Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that Walker was elected in the 2010 Tea Party revolt, a powerful reaction against President Barack Obama?s stimulus legislation, health-care overhaul and federal deficits. After proposing, fighting for and winning passage of Act 10, a budget repair bill that greatly restricted the organizing rights of public employee unions – and facing demonstrations of up to 100,000 people – Walker became “a poster child for that new face of the Republican Party,” Burden said.
Office of Strategic Communication