Tim Michels in Wisconsin Senate Debate

On Civil Rights: No civil liberty violations via the Patriot Act

FEINGOLD: I found some things in [the PATRIOT Act] that were deeply troubling, opportunities for people to monitor your computer usage, to get into your home & your library records without any demonstration of a connection to terrorism.

MICHELS: We can talk about all these boogie men. There have been no civil liberty violations via the Patriot Act. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack in this country in over 3 years and 8 al Qaeda cells have been broken up because of the Patriot Act.

Source: [Xref Feingold] WI Senate Debate, in Journal Sentinel Oct 20, 2004

On Homeland Security: Give privatization one more chance after 9/11

FEINGOLD: Michels has to read the 9/11 report. We had privatized screening at the airports when those 19 Saudis went through with their box cutters & went into the planes & flew them into the World Trade Center. That’s the way that privatizing works.

MICHELS: Of course, it’s a great travesty what happened on 9/11-but because it didn’t work once, he’s like, that’s it, it’s failed, the government has to take it over.

FEINGOLD: Based on that logic, I suppose we should privatize our military, as well.

Source: [Xref Feingold] WI Senate Debate, in Journal Sentinel Oct 17, 2004

On Homeland Security: Privatizing makes security screening efficient and cheap

I would certainly look at in the future and when the time is right to privatize baggage screening. I think it will be more efficient and more cost effective. Source: WI Senate Debate, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct 17, 2004

On Homeland Security: I supported the war in Iraq and the world is much safer

FEINGOLD: We are better off Saddam Hussein is gone, but we are not safer.

MICHELS: I supported the war in Iraq, progress is being made and putting a democracy in place will make the Middle East and the world much safer. Osama bin Laden has his troops deployed in Iraq right now.

Source: [Xref Feingold] WI Senate Debate, in Journal Sentinel Oct 9, 2004

On Free Trade: I’m a free-trade guy, but need to fix agreements

I’m a free-trade guy. We don’t have a time machine to go back and fix the trade agreements. Source: WI Senate Debate, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct 1, 2004

On Homeland Security: Iraq is a reason there hasn’t been another terrorist attack

The Iraq war is one of the reasons that there hasn’t been another terrorist attack here in three years. Source: WI Senate Debate, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct 1, 2004

The above quotations are from Wisconsin Senate Debates: Russell Feingold (D) vs. Tim Michles (R), series of debates in October, 2004. Click here for other excerpts from Wisconsin Senate Debates: Russell Feingold (D) vs. Tim Michles (R), series of debates in October, 2004. Click here for other excerpts by Tim Michels. Click here for a profile of Tim Michels.
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