From the National Review:
If the GOP nominee is a sitting governor, journalists and party activists will want to know what issues they will be emphasizing back home with their legislatures in the coming year. Chris Christie, largely out from the shadow of his Bridgegate scandal, will be tackling the state’s public-pension liabilities, a state proxy for the federal entitlement crisis. Bobby Jindal will be plugging a $180 million annual deficit in his state’s budget, a test of his ability to cut spending. John Kasich will be trying to reduce the state’s income-tax rate as well as passing tougher regulations on charter-school operators.
But perhaps the most extensive agenda will be pursued by Wisconsin’s Scott Walker. Since he won reelection by six points in November, his aides have indicated he wants to continue lowering taxes, push to expand school choice, and replace the federal Common Core education standards. He also will try to have food-stamp and unemployment benefit recipients undergo drug testing, in part so they can show employers they are capable of holding jobs. As of now, he doesn’t plan any new dramatic assaults on the public-employee unions whose power he curbed in 2011 legislation.
That's all light-weight stuff he could have had passed and signed in the last month of the previous session.
He also will try to have food-stamp and unemployment benefit recipients undergo drug testing, in part so they can show employers they are capable of holding jobs.
(YAWN) He could probably get half the Democrat legislators to vote for that.
As of now, he doesn’t plan any new dramatic assaults on the public-employee unions whose power he curbed in 2011 legislation.
There it is. The most conservative WI legislature in a lifetime and he wants to squander it so that he will have an easier run at the White House. This is nothing more or less than political cowardice.