Marathon Pundit: Wisconsin not financially kind to Tommy Thompson

Former Health and Human Service Secretary and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson is not doing well in the national polls, he's not raising a lot of money, and tellingly, he isn't even bringing in a lot of money from America's Dairyland.

Whose fault is that? As for his inability to raise Cheesehead cash, he's blaming the media, particularly the state's most important newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

According to that paper, former Gov. Thompson was in Des Moines in front of 16 supporters. Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register, Iowa's most important daily, splashed this headline on page on that same day, "Ex-Sen. Thompson to mingle in Iowa."

Of course that Thompson is Fred Thompson, not Tommy, who presumably could attract far more than 16 people in Iowa's largest city.

But Tommy has the Journal Sentinel on his mind:

It's not (the Des Moines Register) that gets Tommy Thompson's goat.

He said that "negative stories" the Journal Sentinel has carried about his presidential quest have "dried up the money" in Wisconsin.

"I expected to come out of Wisconsin with the media behind me," he said, "raising the dollars so I could get through Iowa."