Scott Walker has been in politics for 17 years, first elected as a Wisconsin State representative in 1993 and then to the post of Milwaukee County Executive in 2002, a position he still holds.
Walker: 'I was the original Tea Party in Wisconsin'
(CNN) – Unlike Republican Senate nominee Ron Johnson, the millionaire businessman looking to unseat Sen. Russell Feingold, Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Scott Walker doesn't have the luxury of running as an outsider at a time when veteran politicians are on the firing line.
Walker has been in politics for 17 years, first elected as a state representative in 1993 and then to the post of Milwaukee County Executive in 2002, a position he still holds. But Walker claims the same people who are "jazzed up" about Johnson are jazzed up about him.
Walker - who leads the Democratic nominee, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 53-42 among likely voters according to a CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation poll released last week - is trying to frame himself as a career reformer rather than a career politician, a fiscal crusader who holds office but isn't afraid to throw some elbows.
"When people ask me, 'How do you appeal to Tea Party folks?' I say: I was the original Tea Party in Wisconsin," Walker said. "Eight years ago we held recalls. We got rid of a county executive who had been in office almost since the time I was born."
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