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Tommy Thompson

Rent to own

Rent-to-own push may finally pay off

By Bill Lueders | March 19, 2013

The rent-to-own industry seeks to get out from under the thumb of the Wisconsin Consumer Act. Of particular concern is the requirement that it disclose fees in terms of annual interest rate, which can run as high as 300 percent.

wisconsin democracy campaign

Tammy vs. Tommy: a spending tsunami

By Bill Lueders | December 11, 2012

The $78 million total adds up to more than $20 per vote, and more than doubles the previous record for a Wisconsin federal election.

Television ads

TV ads reviled, but effective

By Bill Lueders | November 13, 2012

Many voters insisted these ads had no impact on them. And some avowed that, when it came to them, the ads backfired. But Mike McCabe suspects these airwave-borne toxins are infecting the body politic “more than people realize or are willing to acknowledge.”

Money & Politics Column

Record spending brings little change

By Bill Lueders | November 7, 2012

Wisconsin’s status as a battleground state was reaffirmed in thousands of 30-second increments. The money flowed fast and furious. Yet all this spending brought little change.

Open Secrets

Baldwin-Thompson Senate race sets new spending record, led by outside groups

By Bill Lueders | October 26, 2012

Already these expenditures by outside groups, coupled with prodigious spending by the candidates, make this the most expensive U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin history.

Money & Politics Column

Congressional candidate cash on rise, too

By Bill Lueders | October 16, 2012

Jay Heck of Common Cause in Wisconsin says the huge and perhaps record-breaking sums now flowing into Wisconsin’s congressional races owe to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United.

u.s. senate

Outside cash flows to hot state races

By Bill Lueders | October 9, 2012

In Wisconsin, the thirstiest race for independent spending is between Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin for the state’s open Senate seat.

Wisconsin Senate race

Outside groups heat up Senate race

By Bill Lueders | September 14, 2012

About $8 million in independent expenditures by outside groups were reported through Sept. 13, putting the Wisconsin Senate race in third place among federal elections this fall, behind only the presidential race and a Senate battle in Texas.

Tommy Thompson

Tommy’s rich, but not a lobbyist

By Bill Lueders | September 4, 2012

If words matter, and they ought to, “lobbyist” is not the right one to apply to Tommy Thompson.

2012 elections

Outside spending, ideological divide make Wisconsin’s GOP Senate primary a tossup

By Michael Beckel (The Center for Public Integrity) | August 13, 2012

Thanks to $3.4 million in spending by outside groups and an ongoing ideological divide within the Republican Party, former Gov. Tommy Thompson — once the favorite — may not even make it through Tuesday’s primary.

Congressional races

Cash flows into state congressional races

By Bill Lueders | July 17, 2012

Cynical assessments that, when it comes picking national leaders, money matters most, are common. And sadly, they’re not unfounded. Take elections for U.S. Congress. Please.

Club For Growth

National Club for Growth gunning for Thompson

By Bill Lueders | September 1, 2011

The term “outside special interests” gets bandied about a lot, but the national Club for Growth is the real deal. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Club for Growth has distanced itself from the national group’s efforts to kneecap Tommy Thompson.

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