Walker’s basically been promising the same things for most of his career. What he did on: prisons, abortion, welfare, vice, the elderly, and more.
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When Scott Walker formally announces his bid for the presidency on Monday evening, he'll be promising "reform, growth, and safety" — basically things he's been promising for 20 years.
Walker is essentially a career politician, particularly in local and state politics; he spent a decade as a state assemblyman before becoming the Milwaukee county executive. Based on an extensive BuzzFeed News review of his legislative record, Walker's main priorities during those years were tough-on-crime politics, upping punishments for certain types of offenses, legislation to stop abortion and vice, and changing welfare policies in ways that fit pretty squarely under the "reform conservatism" banner.
He championed the sweeping Truth in Sentencing Act and "get-tough" measures for juvenile offenders. But he also pushed legislation like:
• Walker introduced a bill that would have banned prisoners and guards at state prisons from using equipment or weights for body-building or weight training.
• Walker introduced a bill that would have authorized "a chain gang work program in which inmates are assigned to work away from the grounds of the institution while joined together in a group by a length of chain," and allowed the Department "to restrict the recreation activities and privileges of an inmate who is in the program, subject to the constitutional rights of inmates."
• Walker introduced a bill to make it more difficult for juvenile offenders to petition the courts to expunge their records if the offense would have been a felony if committed by an adult, and would have raised the age from 17 to 21 at which they could attempt to do so.
•Walker introduced a bill that would have required the Department of Corrections "to charge prisoners for the costs of providing postsecondary educational courses or programming."
• Walker repeatedly introduced bills that would have eliminated or chipped away at laws against employment discrimination "based on conviction record," and allowed employers to fire or refuse to hire individuals on such grounds.
• Walker introduced a bill that created penalty enhancers for violent crimes committed on or within 1,000 feet of a school or school bus. The bill eventually became law.
• Walker introduced a bill that created a distinct penalty for abuse of a "vulnerable adult" resulting in death, and increased the maximum penalty for abuse of a vulnerable adult resulting in significant injury. The bill eventually became law.
• Walker introduced a bill that created a penalty enhancer for sentencing violent felonies committed against people age 62 or older in their residences, increasing the maximum sentence by up to five years. The bill eventually became law.
• Walker co-sponsored a bill that would have imposed mandatory minimum sentences, and eliminated the possibility of probation, for certain serious sex offenses (primarily those involving children and/or authority figures).
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