Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor, braces for recall election, proclaims controversial law is working
Scott
Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin who is battling an effort
to recall him from office, told Yahoo News that his controversial law
that ended many collective bargaining rights for public-sector employees
and sparked protests from labor unions and their allies one year ago is
accomplishing his goal.
"You've literally had tens of millions of dollars of savings all
throughout the state just by allowing, through our reforms, by allowing
school districts to bid out their health insurance," he said.
"The law is working," he added in an interview with Yahoo News in
which he said he was able to close a $3.6 billion budget gap without tax
increases, massive layoffs, or cuts to Medicaid because of the
legislation.
Yet Walker's opponents hope the law will prove to be the cause of his
political demise. Labor unions and their Democratic allies gathered
roughly 1 million signatures, nearly double what was required, to get a
recall election on the ballot. Walker is expected to confront his
mobilized opposition at the polls in May or June.
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