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Candidate Profile:
Scott Walker
Office:
Governor
Party:
Republican
Address:
Post Office Box 100828 ,
Milwaukee WI 53210
Phone:
(414) 453-2010
Related websites:
Campaign Finance
Opponents:
Tom Barrett
James James
Tim John
Jim Langer
Mark W Neumann
Scott S Paterick
Campaign Web site:
www.scottwalker.org/
Biography
From candidate Web site
The son of a preacher, Scott Walker grew up in the small town of Delavan, Wisconsin and it's those small town values that make Scott the man he is today. Growing up, Scott's family didn't have a lot. Those lean times taught him to do more with less and he believes government should do the same.
According to Tonette, Scott's wife of 17 years, he is every bit as fiscally conservative when it comes to his personal finances. Scott drives a 1998 Saturn with 100,000 miles on it and packs the same brown bag lunch before heading to the office to save money: two ham and cheese sandwiches on wheat with mayo.
Scott's Brown Bag Guide to Government applies the same kind of small town values and common sense ideas he follows in his personal life:
1. Don't spend more than you have.
2. Smaller government is better government.
3. People create jobs, not government.
When it comes to serving the public, Scott Walker puts his money where his mouth is there too. From 2002 through 2010, Scott and Tonette Walker have given back over $370,000 of his salary to the county.
As Governor, Scott Walker will fight to get government out of the way and lower the tax burden so the people of Wisconsin can create 250,000 jobs in our state by 2015. His six point plan can be found at www.250000jobs.org.
The Walker Record
Scott Walker's government reform campaign helped sweep him into the Milwaukee County executive's office in 2002, after serving nearly nine years in the Wisconsin State Legislature. At the time, Milwaukee County was on the precipice of an organizational and financial meltdown; rocked by greedy politicians who had voted to allow themselves and hundreds of career bureaucrats to retire as millionaires at the taxpayers' expense.
Scott has kept his promise to spend the taxpayers' money as if it were his own, introducing eight consecutive county budgets without increasing the property tax levy from the year before. And Scott
Walker's record as County Executive has proven time and again, that greater innovation will allow us to maintain essential government services without sacrificing community assets that enhance our quality of life.
Here are just a few of Scott's accomplishments as County Executive:
Ready to Lead
The state and national political environment today is very similar to Milwaukee County in 2002. Taxes are too high, government spending is out of control, and corruption and incompetence run rampant.
Scott Walker is uniquely qualified to lead Wisconsin's troubled state government back to fiscal sanity. As, a former state legislator and the Chief Executive of the state's largest county, Scott knows what must be done to put Wisconsin government back on the side of the people and he's willing to stand up against the entrenched special interests to do it.
Wisconsin Public Radio & Television coverage
Listen to Scott Walker on Joy Cardin
Watch Scott Walker on Here & Now
Listen to Scott Walker on At Issue with Ben Merens
Related Wisconsin News Headlines
Lack of primary gives Barrett big cash edge over Walker (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Walker, Neumann start targeting each other in ads (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Barrett, Walker plans would add workers to health pool (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
GOP candidates take stand in Superior (Superior Daily Telegram)
Scott Walker, Mark Neumann differ in key ways (Isthmus: The Daily Page)