What is it about Wisconsin governors? Tommy Thompson, now running for Senate, says in this video,
And then after 9/18, I was responsible for the public health of all Americans, responsible for preventing any attack using weaponized medicines like the plague, like smallpox, like anthrax, like tellurium.(btw we think we means "tularemia," the disease, not "tellurium," the chemical element.)
Thompson is running for the senate seat vacated by Herb Kohl. We know which side he'll be on if he wins (perish the thought). Reports The Huffington Post:
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, a current Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin, has accepted the board chairmanship at a Florida pharmaceutical company.
TherapeuticsMD, a Boca Raton-based drug company and parent company ofvitaMedMD, announced Thompson's appointment to the board chairmanship last week, touting his background at HHS, including his work in adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare during his tenure. Thompson, a former four-term Wisconsin governor who led the HHS during President George W. Bush's first term, has held a series of corporate board seats, primarily with health and drug companies since leaving the cabinet.
