Wisconsin’s Walker Now Shares with Christie Unwelcome Attention

Scott Walker’s status as a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate was growing as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s was sinking amid the furor raised by politically motivated lane closings and traffic jams.

Now Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is bedeviled by home-grown trouble that could complicate a 2016 White House bid, as well as his own November re-election race. The turmoil buffeting him includes the release yesterday of e-mails from a corruption investigation involving his former elected post.