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= **__2012 Candidate Tommy Thompson__** = []

__**Video of an Interview with Tommy Thompson:**__
www.youtube.com/watch?v=32uMmVxyvWM

**__What Does He Stand For?__**

 * Recommended $200M for UN Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS (Nov. 2010)
 * Zero tolerance for guns, violence, and drugs in schools (Jan. 2001)
 * Immediate federal assistance for farm crisis (Sept. 1999)
 * He created a prison just for first time drug offenders to reduce the chance of more first time offenders or repeated offenders (Jan. 2001)
 * Believes we should create more power plants and more transmission lines (Jan. 2001)

__**About Tommy** **Thompson:**__

 * He is from Elroy, Wisconsin
 * Is a United States Republican Politician, long serving State Legislator in Wisconsin
 * 42nd Governor of Wisconsin from 1987-2001 and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001-2005
 * Was a U.S. candidate for the U.S. Presidential Election, but dropped out early after a poor performance in poll taxes
 * Republican Candidate
 * Political observers believe Thompson will win by a 21% voter margin

__**Quotes from Tommy Thompson:**__

 * "Build the roads and the jobs will follow" possibly referring to creating construction jobs or "roads" resembling entrepreneur's creating new jobs as somewhat of a pioneer standpoint
 * "Tax cuts are an investment in working families". In this Tommy talks about how reducing taxing for hard working families would make their lives easier and slowly raise the amount of money and increasing things they can afford such as a good education or extra money for extracurricular activities that would keep the children away from things such as drugs and alcohol.
 * "The president thing is bound to have an impact on every election," Thompson told Madison television station WKOW on Wednesday. "You know, whether you're democrat or republican. If you're standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's going to reflect on the down ballot."

__**Links to Articles of Tommy Thompson**__

 * www.tommyforwisconsin.com


 * **en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Thompson **


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