Walker hopes for fast start as Wis. governor
Gov.-elect Scott Walker hopes to get off to a fast start, declaring an economic emergency and calling the Republican-controlled Legislature into special session on his first day in office Monday to take up a series of proposals.
Walker, a Republican, will be inaugurated in a noon ceremony on Monday at the Capitol. He has made job creation his top priority and promised that in four years the state will have 250,000 more jobs than it does now.
A state Democratic Party spokesman says Walker is using the state's economic woes as a smoke screen to advance a partisan agenda to satisfy narrow special interests.
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