Scott Walker’s exaggerated record on jobs

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Uh oh, the national media are starting to notice that Walker's track record is BS. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scott-walkers-exaggerated-record-on-jobs-2015-03-20?dist=lcountdown … #wipolitics



Scott Walker’s exaggerated record on jobs

By West Wing Reports @WestWingReport

The Wisconsin governor’s job creation record—compared to the promises he made—has been less than stellar, writes Paul Brandus.
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Opinion: Scott Walker’s exaggerated record on jobs

Published: Mar 20, 2015 9:38 a.m. ET

By Paul Brandus

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker hasn’t delivered the job growth he promised.

Scott Walker has been compared to Ronald Reagan by both Republicans and Democrats—sparking hopes, and fears, that he’d be just like the Gipper in the White House. Great for the jobs and the economy, GOPers say. A deficit-busting enemy of the working man, counter Dems. Is he as good as some Republicans think and as bad as Democrats fear? And how has the Badger state’s economy fared under his leadership?

Walker crows that he’s a hardcore conservative who has rolled to three consecutive victories in a deep blue state. Wisconsin, after all, hasn’t supported a Republican for president since the Reagan landslide of 1984.

Impressive, though it’s fair to note that Walker’s wins for governor have come in non-presidential years—2010 and 2014—when lazy Democrats don’t vote. But independents do, and Walker has consistently done well with this swing group, getting 56% and 54% in his two races, and 54% in the 2012 recall vote. Those are consistent, solid margins spread out over several years, which suggests Walker’s appeal has staying power.

On a national basis, Walker is largely known as the governor who eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employee unions in Wisconsin—and then beat back a recall motion over it. It vaulted him into folk-hero status with conservatives, and Walker has been milking it for all it’s worth ever since—including one since-retracted claim that if he can take on Wisconsin’s unions, he can handle ISIS in the Middle East.

The win further emboldened Walker. Just last week he won round two in his fight against against big labor, signing a “right to work bill” that says private-sector workers don’t have to pay union fees if they don’t want to. The Governor called the measure “one more big tool” for attracting jobs to his state.

The fight versus Wisconsin’s unions has national implications. Walker argues that the rest of the country needs similar reforms; if he were to win the White House, a President Walker and Republican-controlled Congress would almost certainly move to weaken labor laws wherever they could, shifting power from workers to corporations.

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