One of my best friends told me this story about former Governor of Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson. Her husband, a member of the State Municipal Workers' Union, retired in 1989. He received a smaller check thatn he was supposed to get because Tommy Thompson had raided the State Municipal Pension funds and used the money to bail out Chrysler. The union kept trying to get him to relpace the money, but he refused. The union finally had to get a lawyer and take him to court. A female judge named Abarhamson presided over the case and the union won. A few months later my friend's husband received a big check and his proper pension after that. She belives that was in 1991.

Former Governor Tommy Thompson left Wisconsin billions of dollars in debt. He now wants to run for president. Just what we need—another big spender with tendencies to raid public programs in the White House.

Maureen Conboy
Rice Lake, Wisconsin
5 /19/2007