MILWAUKEE (AP) — A majority of Wisconsin residents disapprove of Republican Gov. Scott Walker's performance and are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the state, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin Survey Center's Badger Poll found that 59 percent of residents disapprove of the performance of Walker, who took office in January and wasted no time pushing divisive legislation through the Republican-controlled Legislature, including a law that stripped most public employees of their collective bargaining rights. [See Wisconsin union law finally kicks in]
The poll found that legislative Democrats, among them 14 state senators who fled the state to try to block a vote on the union rights law, aren't doing much better, with 48 percent of respondents disapproving of their job performance.
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