Tommy Thompson: “My father would give me $10 a day, $5 for gas.”

“In Elroy, my hometown. My father was so mad that he went out and started campaigning me. So that was the only way you. Could get your dad? My father. So My father would give me $10 a day, $5 for gas. I borrowed $1,000 from the bank of Bellroy and bought a $200 car that had 200,000 miles, a 19 1958 ford that had all the tires blew out during the campaign.” (27:05–27:10)

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