Published : Sunday, 21 Oct 2012, 2:01 PM CDT
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Republican Tommy Thompson’s campaign said the Wisconsin Senate candidate sold stock in four companies for $38,000 because they have ties to Iran.
Campaign spokeswoman Lisa Boothe identified the companies Friday as Royal Dutch Shell; Rio Tinto, a London-based mining company; Schlumberger, a Houston-based provider of oil-field services; and Total Petroleum, a petroleum-marketing company based in Africa.
“He rid himself of them as soon as he found out they had any business dealings with Iran, no matter how minor,” Boothe said in a statement.
Thompson first mentioned the stock sale Thursday during a debate with his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin. He said he had sold two stocks that his stockbroker bought without his knowledge.
“I sold it, I sold it today,” Thompson said. “I found out today and I sold it today. I do not tolerate, I do not agree with anybody doing business with Iran – none whatsoever.”
Iran is running a nuclear program that it claims is only for peaceful purposes such as power generation and cancer treatment. But the West and its allies fear that Iran’s efforts to enrich uranium mask a pursuit of atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies.
Thompson’s stock sale represents a small fraction of his wealth. He told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he has at least $13 million in assets, plus more than $5 million in income since the start of 2010.
Thompson’s campaign has criticized Baldwin for taking nearly $60,000 in donations from the Council for a Livable World, which claims Iran poses no threat to the U.S.
Baldwin spokesman John Kraus noted that the group has also donated to Republicans in the past.
Recent polls show the race is a dead heat.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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