Amazing that it went this far...

The man eliminated a $3.6 billion deficit in just 18 months without raising taxes at all.  He reduced the cost to the State in healthcare payments for State employees by asking them to contribute only 8% towards their coverage (compared to the 19%-28% that the rest of America pays), saving the State $489 million and the union workers at least 11% of their gross pay.  By eliminating mandated union membership for all school/university employees, he increased the take-home pay for every educational employee in the State by at least $380 a year (as long as they choose NOT to pay their union dues)... which 54% of ALL union members have done since 2011.

That last accomplishment alone should have won him the job.  In an age when the left is repeatedly calling for more "choice" in their lives, why is it acceptable that employment at a state university, public school or school district hinge on union membership?  From janitors to university professors, all had to hold a union card to keep their jobs.  More than 50% of all NEA members on the rolls in Wisconsin in 2010 have left the union since the "closed shop" laws came off the books.  No wonder the unions hate Walker so much!  Now, the unions can only bargain for their salaries collectively... no more contract debates regarding retirement accounts, or healthcare coverage.  What is THAT going to save the individual tax payer in Wisconsin when it comes time to pay their property tax?

Walker is hated for cutting the State education budget as much as he has... but the savings to the district tax payers means that if an individual school district needs to increase property taxes to keep their marching band in uniforms and riding buses to football games, they can increase local taxes accordingly without ADDING cost to the taxpayer.  In other words, they won't be paying the State AND the local taxes, as they were in 2009.  Now, they'll just be paying the local school taxes.

The man is a bona fide success story, and has been since he was elected.