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M & i banks, quick trips, things like that, one of our tools to help combat this oppresive governor. >> thank you, joe conway. i appreciate your time. you were a firefighter and of course not a part of the collective bargaining issue in the state of wisconsin but because you care for workers that is why all the firefighters and police officers are involved in this as well. assembly minority leader peter barka offered an amendment to have the assembly speaker jeff fitzgerald removed when the deba...

>> given the governors track record, do you think that he will fire public workers if they do strike? do you think hell pull a ronald reagan? >> absolutely. i wouldnt put anything past this governor. hes a vicious person. i mean, weve seen it the way that he ram rodded this bill through the senate, the assembly. he doesnt really care about the working men and women in wisconsin. we got to protect ourselves. the economic transparency. we got to know where the money is being spent from these corpo...

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The question comes up, what is an emergency? the governor could actually declare our finances in the state of wisconsin are a public emergency. will this make unions think twice before they go on strike? >> were fighting for our lives here. the governor has violated the law in the state of wisconsin. i dont think our workers are afraid of him. if were going out well go out but well do it in a fashion that protects our workers. we may do city by city, we may do general strikes throughout the stat...

Wall street got that. our teachers dont. they have to dig into their pocket and do it. i am very, very heart warmed tonight because i found exactly what i knew i was going to find here at maury high school. whereas the generation my mother taught in has long gone, there are still teachers who care. there is still an institution named maury high school that produces graduates year after year at a very high rate. there are still programs that help kids make decisions. you know, when i was going to...

School. just like we saw on this broadcast tonight how there were kids in wisconsin who were protesting as well. the subject matter was different but the passion and the concern and the love of country and the love of community, its the same. but weve changed. we think public education is something we can make as a bargaining chip in a negotiation. we can use teachers as political pawns. we can villify what they do. we can demean their health care and their pension and we can make them out to be...

With the public. >> it wont be just union workers but workers all over the state of wisconsin. >> absolutely. >> given the governors track record, do you think that he will fire public workers if they do strike? do you think hell pull a ronald reagan? >> absolutely. i wouldnt put anything past this governor. hes a vicious person. i mean, weve seen it the way that he ram rodded this bill through the senate, the assembly. he doesnt really care about the working men and women in wisconsin. we got t...

The energy to get those signatures. im going to bet you come monday morning many of these senators are actually at that point of being ripe for recall and this recall process moves quickly, ed. its not going to take forever to put these votes to the people. when that happens, we look at the possibility of control of the state senate and the restoration of a system of checks and balances in wisconsin. >> john nichols, i want to ask you one more question. if we can go back to that fake phone call ...

So if you think its just wisconsin, if you think its indiana, ohio, new jersey, texas, florida, its here. its in our back yard where i grew up in norfolk, virginia. its everywhere. we are at a crossroads in this country when it comes to asking ourselves the question and making a determination as to which direction we take. what do we think of public education? do we really value it? is it an american value? i gave a commentary on this program last week about my mother who was a teacher at granby...

Tucker also says wisconsin public workers can never be fired? it seems he forgot about the 12,000 state and local workers governor walker said that he would fire if the budget bill wasnt passed. tuckers dishonest union bashing fit right in on fox. check out the victory party on fox and friends this morning. >> well, the republicans came up with a plan. they said, lets take the money stuff out of it and then we can vote on it. and they did and they did and it passed. >> they are claiming now its ...