Scott Walker: What Went Wrong?

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National Review:

And how he can he make it right.

 

In January, when Scott Walker gave a speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit that shot him to the top of the polls, he was pushing at an open door. There was so much goodwill for him among conservatives that a merely creditable performance would probably have created a surge of support — and it did. On the strength of one good-but-not-great speech, he instantly became the hottest thing in Republican politics.

Fans of Donald Trump like to say of their man, “He fights,” and if there was one thing conservatives knew about Scott Walker, it was that he had fought and won.

 

Walker’s victorious battle with Wisconsin’s public-sector unions, which at one point had Democratic legislators fleeing to a motel in neighboring Illinois to prevent a vote on his reform bill, and which famously precipitated mass protests and a failed recall, was the most high-profile conservative political and policy success of the Obama era.

 

Walker entered the presidential campaign with that notch in his belt, and without the obvious liabilities of other highly touted candidates. Marco Rubio had badly hurt himself on immigration; Jeb Bush hadn’t run for office in more than a decade and had work to do to win over skeptical conservatives; Ted Cruz faced doubts about his electability.

 

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What's Going Wrong? Its September.

 

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Governor Scott Walker on Who is the Real Washington Outsider Candidate

Hugh Hewitt

Thursday, September 10, 2015

 

Governor Scott Walker talks about the campaign, explicating the kind of Washington outsider Americans are/should be looking for in a presidential candidate, the actions he would take on day one of being in office, and the current refugee crisis.

 

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Business leaders cool to Walker's union overhaul

 

Leaders at an association of big-business CEOs gave a cool reception to Scott Walker's campaign proposal for overhauling union laws, suggesting that such reforms are better left to the states.

"This is one of those issues that's been handled at the state level pretty effectively," said John Engler, head of the Business Roundtable and former governor of Michigan. "I understand Gov. Walker wanting to make a national proposal out of this, but frankly there are so many priorities at the national level and the states are doing good on this one, let them keep at it."

Engler, whose organization represents hundreds of CEOs, cited the passage of right-to-work laws in Michigan and elsewhere as evidence that Walker's plan for a national right-to-work reform should not be a priority at the federal level.

"I really would like to see Congress work on the priorities that only Congress can do," Engler said. "The states can't fix the federal tax code. The states can't negotiate trade deals. The states can't rein in regulatory overeach."

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business-leaders-cool-to-walkers-union-overhaul/article/2572057

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Business leaders cool to Walker's union overhaul

 

Leaders at an association of big-business CEOs gave a cool reception to Scott Walker's campaign proposal for overhauling union laws, suggesting that such reforms are better left to the states.

 

 

Of course they are. Contrary to the opinions of some Big Business loves big unions, and the other way around. Once CEO's figured out it made setting pay working conditions a lot easier.