right now is not about money and not about closing a budget shortfall, it is about implementing a conservative wish list that stretches back long before walker was elected. joining us now, jr ross with wispolitics.com. thanks for joining us. no problem. how you doing. so governor walker s argument is the public sector unions are to blame for the fiscal crisis, they have to be weakened. he has been pitted in a battle against these very same unions for a long time, if i understand correctly. yes. sorry. say that again. governor walker has been pitted in a battle with these very same unions for quite some time as i understand. oh, yeah, i m sorry. go back, scott walker was county executive in milwaukee county for eight years before he became governor, he has been fighting local unions there the whole time he was in office. he was swept into power after a scandal over a pension sweetener deal. came in as conservative trying to reign in public employee costs and public finances in
local unions there the whole time he was in office. he was swept into power after a scandal over a pension sweetener deal. came in as conservative trying to reign in public employee costs and public finances in milwaukee. a number of things between layoffs, furloughs, trying to privatize service by public employees, all kinds of things. in his mind, it is his idea to reign in the government of wisconsin to try to fix the finances of wisconsin. i am wondering if walker has a bit of a reputation as movement conservative. certainly he comes up in the circle. if that was the campaign he ran when he ran for governor, issues like collective bargaining were on the table when he was running for governor, or is this a bait and switch? he dropped some hints. he made it clear he was going after public employee pensions and try to reign in costs. he never ran an ad about i m going to end collective bargaining, almost every issue
time he was in office. he was swept into power after a scandal over a pension sweetener deal. came in as conservative trying to reign in public employee costs and public finances in milwaukee. a number of things between layoffs, furloughs, trying to privatize service by public employees, all kinds of things. in his mind, it is his idea to reign in the government of wisconsin to try to fix the finances of wisconsin. i am wondering if walker has a bit of a reputation as movement conservative. certainly he comes up in the circle. if that was the campaign he ran when he ran for governor, issues like collective bargaining were on the table when he was running for governor, or is this a bait and switch? he dropped some hints. he made it clear he was going after public employee pensions and try to reign in costs.