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Right now is not about money and not about closing a budget shortfall, it is about implementing a conservative wish list that stretches back long before walker was elected. joining us now, jr ross with wispolitics.com. thanks for joining us. >> no problem. how you doing. >> so governor walkers argument is the public sector unions are to blame for the fiscal crisis, they have to be weakened. he has been pitted in a battle against these very same unions for a long time, if i understand correctly. ...

Political results will be if he has overreached or gauged properly sort of where the public is on this issue? >> if the debate is about public employee pay, pensions and healthcare, he wins that hands down. you ask any insider both sides, democrats and republicans tell you that the public is fed up with spending and pension and pay. they want to reign it in. you get to collective bargaining, thats a tougher issue. thats why youre seeing private unions come out and support the union forces. youre...

Up front. >> finally real quick, what the political results will be if he has overreached or gauged properly sort of where the public is on this issue? >> if the debate is about public employee pay, pensions and healthcare, he wins that hands down. you ask any insider both sides, democrats and republicans tell you that the public is fed up with spending and pension and pay. they want to reign it in. you get to collective bargaining, thats a tougher issue. thats why youre seeing private unions co...

Money wasting no bid contracts. in other words, company a says they will do it for $12, and it is sold to the only bidder. so whats going on in wisconsin right now is not about money and not about closing a budget shortfall, it is about implementing a conservative wish list that stretches back long before walker was elected. joining us now, jr ross with wispolitics.com. thanks for joining us. >> no problem. how you doing. >> so governor walkers argument is the public sector unions are to blame f...

In other words, company a says they will do it for $12, and it is sold to the only bidder. so whats going on in wisconsin right now is not about money and not about closing a budget shortfall, it is about implementing a conservative wish list that stretches back long before walker was elected. joining us now, jr ross with wispolitics.com. thanks for joining us. >> no problem. how you doing. >> so governor walkers argument is the public sector unions are to blame for the fiscal crisis, they have ...