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Tag Archives: Tommy Thompson
Smearing Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin Senate Race
A false and vicious TV ad attacks Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin for voting against “honoring the victims of 9/11.” The fact is, she voted to award three Congressional Gold Medals to honor the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Virginia and Pennsylvania. So what’s the ad …
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Pro-Israel Group Misleads Wisconsin Voters
A Senate candidate says a pro-Israel group is airing a “false” TV ad about her record and urges stations not to run it. The ad does mislead voters in some — but not all — of its claims: The ad says Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin called “terrorists who attacked Israel …
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Tagged Emergency Committee for Israel, Gaza Strip, Tammy Baldwin, Tommy Thompson
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Democratic PAC Revisits Old Claims
In ads airing in three states, a Democratic PAC repeats familiar, and misleading, attack lines — saying one Republican lawmaker voted to “essentially end Medicare” and another voted for billions in earmarks and turned a surplus “into a massive federal deficit.” The Majority PAC, a political action committee that aims …
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Tagged Eric Hovde, george allen, Majority PAC, Rick Berg, Tim Kaine, Tommy Thompson
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A Preemptive and False Attack in Wisconsin
A conservative group falsely paints former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson as a “champion of Obamacare.” In fact, Thompson criticized the new health care law at the time of its passage, calling it “the beginning of a government-controlled health care system.” Lately, he has called for it to be “repealed, replaced …
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Tagged Club for Growth, health reform, Mark Neumann, taxes, Tommy Thompson
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GOP Candidates Debate, Round 2
Summary Claims, facts and figures flew at the second GOP presidential debate of 2008. Not all were true. For example: Mitt Romney claimed he didn’t raise taxes when he was governor of Massachusetts, failing to note that he increased government fees by hundreds of millions of dollars and shifted some …
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Tagged adoption, Duncan Hunter, FairTax, global warming, GOP debate, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, taxes, Tom Tancredo, Tommy Thompson
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