Walker delivers on conservative issues. He has been tough and resolute despite massive pressure from the Left inside and outside WI.
He took on the Teachers Union and won, including no longer having the state collect union dues. He battled and won to get a stricter voter ID law. On March 9, 2015, Walker signed legislation making Wisconsin a right-to-work state.
Walker signed the 2011 state budget that de-funded Planned Parenthood.
In 2013, Walker signed a bill that requires women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound and doctors to show the women the image of the fetus.
Walker approved a two-year freeze of tuition at the University of Wisconsin System in the 2013 budget. In 2014, he proposed a two-year extension of the freeze based on expected cash balances for the system in excess of $1 billion.
Walker might win. If I recall correctly, his polls were generally negative prior to election day. Then Walker won.
——No Rep is going to win WI in 2016.
If we cut the heart out of their cheating operation we might have a chance.
The reaction from Republican lawmakers was outrage and the response was swift Friday following the Wall Street Journal’s bombshell revelations that the director of the state’s political speech regulator and the head of the IRS division accused of targeting conservative groups may have shared information about Wisconsin’s political John Doe investigation.
http://watchdog.org/228640/gab-irs-reform/
It’s generally assumed that WI is a leftist state, but Walker was elected three times, and the WI State Senate and Assembly are controlled by Republicans with the Republican margin in the Assembly being the greatest in 50 years.
WI has one Republican US Senator and one Democrat Senator. Their US congressional delegation is five Republicans to three Democrats.
Maybe WI Democrats sleep between presidential elections because at the state level and on the off years between presidential elections, Republicans are more than holding their own in the state.
How does a GOP presidential candidate tap into that latent conservatism?
Walker took on some unions. Those that supported his election, he left alone.
He created WEDC that has wasted millions of dollars and not produced jobs. The legislature removed him as Chairman last month. Not even the GOP defends the mess at WEDC and it is now in the hands of the D.A.
If you look at where Wisconsin is ranked nationally in new business start ups, 50th, private sector jobs growth 38th, 44th in salaries, something is wrong policy wise there.
Wisconsin is losing its middle class faster than any other state. In May Wisconsin lost more jobs than any other state.
This is why Walker has a 41% approval rating and it may go lower due to the attempt to repeal the open records law that just occurred.