Via The Weekly Standard:
One fact that doesn't appear anywhere in the lengthy Times piece: The reforms worked. Wisconsin taxpayers saved $3 billion dollars as a result of the budget reforms Walker implemented.
It's as if the reporters believe effective governance is irrelevant to electoral success. Or, to put it more accurately, it's as if the reporters believe effective conservative governance is irrelevant to electoral success.
Here's an alternative to the Times's narrative on Walker:
A reform-minded conservative, frustrated by special interests in his attempts to bring change to county government, implemented aggressive reforms at the state-level. The reforms limited the ability of those special interests to drive taxpayer spending further into the red. And, importantly, the reforms worked. Voters, no doubt influenced by paid media, recognized that fact and reelected him.
Perhaps the story isn't so much radical right-wingers bankrolling an ambitious politician who "always liked going to the extremes" as it is a rare example of a politician making good on promises made and voters rewarding him?
And perhaps an article that purports to elucidate "the reasons for Mr. Walker's success" ought to mention, at least in passing, that the reforms at the heart of his governorship and his imminent presidential candidacy, actually worked.Also read: New York Times Won't Reveal When Clintons Donated
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