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Latest Fact-Checks On Tommy Thompson

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Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview:
"Wisconsin is not as obese as the national average is. The national average, 35.7 percent of the population is obese. In Wisconsin, it's closer to 26 percent."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 24, 2013
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 26, 2012 debate comments:
On support for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan  
Half Flip
By Dave Umhoefer • November 1, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 18, 2012 a debate:
Says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he "had nothing to do with" that provision in the law.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 30, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 18, 2012 debate comments:
Says when he was governor, "most of the Democrats" voted for his billion-dollar property-tax cuts, but U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin "voted against it."  
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 26, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 23, 2012 a television ad:
Says "Tammy Baldwin had the opportunity to vote to honor the victims of 9/11 and she voted against it."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • October 26, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 8, 2012 a TV ad:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin supports a "tax increase that President Obama says" would cost middle-class families $3,000 per year.  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 24, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 16, 2012 a TV ad:
Says Tammy Baldwin "voted to gut Medicare for seniors."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 21, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 5, 2012 a Milwaukee Press Club appearance:
Says opponent Tammy Baldwin ‘has had not one positive ad’ in the campaign for U.S. Senate.
Half-True
By James B. Nelson • October 15, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on September 27, 2012 an interview:
Says Tammy Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals."
False
By Tom Kertscher • October 10, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 27, 2012 an interview:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget "that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget."
False
By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on September 11, 2012 a speech:
"We have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 24, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on September 6, 2012 an email :
An aide "acted on his own" and "was not representing the Thompson campaign" when he sent an email criticizing the sexual orientation of U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin.
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • September 17, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on August 15, 2012 an interview:
Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a "completely government-controlled" health care system that goes "far beyond 'Obamacare'" and is "a Medicare system for all."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on July 22, 2012 an interview:
 "I have voted every year in Wisconsin."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on August 3, 2012 a TV ad:
Says U.S. Senate rival Eric Hovde "refused to pay his property taxes until he was taken to court."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 4, 2012 a speech:
"Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses" of smallpox vaccine and "I created enough" to vaccinate "every man, woman and child against smallpox in America."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 30, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 13, 2012 tweets:
Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 15, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 4, 2012 a speech:
By eliminating the public intervenor’s office, "I was the first one to fire Kathleen Falk."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 5, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 7, 2012 a television ad:
Federal health care reforms amounted to ‘the government takeover of health care.’
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • June 24, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on March 23, 2012 a campaign speech:
Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia."
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 19, 2012
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