Green Bay, WI (WTAQ) – Six of every ten Wisconsin voters still disapprove of Governor Scott Walker’s job performance, a month after he abandoned his presidential bid.
But the Governor believes those numbers will quickly turnaround.
A new poll from Saint Norbert College this week puts Walker’s approval rating at 39-percent.
That’s two points higher than a similar poll from the Marquette Law School a couple weeks ago.
The Saint Norbert poll also shows two-thirds of voters believe Walker’s G-O-P presidential run hurt Wisconsin.
Sixty-two percent do not want Walker to run for a third term in 2018.
But Governor Walker, in Green Bay for the Manufacturing First Expo, says a lot of people didn’t know the state’s unemployment rate is 4.3 percent…. He also says the state is doing well with the number of Wisconsinites in the workforce.
State revenues are up and the tax burden is down.
Walker says his numbers were in the tank after Act 10, and he was the target of a recall.
But sharing the message of what the Act 10 reforms had done around the state led to winning the recall election by a greater margin than when he won the Governor’s office the first time.
The Governor says he will be much more visible around the state in the months ahead, getting the word out about how well Wisconsin is doing.
On another hot topic of the day…..
Governor Walker says he fully supports Congressman Paul Ryan’s conditions to become the next U. S. House Speaker.
He calls Ryan the perfect person for the job because of his brains and his desire to find common ground on issues that cause division.
