Thompson Records Sent to Paper Mill.

Boxes of records from the Tommy G. Thompson administration ear-marked for the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison were destroyed instead. A spokesman for the state Department of Administration confirmed that the records which were stored at a state warehouse were inadvertently put on the wrong truck and sent to a Green Bay, Wisconsin paper mill where the documents were turned into a pulp. The records that were destroyed represented Thompson's gubernatorial career from January 1, 1987 through December 31, 2001. Preliminary investigation determined that about 100 of the boxes came from the governor's office and the rest originated from other undetermined state agencies according to a spokesman.