If my contribution will help keep this economic explosion going, then I'll be the first to open my checkbook. If I think favorable treatment is coming my way, that's impossible in Wisconsin because of competitive bidding that isn't influenced by the governor's office. That is supported by governmental audits. Understand politics, people. Thompson in office equals a better economy, and that's why businesses contribute money to his campaign, not for favorable treatment.
Influence is the life blood of politics.
Publish facts of wrong-doings, not innuendo. James R. Markusen Racine Journalistic attack won't sway public As the 1998 election season begins, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has decided that its responsibility lies not in reporting the news to inform the public, but creating the news to sway the public to vote Democratic. It has not worked in the past, and it will not work now. The Journal Sentinel claims that the governor gives state contracts to those who donate to his campaign. However, a 1996 Legislative Audit Bureau investigation into the state's competitive bidding process found absolutely no instances of Thompson manipulating the process.