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Back. ive explained to them here is what you have to do now to project your costs over the next several years to pay them back. its very difficult, a very difficult situation. ive been reelected three times. you have to be honest with the people and this is what the services cost. we have been burdened with a lot of legacy costs in scranton. we have to manage the city and the employees and make it work. martha: in so many cities across america the issue is the legacy costs, the pensions. we hear...

>> sean: and coming up tonight, employees of the cash-strapped city of scranton, pennsylvania, they got hit with a minimum wage pay cut. the unions are going after the mayor who says he is doing what he can to save the city. this is a democrat. dana perino and greg gutfeld are going to sound off next. president obama will not appear at the naacp convention. will it cost him votes with one of his largest voting blocs? su. and so too is the summer event. now get an incredible offer on the powerful...

We finally went to pennsylvania supreme court last year and we got an award. we won after 10 years of litigation so hes tied us up. this is nothing new with this mayor. hes been a real pain for us and its basically boils down to mismanagement and now hes using us as kind of a pawn to push council to push his agenda. and theyre providing the checks and balance like they should be and theyre not letting them get away with it. a 78% tax increase for the city would be crippling and now its just a po...

>> sean: and coming up tonight, employees of the cash-strapped city of scranton, pennsylvania, they got hit with a minimum wage pay cut. the unions are going after the mayor who says he is doing what he can to save the city. this is a democrat. dana perino and greg gutfeld are going to sound off next. president obama will not appear at the naacp convention. will it cost him votes with one of his largest voting blocs? [ manager 1 ] out here in the winds, i have to know the weather patterns. i upg...

"red eye," and it was like you smelled something bad. >> sean: you never invited me on the show i. i invited you so many times. >> sean: no, you didnt. >> ask him now. >> >> sean: let me go to scranton -- >> very rarely do we hear that. new york lost in the census 3.4 million. billions left new jersey before governor christie. wisconsin has a big battle and the mayor cant raise taxes and everyones getting paid minimum wage. >> this is tough medicine for everybody to swallow. what i admire is tha...

This morning. weve been covering that story over the past couple days. it is a stark reality. he is a democratic mayor of scranton who has pushed everybodys paycheck down to minimum wage, who work in the fire department, police department, and some other areas of the government. they have $5,000 left in the bank after the current payroll gets covered. >> it is so interesting because one of the sound bites i heard from the mayor yesterday of scranton, he mentioned he didnt have a money-printing m...

The beeping of a bus literally standing right next to me i will add governor romney today is down in, down in houston giving a speech to the naacp, a group he is not expected to do particularly well with he is making outreach to african-americans, anyway. similar sorts of efforts personally by the governor have not been made to try to recruit christian conservatives back in the fold. those looking for alternatives to a mitt romney candidacy during the primary season. so there is work to be done ...

Hazmat teams dont know about it until they show up on the scene. bill: okay. thank you, mike. martha: the mayor of one city is taking drastic measures. scranton, pennsylvania has been on the states distressed list for 20 years. this year the city face east $16.8 million shortfall. the mayor made the very unpopular move of cutting the may of workers to minimum wage to $7.25 an our. hes got unions for both the police and the firefighters planning to hold him in contempt of court to restore their p...

The citys. tomorrow i have to pick up the garbage. tonight the police cars are out there. >> republicans will look at the situation and say it is being brought on by the entitlement of government workers, unions are bankrupting cities and towns. democrats will argue this is why the federal government needs to intervene. they have to give states more help. make month mistake, the scranton story pitting a democratic mayor against unions, joe bidens hometown, is one republican couldnt have scripted...

Welcome back to "hardball." outrage in a pennsylvania city tonight as scranton mayor slashed his salary and that of other employees to minimum wage. $7.25 an hour. though hes pledged to pay back whats due to them, last fridays paychecks went out to police, firefighters and other slashed rates while the mayor and city council batting on how to fund the deficit. he wants to raise property taxes while the council refuses. today, an attorney for three unions vowed to fight the mayor. he is with me l...