Scott Walker Says He’ll Sign ALEC-Echoing ‘Right to Work' (For Less) Legislation | The Nation
"Plenty of Walker critics in the labor movement and the legislature expressed skepticism about the governor's temperate statements. After all, when one of his wealthiest supporters, Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks, had asked in 2011 about making Wisconsin a "right-to-work" state, Walker was caught on tape replying: "The first step is we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer." That did not sound like a man who had any qualms about signing anti-labor legislation.
Yet, throughout the high-stakes 2014 campaign, the governor stuck to his newly moderate line, presenting himself as a smart manager who wanted to get things right rather than the rigid ideologue he had been portrayed as during the 2011 conflict.
That was then.This is now."
