Scott Walker (politician)

Scott Kevin Walker ( born November 2, 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado ) is an American politician and, since January 3, 2011 Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

Life

Walker studied at Marquette University. He did not finish his studies and started the Red Cross. Walker is married and has two children. He lives with his family in Wauwatosa.

Policy

Walker is a member of the Republican Party. From 1993 to 2002 he was a deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly. On November 2, 2010 Walker won the gubernatorial elections in Wisconsin to Democrat Tom Barrett. He resigned on January 3, 2011 in the footsteps of Jim Doyle.

In February 2011, Walker presented the state legislature of Wisconsin in front of a law providing for reductions in social benefits for state employees to contribute to balance the budget. Since the law also strong restrictions on the right contained on collective bargaining for the public sector unions, it came to Madison to protest against Walker with more than 10,000 participants. The Democratic members of the Senate tried to prevent by themselves deposed across the state line to Illinois for a vote on the law. In March 2011, Walker overcame this obstacle by having separated out the law restricting the collective bargaining law from the general budget law. This he handled the participation quorum required for budget legislation in the Senate and reached in both houses of parliament with the votes of the Republican members a majority. A complaint about an alleged procedural defect in the Senate resolution of the law to restrict collective bargaining rights for public employees ultimately failed in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Due to the limitations of the right to bargain collectively operated unions and Democrats a deselection process against Walker. To initiate good 540,000 signatures were needed. In mid-January, the organizers handed an approximately one million signatures, of which about 900,000 were valid. Wisconsin therefore voted on the deselection and a etwaig new governor on June 5, 2012. Challenger to the Democrats was as early as 2010 Tom Barrett. It was after the case against Lynn Frazier (North Dakota, 1921) and Gray Davis (California, 2003) until about the third method for the removal of a governor in U.S. history. Unlike Frazier and Davis Walker was the election. In the context of the presidential election in November 2012 the result in the U.S. was also awarded a symbolic character.