve is yanking our chain these days, too. Seems to be a Wisconsin-Thang. *Rolleyes*


14 posted on 04/13/2006 6:20:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Watery Tart; KRAUTMAN; reformedliberal; Mygirlsmom; codercpc; s2baccha; ozaukeemom; PjhCPA; ...

"Tommy; The Opera." Ping.


15 posted on 04/13/2006 6:21:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I don't care if he's a RINO as long as he's not at the Lincoln Chafee level. A pickup in this state for the Rs would be devastating to the national Democrat party.


16 posted on 04/13/2006 6:23:32 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
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To: OldPossum
"It's difficult for me to think about voting for someone with a kid's name."
17 posted on 04/13/2006 6:23:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Don't like Gard. He has not been very conservative recently. He blocked some good legislation this year. Look at him closely, and you will find a RINO, I think.

I don't think Walker was too green to be Governor, just too poor, monetarily. He wasn't "just elected". He's in his 2nd term. And he is far more conservative than Green, who is a nice guy; but I wish that he'd stayed in DC. We need him there, and I don't trust Gard in his place.

I'm just so disappointed that Walker pulled out, and I can't forgive the RINOs of our Party who conspired to make that happen.


18 posted on 04/13/2006 6:25:17 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

"I'm just so disappointed that Walker pulled out, and I can't forgive the RINOs of our Party who conspired to make that happen."

I agree. I've been mourning the loss of Walker for the past few weeks. But, Cash is King and for whatever reason, Walker took the fall for the Par-tay.

Scarey, ain't it? ;)


19 posted on 04/13/2006 6:27:45 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Natchez Hawk
Not his greatest moment.

Even worse was his farewell speech to HHS when he said that he didn't' know why the terrorists hadn't poisoned our food supply because it would be so easy to do! Good grief!

20 posted on 04/13/2006 6:27:52 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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