Washington Examiner: With Scott Walker In Charge, Wisconsin Keeps On Winning

June 7, 2017

Under Gov. Scott Walker’s leadership, Wisconsin keeps on winning. On his watch, the state’s unemployment rate has plummeted, jobs are growing, and more dollars are being put back in the pockets of taxpayers, not government. Governor Walker’s pro-growth policies are setting a clear example of how effective conservative leadership can get results, and the state is now on the right path thanks to his commitment of capable management and leadership.  

The Washington Examiner reports:

“Walker is one of a string of Midwest Republican governors in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and his state of Wisconsin who have run and won in traditional blue states in difficult elections and emerged as strong executives as the country battled itself out of the recession.It’s fair to say Wisconsin and Walker are a microcosm for what Republicans have done right in the past eight years in winning 1,100 down-ballot seats across the country. It may offer Republicans a model of how they either keep that majority or lose it.

According to Walker, as long as they continue to govern, the party will keep growing. ‘We did something really important in Wisconsin that Republicans more than ever need to know in Washington. And that is, we did what we said we were going to do’ once elected, he said…

When Walker took over at the state capitol in 2011, he inherited a state deficit that had expanded to more than $3 billion under Gov. Jim Doyle. Walker cut that to $1.4 billion by 2014…

Unemployment has dropped, labor participation is up and property taxes have been frozen or lowered since he took office.

Walker says his goals are the same as those espoused by his neighbors: strong education and technical training, paying attention to rural communities with access to broadband and social services, and reforming entitlements to get people back into the workforce.

‘We’ve just aggressively invested in things that build our workforce, and that’s made it easier for us to both attract and retain and grow current businesses,’ he said.”