WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK; Thompson missing life less ordinary Final Edition

With [Tommy G. Thompson], you get the feeling he's never entirely joking. In a speech to a women's business group in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Thompson crowed, "For the first time in my life I'm making money!" He called himself a "rehabbed public servant." The...

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Published inMilwaukee journal sentinel
Main Author CRAIG GILBERT, KATHERINE M. SKIBA and DANIEL W. REILLY
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Milwaukee, Wis Journal Sentinel Inc 14.05.2006
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Baisden, Lauren
Bush, George (President)
Loke, Michelle
Sensenbrenner, Jim
Thompson, Tommy G
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Summary:With [Tommy G. Thompson], you get the feeling he's never entirely joking. In a speech to a women's business group in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Thompson crowed, "For the first time in my life I'm making money!" He called himself a "rehabbed public servant." Then he noted how humbling it is to lose your personal assistants, security detail and drivers. it's not just the jokes and the schtick that hint at how much Thompson misses politics and public life. In the same speech, Thompson avidly outlined a broad agenda for health care reform, from insuring the uninsured to preventive medicine. [Michelle Loke] received her award for conducting scientific tests to check for lead content in children's toys and launching a campaign to ban the lead-tainted toys from local toy stores in the Milwaukee area. [Lauren Baisden] was honored for her efforts with the statewide organization Fight Against Corporate Tobacco.
ISSN:1082-8850