A former Wisconsin lawmaker says Gov. Scott Walker will have to work with the state Legislature differently than he has in recent months, since announcing Monday that he’s no longer running for president.
Mordecai Lee, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor of urban planning, told Wisconsin Public Radio Tuesday that Walker has been practically invisible since the spring, leaving Republican legislators to push through bills, like a controversial right-to-work law, on their own.
“I think we’re going to be seeing a conservative Republican Legislature in the fall session and next spring, wholly dissing this sort of lame-duck, on-his-way-out-the-door Scott Walker,” said Lee. “He’s really going to have to fight hard to get them to stay loyal to him and pass what he wants and not pass what he doesn’t want.”
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Lee said Republican lawmakers have a strong legislative agenda, and it’s yet to be seen what Walker’s gubernatorial agenda is and whether or not he’s run out of issues.
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