For those of you in need of a good laugh...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.peshtigotimes.net/?id=12291


Dear Wisconsinites:

The next race for Governor is just around the corner. By now we have had enough of Governor Doyle. Even Governor Doyle has had enough of Governor Doyle. He has opted to scoot. A leader with a winning record doesn’t do that.

We know that it is time for a change. Now, I’m not saying that we have not had changes under Doyle and his followers. We have had plenty of changes. Here is what some of those changes have been.

When Tommy Thompson left office we had the lowest unemployment figures in the country. Seven years later, we now have the highest. Some change!

When Tommy Thompson left office we were a welfare reform leader and we stopped being a welfare magnet. Governor Doyle wants to return us to a welfare magnet. Is this the change that we wanted?

When Tommy Thompson was governor we not only had good schools, but we were able to restrict increases in property taxes by holding down teachers’ salaries to affordable levels with the QEO and revenue limits. And the teachers were not rioting in the streets. They knew that they had a governor who realized they needed job stability and the tools to teach.

The present governor had done everything he can to get around these sensible limits. The result will inevitably be higher property taxes. That’s a change we don’t need.

Speaking of taxes, under Thompson personal income taxes did not increase, sales taxes did not increase and corporate taxes did not increase. The lame duck Doyle administration will have to increase taxes because Doyle wants to raise over a billion dollars of revenue from you — IN THIS BUDGET ALONE. That’s a lot of change and we are the chumps who will have to come up with it.

When Tommy Thompson took office we were an absolute last choice as a place to do business. If someone suggested Wisconsin as a place to locate, the idea was good for a laugh. By the time Thompson left, we were known as the Star of the Snowbelt. That was a nice change for us. Who has opened up here lately? Certainly not one of the companies that have moved workers to other states. Companies and jobs are fleeing Wisconsin.

When Thompson left office we had the highest number of manufacturing jobs in the history of our state. Today we are at 1983 levels for those jobs and they are still declining. We cannot see the bottom. Is that the change that we wanted?

What we need and, in fact, deserve, is a governor who not only knows that “Forward” is not just the State’s motto, but that it is a way of thinking. We had this with Governor Tommy Thompson. We can have it again, and we should.

We don’t need to be led by those who will follow failed policies they created. We need someone with a track record. We need Tommy G. Thompson.

I support Tommy G. Thompson because his policies are not just theories. They have worked. He has a track record that we can trust and be proud of.

Uhhh.... no thanks.... I don't want that embarassing philandering perpetually drunk idiot anywhere near the governor's mansion ever again.

And another thing. Where was this guy the last eight years?

[Connonym]

1. the last 8 years

he's been hiding so people forget the SHIT job he did at HAHS

[Broca]

2. This LTE was

in a couple of other newspapers at least. Tommy got out while the getting was good and his brand of graft and corruption was still tolerated.