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Tommy Thompson: “I knew more about the rules in the assembly than the speaker…”

Featuring: Tommy Thompson, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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One-on-one with Tommy Thompson | Cap Times Idea Fest 2024

Published | Video Starts at 31:41

And so my job was to stop the Democrat legislation. So I read the rule book. You became so good at it. I read the rule book forwards and backwards. I knew everything. I knew more about the rules in the assembly than the speaker did. And I used those rules of procedure to stop legislation. And the Democrats would want to get something passed and I would stop it. (31:41–31:46)

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Asserts that Tommy Thompson had superior knowledge of assembly rules compared to the speaker.

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