corporation. or you get the american coal industry launching its faces of coal website, where clip art stock photos of people are passed off as real live humans who support the coal industry and have faces. sometimes the most direct way to see through this kind of corporate funded pr made to look like real politics is just by looking at the fine print on the signs. that big pro-oil rally in houston featured signs carrying the fine print energy citizens . what s that? almost ungoogleable, if you persist, you find it is an organization created by the american petroleum institute. now, this weekend we got the same sort of corporate funded rent a movement thing going on up in wisconsin. and it is not just a pattern, it is like a template. they always do it the same way. here are the signs they were holding at the anti-union rally in wisconsin yesterday. they say stand with walker.
reach out. in terms of how this might end, what would you need to hear from governor walker or from the republicans in order to get you back? what are you waiting to hear? that s a really good question. first of all, we would like to hear they are honest and sincere in efforts to bring resolution to this. we have been very up front about why we are here and about what we would like to see changed in the budget repair bill or big state budget coming up now as well. there s a couple different ways to get out of here. first of all, you can take an amendment that the state assembly had on the floor to restore a lot of what governor walker wanted to take away from collective bargaining. the other option which seems to be the stumbling block is collective bargaining as a whole. they are not budging, we are not budging. take out that language in the budget repair bill, put it in the biennial budget and we can bait the next couple of months. people would be able to weigh in on it, done in
weren t saying, we are ready to go back. it is not up to us. it is up to the republicans to sit down, come to resolution over this. i talked to senator miller last night. we were frustrated last thursday night because we thought there was some sort of head way with governor walker and then the senate republicans thursday passed a resolution saying if we crossed state lines, we would be arrested, which isn t incentive to go back. we were surprised we were getting signs from walker administration that maybe we are going to move forward, but from the senate republicans, taking a big step back. there is a little frustration on that which led to the article sunday night. we are where we were from the beginning. taking it very much day by day. we continue to reach out. senator miller sent a letter to governor walker today and senator fitzgerald, asking them to come and sit down and talk things over. the response we got wasn t the warmest. so we continue to stay here, reach out. in terms of
to rally in support of their corporation. or you get the american coal industry launching its faces of coal website, where clip art stock photos of people are passed off as real live humans who support the coal industry and have faces. sometimes the most direct way to see through this kind of corporate funded pr made to look like real politics is just by looking at the fine print on the signs. that big pro-oil rally in houston featured signs carrying the fine print energy citizens . what s that? almost ungoogleable, if you persist, you find it is an organization created by the american petroleum institute. now, this weekend we got the same sort of corporate funded rent a movement thing going on up in wisconsin. and it is not just a pattern, it is like a template. they always do it the same way. here are the signs they were holding at the anti-union rally in wisconsin yesterday. they say stand with walker.
remember when his administration said protesters had caused so much damage to the state capitol that it was going to cost $7.5 million to clean up the horrible, horrible mess the protesters made and repair everything they had broken? walker s administration has now said that maybe that 7.5 million figure was a little high. they have since revised the cleaning estimate downward by 95.3%! i know. never mind!