Posted on 04/04/2015 9:42:38 PM PDT by MediaMole
In an age when most potential presidential contenders are millionaires, Walker may end up being the closest thing to a middle-class presidential candidate that voters will see in 2016.
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He quit because there were better opportunities available to a person of his talents (a common enough story for people with talent).
John McCormack of the Weekly Standard:
When I asked Walker about his college departure last August, he observed that a local TV anchor had likened his experience to that of a number of successful entrepreneurs who left college early. "Once somebody tried to take a dig at me. Ted Perry, the anchor on Fox 6 in Milwaukee … he did this whole thing where he pointed out: What do I have in common with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Zuckerberg? All of them left in their senior year. Arguably, they did much cooler things than I did. I went to go work at the Red Cross. They started these amazing companies. But it’s the same principle. It wasn’t like getting kicked out or leaving early. I had something to do,” Walker said.
Actually, Jobs dropped out during his freshman year at Reed. Gates dropped out during his junior year. That's from memory, and I'm too lazy to look up the Zuck.
Democrats rue the day Scott Walker decided to clean up Wisconsin.
"Scott Kevin Walker (born November 2, 1967) is an American Republican legislator and politician who is the 45th Governor of Wisconsin. He is a two-term Governor, elected in 2010 and 2014, who also defeated an effort to recall him in 2012.
Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Walker attended Marquette University in Milwaukee but did not graduate. He started his career working for IBM before gaining a marketing job with the American Red Cross. At age 22, Walker lost a run for the Wisconsin State Assembly in a Milwaukee district in 1990. He won his next bid for the Assembly after moving to a more conservative district in Wauwatosa, and served four more terms in the Assembly (1993-2002). In 2002, after the resignation of Tom Ament as Executive of Milwaukee County, Walker won in a special election to fill the seat, winning the first of three terms serving as County Executive in Milwaukee County from 2002 to 2010.
In his first run for Governor in 2006 he dropped out before the Republican primaries. Walker again ran for the governorship in 2010, winning in a three-person race in the Republican primary. He faced Democratic nominee, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, in the general election; Walker won with 52% of the vote. After being sworn into office in 2011, Walker introduced a controversial budget repair plan which limited many collective bargaining powers for most public employees. The legislation led to significant protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol and an effort to recall Walker. In June 2012, Walker again faced Barrett in Wisconsin's only gubernatorial recall election. Walker defeated him for a second time, obtaining more votes than he had in the original race, with 53% of the vote. Walker is the only governor in the U.S. to date to win a gubernatorial recall election... Source
The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February involving at its zenith as many as 100,000 protesters opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill." Subsequently, anti-tax activists and other conservatives, including Tea Party advocates, launched small pockets of counter protests. The protests centered on the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, with satellite protests also occurring at other municipalities throughout the state. Demonstrations took place at various college campuses, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. After the collective bargaining bill was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on June 14, the number of protesters declined to about 1,000 within a couple days.
The protests were a major driving force for recall elections of state senators in 2011 and 2012, the failed recall of Governor Scott Walker in 2012 and a contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court election in 2011.
........Wisconsin was the first state in the United States to provide collective bargaining rights to public employees in 1959. Over the past decades public sector labor unions have grown from 10.8% of public workers being represented by a union in 1960 to 36.2% in 2010. Over the same time period, the percentage of public sector employees in a union shrank from 31.9% to 6.9%. This increase in public-employee unionism coincided with the granting of collective bargaining rights to public employees........"
That entire comment was referencing Cruz, not Walker, go back and re-read it again. If you still don’t get it, well, I’ll let others draw their own conclusions.
You’re talking about Prince Jeb?
He’s an insane douchebag who thinks he’s royalty.
Nothing good about him in the slightest
We can take a moment today and thank God to see so many decent candidates starting up in this election cycle. I mean, yeah, there’s bush, too but he won’t last long once reality manifests in the poll numbers.
Being a “millionaire” isn’t what it used to be. The term traces back to the time when the dollar was as good as gold - $35 per ounce. Some long-ago fat cat boasted that "someone who has a million dollars is as well of as if they were rich." But with all the inflation in the intervening years, that can hardly be said now, and at this point lotteries usually pay several--sometimes dozens--of millions of dollars.Memories Pizza got well over $3/4 million dollars - and although it makes them pretty comfortable, it doesn’t put them on easy street forever.
Good information for emotional voters!
Walker is acceptable and (ultimately) preferable over anything the Dems will put up.
Wish he wasn’t quite so malleable/flip-floppy on the issues - not because he’s any different from most politicians, but it’s low-hanging fruit for the MSM to use as a distraction and frame the debate. He needs to quit helping his enemies.
Cruz is far more preferable to me, but if Cruz can’t make it to the General and Walker does, I’ll have to vote for Walker in that scenario.
You’re right. Cruz may now be a millionaire, but he’s a self made millionaire. Just one more thing to admire about Ted Cruz.
So are a couple hundred million Americans.
Can’t we find one for president who isn’t pro-amnesty and open borders?
I like that Walker is a regular guy and he is as frugal as I am. I don’t like that he has only recently decided he’s for the rule of law and American sovereignty. He has not been consistent when it comes to the cheap labor invasion that is called immigration.
The GOPe wants another amnesty candiate.
Walker supported abandoning the rule of law with Comprehensive Immigration Reform previously, now he claims
he doesn’t.
Is he blocking for Bush and running for the VP spot?
We either draw a line and enforce our laws or we surrender our nation.
Ted Cruz is the only one running opposing amnesty.
Well, I guess it’s not clear whether you’re referring to the comment on Cruz or on Bush?
Everyone I know in Wisconsin has said, “What you see is what you get” with Scott Walker.
Yes if Ted Cruz is a millionaire good for him. He and his wife earned it. They sure did not inherit from his parents. Cruz said his parents had to declare BK at the time he was ready for college. So he had to take 2 jobs and $100,000 in student loans to go to school.
Plus being a millionaire on paper and having a million bucks in cash are two different things.
I would put Ted Cruz squarely in the middle class as far as his upbringing.
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush"Prince John” has a ring to it . . .
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