Press Releases

March 19, 2010

What

MADISON – As former Bush Administration Secretary Tommy Thompson continues to weigh a run for U.S. Senate, there is one thing he won’t reveal – his client list with the large Washington, D.C. lobbying firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Thompson has spent the last five years as a Washington, D.C. insider cashing in for his work on behalf of corporate interests - including health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and the finance industry.

March 18, 2010

Thompson

MADISON – Bill McCoshen, health insurance company “Uber-lobbyist” and former aide to Bush Administration Secretary Tommy Thompson (R- DC) has been all over the place lately touting his former boss’s potential run for the U.S. Senate back here in Wisconsin.

March 17, 2010

Thompson

MADISON – As lobbyists and “lots of people in Washington” continue to push former Bush administration Secretary Tommy Thompson (R-DC) into the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, news reports yesterday indicate that the likelihood of Thompson running for Senate has dropped 20 points in just one week.

March 17, 2010

Kiss Me, I

MADISON-Scott Walker, who used his first television advertisement to deceive the public about the $50,000 pay raise he gave himself in 2008, now is using the St. Patrick's Day holiday to stand side-by-side a fat cat donor, a co-chair of his own finance committee, to mask his job creation shenanigans.

March 16, 2010

Inside Thompson

MADISON - Last week, Republican “Uber-Lobbyist” Bill McCoshen went on Mike Gousha’s “UpFront” TV program and all but announced that former Bush administration Secretary Tommy Thompson is running for U.S. Senate, saying “this is the most serious I've seen him.” McCoshen also said Thompson has “the right people in the room,” and “I'd want the people around me that he's got around him right now.”

March 16, 2010

East Coast Recyling: Phony

MADISON-Scott Walker's phony posturing is being exposed again with a story today that details the cynical underpinnings of the sham Walker "brown bag movement."

March 15, 2010

Thompson

MADISON – Eight days ago, while appearing on Mike Gousha’s “UpFront” television program, longtime Secretary Tommy Thompson (R – DC) aide and fellow health insurance industry “uber-lobbyist” Bill McCoshen, said that there will be an exploratory committee set up by Thompson before the end of March.

March 15, 2010

Pumpkin Farming Candidate Ignores Ag Issues

MADISON – In the five months since beginning his Senate campaign, real estate magnate and pumpkin farmer, Terrence Wall has failed to publicly discuss any plans to support and foster Wisconsin’s vitally important agricultural industry.

March 15, 2010

Neumann In Latest Bizarre Grandstand

MADISON-Perennial candidate Mark Neumann engaged in some more of his patented oddball behavior today in a bizarre grandstand at the federal offices of U.S. Rep Gwen Moore, where Neumann and a handful of his supporters dumped hundreds of "petitions," a majority of which were from people who claimed to live outside of Moore's district.

March 11, 2010

Six Questions Scott Walker Won't Answer

MADISON-On the day he debuts a television commercial that conveniently ignores the promise he broke by giving himself a $50,000 raise two years ago, Scott Walker today goes before students at his alma mater, Marquette University, to face questions.