Walker ready with budget-cutting pen

According to Jeff Mapes over at The Oregonian, Senate Majority Leader Richard Devlin made it clear to guests of the Associated of Oregon Counties convention that no area of the upcoming Oregon budget "will come out unscathed," and that includes education.  And who is ready and waiting with her budget cutting pen?  None other than the senate education committee chair, state Sen. Vicki Walker. 

Walker ran in the Democratic primary for Secretary of State earlier this year against fellow senate colleagues Brad Avakian, Kate Brown and Rick Metsger.  When it came time for the Oregon Education Association to make their endorsement Walker came in a distant third to Brown and Avakian and walked out of the teachers convention ready for payback.  Apparently, with the projected $1 billion budget crisis now facing the legislature and an education committee gavel in her hand, such opportunity has surfaced.