I haven’t done as much research on Walker, as many other FReeper’s have.
I do know Twitter is all a tweet over Walker’s supposed affection for CommieCore. On Trump’s feed there’s something about how WI universities have suffered, under Walker and something about why he left 1,000+ WI jobs on the table due to a political deal with the @paysbig Potawatomi....whatever that is.
I’m sure WI FReepers can correct, or add to, the discussion of the above. (Again...twitter posts may have NOTHING to do with reality....just letting folks know what is being said, regarding Walker/WI.)
——Walker’s supposed affection for CommieCore.
There’s a thread above noting that Walker line item vetoed a provision strengthening common core.
====This provision is unnecessary and would have codified assessment criteria in state law that are closely aligned with national standards I oppose and which local school districts should not be mandated to adopt. Ultimately, local school boards across Wisconsin should be able to determine what test they administer and what standards they adopt.===
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3316741/posts
——how WI universities have suffered
Walker has taken professor tenure out of state law and placed it in the Regent’s oversight. This will allow flexibility in closing miniscule programs (ethnic studies) that graduate less than 5 graduates a year. Many U W professors teach zero or 1 class per semester.
Since when it is a bad thing to reduce the power and of leftist academics?
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/perspectives/3-Reasons-The-UW-System-Should-Dump-Tenure-306254391.html
Walker has also frozen tuition increases protecting middle class Wisconsinites.
-——he left 1,000+ WI jobs on the table due to a political deal with the
His democrat predecessor gave the entire store to the tribes. Walker couldn’t break the terms of that agreement without massive losses.
=====As Governor Walker weighed his decision, the Potawatomi Tribe decided to withhold a $25 million revenue sharing payment to the state of Wisconsin.
The tribal compact negotiated by Governor Jim Doyle with the Potawatomi Tribe required a special kind of process be followed when disputes like this arise, and that process is called arbitration. Arbitration just finished up, and now, the state and the Potawatomi Tribe must draft an amendment to the original Doyle compact.===
I think #39 is all that anyone needs to understand on this subject at this time.
Walker does have weaknesses however and that is in a lack of consistent message. His attack on Trump and his flip flops on illegal aliens show confusion and inconsistency. Begging the pardon of those that love him but I am open to hearing a Walker supporter explain his sudden changes in positions. Trump attributes the changes to Walker’s big donors.
Trump went on the attack yesterday as a response to Walker’s unsolicited salvos. And now Trump is about even with him in Iowa where Walker had been holding a strong lead. Obviously Walker missed the shot but what else could he do?
Walker is in a jam on such matters. He’s got to get into the game to score. He can’t hold back. He decides not to get behind Trump like Cruz did because to do so would erode his lead in Iowa which happened nonetheless.
Trump is hard to overcome. The news media have already thrown everything they can at him and he comes out stronger. He even carries more vets now than McCain.
The reason Trump is emerging as the breakaway leader is because he reaches the low info voter better than anyone including Hillary. Then Cruz is taking conservatives, vets and yes Hispanic Americans and blacks and presto he’s far in the lead nationally ahead of everyone else.