Tommy can’t clean it up

By Zach W On November 11, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Election 2010, Wisconsin Politics

Tommy Thompson for governor in 2010? Say it ain’t so!

Talk around political campfires this weekend is that Thompson is being asked often and is seriously considering a 2010 run for governor, no matter what any declared candidate says.

Clean it up. Tom Barrett gets that, though he seems a tad busy. Obama gets that. And so does Tommy Thompson.

I’d like to see our next governor clean up the mess that is our state budget, so that we don’t have these continual budget crises, but Tommy Thompson’s not the man for that job. After all, it’s thanks in part to Tommy Thompson that our state’s in the budgetary mess it’s in, as evidenced by a corrections budget that ballooned during Thompson’s tenure, thanks to the Truth In Sentencing laws that incarcerated more inmates for longer periods of time, resulting in the need to spend millions upon millions of dollars to build and then staff new prisons.

Tommy Thompson isn’t what Wisconsin needs to clean up our budget mess; I’m betting he’d only make it worse.

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6 Responses to Tommy can’t clean it up

Anon says:

November 11, 2009 at 7:44 am

Tommy Thompson would be better than Walker…and Neumann would be better than Thompson and Walker. However…I’m still waiting for Mayor Barrett to announce his candidacy. I want someone in office that I can actually stomach to look at and respect.
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ray says:

November 11, 2009 at 8:37 am

zach you hit a new low .the man left wisconsin 10 years ago and your still blaming him for diamond jims mess. more of the same old garbage from a liberal,liberals screw everythings up and blame the other party
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- Zach W says:
  
  November 11, 2009 at 6:02 pm
  
  Ray, I didn’t place all the blame on Tommy Thompson; I simply wrote that he’s partly responsible for the situation. There’s no doubt subsequent governors could/should have done more to address the fundamental flaws within the state budget process, but that’s another topic for discussion.
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Anon says:

November 11, 2009 at 11:36 am

If there is one budget I don’t mind ballooning…it would be the corrections budget…as long as we have competent people running things…which we don’t. BTW Zach…since when are truth in sentencing laws a bad thing??
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- Zach W says:
  
  November 11, 2009 at 6:00 pm
  
  Anon, I don’t think TIS laws are on the whole a bad thing, but I do think our state’s laws could be improved, if coupled with a more comprehensive effort to provide adequate support for individuals coming out of prison.
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Jason Haas says:

November 11, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Ray, you’re saying then that Thompson left the state’s finances in good condition? That he had no role in setting us up for fiscal disaster once he was gone?
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