Thompson is the man in charge of running Bush's billion-dollar pro-marrigae initiative. Sure hope the rumors aren't true, or that would make him a marriage hypocrite, and we all know what that means...
This article is from 1998.
When staid Wisconsin Public Radio opened up its lines for public discussion of Thompson's surprising announcement last week, a large number of callers immediately raised the issues of womanizing and alcohol. This included a former Republican legislative aide.And this:
As Joel McNally stated on a TV discussion show the day after Tommy Thompson's announcement of a possible presidential run, one of the great failures of the state's media have been their reluctance to look into what those who have covered or operated on the Madison scene have long known to be the case about Tommy's personal conduct.
As a man of his word, McNally took up his own challenge in his column last week. It was not, though, the first time glimmers have surfaced in the media. The call-in show to which McNally alluded, where the first six callers all raised questions about Tommy's alleged womanizing and drinking, may well have been the reason his office immediately pulled back and said he really wasn't considering a run for national office. I once wrote that these allegations of personal misconduct were the real reason Tommy never stood a chance to be named VP nominee in '96. But that was buried in an "items" column like this.
