BuzzFeed - 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. Darren Hauck / Getty Images When Scott Walker formally announces his bid for the presidency on Monday evening, he'll be promising "reform, growth, and safety" â 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
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