The two likely exceptions from the conventional nature of this group are proposed Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, and proposed Education Secretary Rod Paige. Thompson has a genuinely impressive record in pioneering the right kind of work-based welfare reform in Wisconsin, albeit with much unacknowledged help and prodding from Wisconsin Democrats. And Paige has been a respected front-line education reformer as Superintendent of Schools in Houston, with a reputation for caring more about building high-performance public schools than in pursuing such conservative ideological shibboleths as private-school vouchers.