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>> it was underwater in the polls not long before the devos family started getting in there and really pushing it. >> as andy reports in the story, they did a bunch of polls o. a bunch of issues and found there was 7% support for right-to-work, thats why they went forward with pushing for that issue. and remember, theres money, power, and a lot of influence, political influence with the labor unions that was already there. its not like there was some sort of popular isnsentiment th was being ref...

1970, devos family members have invested at least $200 million on a host of right-wing causes, think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. they spent $44 million alone in michigan just in the past 17 years, and its borne fruit. the devos family helped make michigan a state synonymous with the power of organized labor a right-to-work state. crowell reports that, quote, like his father, dick devos jr. sees organized labor as an enemy of f...

shiny button just like this one and you knew if you pushed it, you could lift 900,000 people out of poverty just like that. youd push it, right? but hold on, theres a catch. what if by pressing that button, you might also be eliminating 500,000 jobs or as many as a million or none? and theres really no way of knowing until you push. in fact, you might not know until long after you push or you might not ever know. would you do it then? thats the question we have to ask when we debate wh...

Its no coincidence that the governor said 250,000 jobs, i think thats where he wants the new jobs to come from is from public employees. all of that being said, what marty said and ed said is momentum is on tom barretts side right now. i would rather it be tom barrett than scott walker and i feel good about it right now. >> when you look at the money, follow the money they tell us, marty. when you look at the out of state billionaire donor thats have supported scott walker, bob perry, shell don ...

people to get out and vote. tomorrow will be the recall vote. right wing governor scott walker when walker was elected in 2010 he promised he would focus on the economy. he said he would accuracy jobs but that was just a trojan horse. here is a secret tape of what walker told a donor last year. >> any chance we will be a completely red state? become a right to work? >> well, we can -- were going to start in a few weeks. the first step is were going to deal with collective bargaining fo...

conquer. he shocked the people of wisconsin and the rest of the state by announcing he would gut public unions. this sparked outrage and massive protest against wisconsin. democratic lawmakers fled the state in a bid to stop the bill from going through. protestors even occupied the state capital demanding walker back down. for week this is real life drama played out on live television. in the end, walkers republicans got the bill through in a couple hours. he was finally forced to tell...

i did ascesis on white of her company should share productions, which they were not doing at the time. i did the deepest which said it made economic sense. -- i did a thesis on why it made economic sense. there was not anything you could say i want to start here in move my way up, because it was a career people fell into rather than the planned for. i did not start immediately in arts management. i started in the business world. >> compares the kind of the arts we have available to us ...

is michael kaiser. >> michael kaiser, can you remember when you first got interested in the arts? >> i can exactly remember. i was four years old, my parents took me to see "the music man" with barbara cook and when she sang, "goodnight, my someone", she stood in the balcony of the porch of her home and all of the sudden you could see through the front of the house to a little girl playing the piano and i was captured by the magic of the theater. >> where did you live then? >> i lived ...

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