Panel in the Wisconsin State Capitol depicting government (via Shutterstock) With Gov. Scott Walker striding across more stages than ever, we decided to dissect his political body language in a series of slow- and regular-motion GIFs. The appearances range from his 2010 acceptance speech to more recent speaking engagements as he tends to a national donor base.
Gov. Scott Walker fell below fellow Republicans Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman, and Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, in a ranking of the 2016 Republican presidential nominees most preferred by Wisconsinites. In the question asked in a recent Marquette Law School poll, about 27 percent selected Ryan, 21 percent chose Rubio and 16 percent went for the state’s conservative governor, whose hobbling of public sector unions in the state and aggressive reduction of the state budget’s structural deficit in 2011 made him both a national commodity and a villain for the left. In fourth place, Chris Christie gathered about…
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker makes the perfect political candidate: He’s smart, articulate, nice-looking. He will doubtlessly run for governor touting his fiscal conservatism and his refusal to accept federal stimulus money. That stand might boost him on the campaign trail, but will it hurt or help county taxpayers? Walker won’t take any federal money that requires a local match. If he instituted that rule across the board, county government would have to shut down because matching other dollars is almost all it does. The 2008 county budget of $1.3 billion included just $250 million in local property taxes; some…
