Scott Walker

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What did Scott Walker do 10 years or 15 years ago with Act 10?

Well, I'll tell you what, uh, those of us that were following state policy at the time remember those just horrific scenes of the angry mob of progressive leftist protesters out there in Madison, Wisconsin, breaking into the state capitol building, trying to stop the people's business.

And of course, what was the people's business that day? It was Governor Scott Walker's huge reforms to protect taxpayers and get Wisconsin back on a solid footing.

Act 10 was a major package of reforms on labor policy, on fiscal issues.

Wisconsin at that point in time, Hugh, had a over a $3 billion budget shortfall, and Governor Walker came in with a great group of state legislators, men and women, who were ALEC members, and said, "We gotta do something differently as a state." And here we are now, 15 years later, after these massive reforms that gave local control back to school districts to make decisions about the benefits that they were giving to, uh, to teachers and other public employees, uh, made, uh, changes to the budget to make the budget sustainable.

But at the end of the day, it also prioritized hiring quality teachers instead of just the old seniority system.

There was a example I remember clearly of, it was a Wisconsin teacher of the year that, uh, was able to keep her job because of the, uh, tenure reforms that were part of Act 10.

You do everything you can to try to make sure of the ideology of an individual, but sometimes they disappoint you when they get on there.

But by and large, the judges that, for example, Scott Walker, who was governor for eight years, we've had eight years of Walker and eight years of Evers, the judges Walker put on the bench are overwhelmingly better.

So we're going to dive in, and in an individual case at a local county here, and I'm going to use this and justify extrapolating it statewide.

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He closed the season in the best form he's had this season.

And the Padre pitcher, now they may change this, but maybe Jason knows.

The last I saw it was Walker Bueller, right? Yeah.

Walker Buehler was a great pitcher for the Dodgers a few years ago, but he went to Boston and he was terrible and he wasn't that good for San Diego this year.

I mean, to even be within the margin of error in a state like Wisconsin I find very interesting because this is such a bad climate for Republicans.

Everybody remembers what happened to Scott Walker and his gubernatorial election.

Uh, so that's quite, that's quite significant, I would say, and there's still time, and Tiffany has been moving roughly in the right direction on that.

Now, let's go to New York.

Sort of an interesting political case study, comparative systems study.

How do we do what Indiana and Wisconsin under Scott Walker, and even Iowa under Kim Reynolds, has done? Mitch Daniels has a new book out, Impatience Is a Virtue, in which he looks back at his very eclectic, storied career, both in pharma at Eli Lilly, as governor...

Well, well, in the Reagan administration, too.

I shouldn't forget that out.

So they really appreciate the Ted Stevenses and the Dennis Hasterts of the world as just, like, guys who like to do deals.

Just like when Trump first became president, you know, I think the authentic view of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, and in some ways especially Pelosi, was that this was an amazing opportunity because Donald Trump was way less ideological than most Republicans, and Donald Trump was a guy who they knew personally from, like, New York circles and being around and doing things, and they were gonna be able to get him to sign bills in a way that, you know, Scott Walker or Ted Cruz wouldn't have done.

And, you know, I...

It's like I feel like this instinct serves Katie Hobbs well as governor of Arizona, to just kinda like be somebody who likes to hold meetings and try to work stuff out, but it's not...

Well, in town is the Young America's Foundation.

And we'll be talking with the leader of that, Scott Walker.

Scott Walker, as my utmost admiration, he's a two-time governor of Wisconsin who faced down unions who apparently wanted to kill him.

I don't mean they just vaguely wanted to do it.

I think they stormed their ramparts wanting to kill him.

Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WBAL.

All right, one of my all-time favorites, annual visit of, for a lot of reasons, Tom Giordano's show.

Former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker joins us with his group coming to town, coming to Philadelphia.

The bro tour that Trump did.

Well, in town is the, uh, Young America's Foundation, uh, and we'll be talking with the leader of that, Scott Walker.

Scott Walker has my utmost admiration.

He's a two-time governor of Wisconsin who faced down unions who apparently wanted to kill him.

I don't mean they just vaguely wanted to do it.

That-

Tom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHD

All right, one of my all-time favorites, uh, annual visit of, for a lot of reasons, Tom Giordano's show, former Wisconsin, uh, governor, Scott Walker, joins us with his group coming to town, coming to Philadelphia.

Because they realize this is a cultural battle.

You heard, uh, Scott Walker on the show say that... and his freedoms coming to Philadelphia to be a speaker at the Young America's Foundation event Their convention is in Philadelphia, so we're trying to reach them, get them on.

That is still unresolved.

That is still out there of what's gonna happen with this.