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Revenue, plus savings, of more than $150 million. >> representative mason, if the democratic senators come home, they will see an increase in funding in their locality. whats your response to the governor on that. >> my first response if he calls taking away peoples rights a tool one more time, i think theres a lot of people that are going to lose it. he has been talking about taking away peoples rights for the last few weeks and insulting everyone by calling it giving local government a tool. t...

Assembly democrats plenty of warning that we were going to vote that evening. so there was nothing illegal, unethical done here. we followed every single rule of the assembly. while some may not like it and people may not like the outcome, the fact is nothing was done wrong or unethical. for those saying that, it makes for good press, but it isnt reality. >> representative mason, what is the normal practice there? ive never seen anything like this. when we watch the house of representatives in t...

Them, and fact is, we cant afford them as taxpayers to repair their infrastructure. this is nothing new and we improved the process in the legislature. thats just another talking point from the democratic minority that is misleading. there was nothing done in the process that was unethical or illegal. >> representative mason, what do you make of a provision that allows this to happen without the solicitation of bids/ç >> look, the governor keeps talking about how he wants to run this state like...

And joining me on the phone, wisconsin senate majority leader, republican scott fitzgerald. representative mason, i want to get your reaction to the news conference today where the governor is basically saying that senator millers letter is bogus because what hes asking for is something that they already did over the course of the weekend. >> i think what the senate is asking for is for the governor to come to the table and actually negotiate, and negotiate in good faith, might find a resolution...

The governors repair bill. a lot of things we dont like. but we are looking for the governor to show a little leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. >> senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? >> oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. >> representative mason, whats your reaction to ...

But we are looking for the governor to show a little leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. >> senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? >> oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. >> representative mason, whats your reaction to the governors deadlines? >> i mean, after the day has com...

>> talk to corey mason right now and tell him what kind of negotiations you had with his democratic senate partners. >> lawrence, i prefer not to talk to representative mason. this is one of the guys who lost his mind in the assembly over a bill that they dont have the votes to kill. i will give him credit for debating it. the problem is you dont know who to negotiate with. you dont know if senator miller is the leader or the two others who show up once a week or the bomb-throwers on tv every da...

Prank phone call where he thought he was talking to david coke. a new poll out from the right-leaning wisconsin institute shows 65% of people in wisconsin want the governor to compromise with union workers compared to 30% who said no. as for the missing senators, 51% disapprove of him leaving the state and 47% approve. a statistical tie since the margin of error is 4%. corey mason whose colleagues in the senate have been in closed door meetings all day and on the phone, wisconsin senate majority...

Leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. >> senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? >> oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. >> representative mason, whats your reaction to the governors deadlines? >> i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to pressure people to ...

You are. you go ahead. >> okay. as we all know, theres pressure building in these peoples districts to return to work, unless youre lucky enough to be a democrat representing madison or dane county where almost everybody works for the government, the public is overwhelmingly against it. they are saying we pay you $50,000 to go to work, where are you. and we know there are recall campaigns launched against two of the senators. i would anticipate they would be returning shortly. >> representative ...