Salon.com > By Scott Bauer http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wisconsin’s GOP warrior gov tones it down http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/wisconsins_gop_warrior_tries_to_lower_his_profile/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/wisconsins_gop_warrior_tries_to_lower_his_profile/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:12:00 +0000 http://http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/wisconsins_gop_warrior_tries_to_lower_his_profile/ MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Scott Walker became a conservative darling when, as a new Republican governor, he launched a bold -- and successful -- effort to break the power of public employee unions in his traditionally pro-labor state, and then survived a union-led campaign to recall him. Clearly, he was a man on a mission.

But now as Republican governors stake out a new array of conservative goals in the dozens of state legislatures the party controls, Walker has decided to lay low in Wisconsin. Instead of taking what many see as the next steps on a likely to-do list, such as making Wisconsin a right-to-work state or pushing tougher immigration laws, Walker is preaching moderation and calm. He has also backed away from proposals like eliminating the state's same-day voter registration.

"We're not going to do things that are going to bring 80,000 or 100,000 people into the Capitol," Walker told the Wisconsin State Journal shortly before the legislative session began. "It's just not going to happen again."

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