Ed Thompson wins election for Mayor

Posted by Doug Craig at 4/2/2008 8:22 AM
Categories: Ed Thompson
 Ed Thompson wins election for Mayor



Tomah, WI – April 1,
2008 - Charismatic Libertarian Ed Thompson won Tuesday’s
mayoral election by nearly a two-to- one margin over incumbent Chuck Ludeking.  The
vote count was 970 to 494.

Speaking from his Tomah supper club, the Teepee, Thompsonsaid he found
about 50 dusty yard signs in a storage shed, leftovers from hisprevious
campaign for mayor in 2000.  Healso dug up four highway signs from his
Wisconsingubernatorial campaign of 2002. 

Thompson spent $10 for black and white paint to makeappropriate changes
to the highway signs.
He said, “I paid my handyman, Terry Waddell, another $10 to clean up
andpaint the signs.”   
 
Thompson referred to his frugal $20 campaign as a metaphorfor how
government should be run.  In hisprevious term as mayor he cut city expenses
by 13% while improving services tothe community.  

Thompson says that large expenditures should be decided inreferendum by
the people, not by a handful of city council members.  “The people
have been left out of thepolitical process at all levels,” he said.
“I want to change that.”

He went on to say, “We’re going to change government at
thegrassroots level.  I want to show thatlibertarian values are American values,
that we, the people, don’t wantgovernment bureaucracies meddling in
our private lives.”

Thompson also serves as Vice-Chairman of the LibertarianParty of
Wisconsin.

His 2002 Libertarian gubernatorial campaign made 3rd partyhistory in
Wisconsin when he got10.5% of the vote with only about 2% of the total
money spent on that election.

Thompson quipped, “Maybe I should run for governor again
some day, but it would probably take more than 20 bucks, maybe more
like a
couple hundred.”
 

 

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