Page 412 - Ed Schultz News Today

Peoples voice is heard. and it will be heard on election day. >> this is a day of infamy for wisconsin workers. tomorrow theyre second-class citizens, thanks to the republicans who took that terrible vote tonight. >> ed, when the governor initially introduced this budget repair bill, he described these changes to our collective bargaining law as a modest change. a small amendment to wisconsin law. one reason we left the state was because we knew very differently. and i think thats been demonstra...

100,000 workers in the state of wisconsin. but we are going to take this fight, and we are going to fight it out in every part of the state. >> thats right. >> and we are going to get the senate back. and we are going to make sure that governor walker in his radical agenda, that he has set to work against working families and the middle class, will not stand. >> you know, ed, people feel tonight angry and they feel betrayed. and they feel like they want to do something. and i would appeal to all...

A hundred -- a thousand workers in the state of wisconsin. but we are going to take this fight, and were going to fight it out in every part of the state, and were going to get the senate back, and were going to make sure that governor walker in his radical agenda that he has set to set against working families in the middle class will not stand. >> leanforward with veteran host ed schultz. dont miss "the ed show" right here on msnbc, the place for politics. >> elsewhere, severe thunderstorms ar...

The building. there are thousands of wisconsinites there. i have to say i was reminded most of those stories i read as a child of the minutemen, when they got the signal that something was awry, and they rushed to the town center. i saw parents bringing their children. i saw people driving up and parking as legally as they could, and literally rushing to the capitol. and many of them said they were coming to defend democracy. >> john, werent the democrats promised some kind of compromise, as neg...

I mean, this is what a lot of americans are wondering, if we dont get our oil from them, why would it affect our price? >> these are global commodities, ed. the price of oil in one part affects prices in other place of the world. this is a global commodity and its traded that way. you can ship tankers anywhere in the world, to houston, if you want, and get it in the u.s. pipeline. it does happen whats happening worldwide on oil and gas. >> even after bloomberg reported that weve got an 18-year h...

Lafollow ak, the one who inspired the people to stand up against the big-money interests of the 1910s and 1920s, to take back their government. now its time for there to be a new reform, a new taking back the government, a new commitment by the people of the state of wisconsin, that this government belongs to them. not to the big-money interests. >> i think, ed, too -- >> if thats the case. i want to ask senator miller, i have to ask this question, senator miller. there are several wisconsinites...

>> michael moore, award-winning filmmaker, and a man who has been generous with his time for this show. thank you for being here. >> no, thank you. keep putting that information out there. its so vital. you hear things on this show that you just dont hear elsewhere. thank god for ed schultz, for being out there from the very beginning on there. >> ed schultz was among the first people in the news media to identify the story in wisconsin. hes covered the story like nobody else. he is must-watch t...

Its just so grass roots. its so from -- and its scaring a lot of people in power. and it should. >> michael moore, award-winning filmmaker, and a man who has been generous with his time for this show. thank you for being here. >> no, thank you. keep putting that information out there. its so vital. you hear things on this show that you just dont hear elsewhere. thank god for ed schultz, for being out there from the very beginning on there. >> ed schultz was among the first people in the news med...

Damaged by the way that hes described this action, that the senate took tonight. and i think wisconsin citizens will be properly -- very doubtful about the way he characterizes his agenda, and the things he intends to do to this state, if he gets his way over the coming weeks and months. >> ed, i think that senator holmgren was kind. i think the truth is, our governor is a liar and hes been shown to be that. and that the republicans have been shown to be rubber stamp legislators. they are not go...

And i cant rule out anything that might happen in the future by the decisions of people who feel theyve been abused by their government. but the point is, that we need to change the faces of the people who turned their back on the folks who elected them. this is time to work at the ballot box, to stand up, and keep wisconsin strong, with the traditions that weve had for generations and generations, respecting people, respecting their work, an honest days pay for an honest days work. we need to f...