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Tommy Thompson: “People from all over the Midwest, all the way down to…”

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

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Tommy Thompson on Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 00:39

Tony Earl raised more money to increase welfare payments without requiring any kind of causal relation, any kind of response whatsoever. And so People from all over the Midwest, all the way down to Mississippi, were coming to Wisconsin to get on welfare reform. In fact, the New York Times was following several of those individuals and wrote stories about them. (00:39–00:46)

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Asserts that people from various states were moving to Wisconsin for welfare benefits.

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