Now its starting to show in poll after poll and some republican governors flat out could lose their jobs in 66 days. Were not far away. First up, pennsylvania, governor tom corbett is loued the oil industry to run amuck in his state and rolled back regulations and on fracking and gas drilling big time. There have been at least 106 water well contaminations due to the lack of regulation on fracking. In education, he let the Chester Upland School district go bankrupt. He sign a controversial voter i. D. Law. Corbett also thinks women shop at the grocery store. I thnk a lot of people want to walk into a grocery store, particularly a lot of women want to go and buy a bottle of wine for dinner, go down and buy a six pack or two six packs and go home rather than what i just described is at least three stops. Corbetts bad leadership will likely cost him his job. A new franklin and marshall job shows corbett losing to tom wolf by what . 25 points . Corbett knows hes in trouble so hes trying to do what, shake things up. After initially rejected Medicaid Expansion under obama care, he has reversed course. Starting january 1st, 600,000 uninsured pennsylvanians will have access to health care. Theres a 180 for you. Next up, we have our old buddy rick snyder in michigan. This guy orchestrated the city of detroits bankruptcy, his master plan was to gut and privatize as much as the city assets as possible. He has increased the city of the emergency city managers which most dont like and no problem circumventing democracy in order to advance his backwards agenda of privatizing everything. Hes attacked workers rights in the state of michigan bypassing a right to work legislation. Now snyders record coming back to haunt him somewhat. A new poll out of michigan shows that democratic candidate leading by two points. Then we have our old buddy scott walker in wisconsin. Where do you want to start with this guy . Walker passed radical antiunion legislation sparking massive protests in city of madison and cut 1 billion out of Public Education in order to balance the budget and rejected Medicaid Expansion. And a state exchange for obamacare, which was not popular. He promised jobs. Hes taken wisconsin backwards. His state ranked 37th in job creation last year. And far below the 250,000 jobs he said he was going to get started. Hes passed a radical Voter Suppression bill dragged out for years in the courts. Now he could be in legal trouble, well documented, Court Documents show he solicited donations for the Wisconsin Club for growth during 20112012. Wisconsin law prohibits officials from coordinating Campaign Activities with outside local groups and political groups. Now, walkers judgments has come into judgments time and time again and loves the wealthy donors. Ill tell you what, scott, once you crush these batters, ill fly you out to cali and show you a good time. That would be outstanding, thanks for all of the support and helping us move the cause forward. We appreciate it. We should do appreciate it. We appreciate that recording. New polling shows that walker is in trouble. Walker is leading mary burke by only three points among registered voters but among likely voters burke is leading by two points. Both are within the margin of error. Then we go to the bread basket of america, kansas, where Sam Brownbeck is in danger of losing his job. He signed into law one of the largest income taxes in kansas history. The governor has come under heavy criticism for shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to mod ral and lower income workers. Brownback lowered the top income tax rate by 25 . Real reaganism, right . The radical tax plan even caused moodys to downgrade kansas credit rating. The people of kansas are not too impress impressed. Paul davis has an 8point lead over the former senator from kansas. Finally we have mr. Private prisons, Florida Governor rick scott, one of my all time favorites. This guy has turned down billions in infrastructure funding that would have helped jobs and taken part in unprecedented and i mean unprecedented Voter Suppression and limited early voting days and tried to illegally purge hundreds and thousands of voters off the florida voter rolls. Hes a science denying republican in a state that needs to address Climate Change. Ask miami. After meeting with climate experts scientists told the truth about scott. One told think progress, i dont hon echtly believe the governor is climate literate and not particularly interested in becoming climate literate. Recent polls in florida show the governors race is simply too close to call. A rasmussen poll has scott up by one poll and quinn pea ak had Charlie Crist up by 3 points after scott spend 20 million trashing his opponent. Americans, according to the polls, are sick of the republican austerity plan. These governors who were the darlings of the republican party, they were the future and ones that were going to set the new course. They are in trouble. Governors are clearly not paying attention to people. American workers are not paying attention to this. They are not getting protected by these guys. They want new jobs. Easy access to vote be has been restricted and environment is being neglected. With these guys, you get no help across the board. This is why i think all of the chatter thats out there, its going to be a low voter turnout, nobody is excited. Really . If thats the case, then it really all comes down to mobilization, doesnt it . It really comes down to all of these groups that are grass roots that are liberal and progressive that have done the door knocking and social media, worked with labor. Its really their ground game thats going to be tested. That heart and passion and desire because if you look at these numbers, you cant pick one state. Its everywhere. Republicans are in trouble on a state level. These guys that went home and thought they could be heroes to the austerity program, its backfired on them. Get your cell phones out. Tonights question. Are americans fed up with radical republican governors . Text a for yes and b to no to 67622. Well bring you the results later on in the show. For more let me bring in mayor of lansing, michigan and adam green, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign committee. Great to have you with us tonight. Verge, i want your take, you ran for governor and called snyder out on exactly what he has done and now hes in trouble as far as the polls are concerned. What has happened in michigan from your perspective . Well, its like you said, the republicans have worn out their welcome. A lot of this was bait and switch. Rick snyder ran as a sort of moderate, a repeat of an old governor we had years ago and proven anything but. He like a number of other republican governors have catered to the right wing. Catered to the scorched Earth Society and the public, were now seeing it. Of course, a lot of it also is about the economy. Its like you were saying, the people at the stop are doing great. We as democrats have always believed and believe now that you build the economy and grow jobs and create opportunity by starting from the bottom up and middle out. They believe the old reagan philosophy, start at the top and take care of the rich folks and some good stuff might trickle down to us little folks down here. In michigan, were tired of being trickle down. I believe the people will rise up and mark is just getting started. The polls show Something Like 0 of people are just getting to know they are sure of who rick snyder is and thats becoming clear. Adam, your organization, the pccc has all over the country. If you had to put your finger on what turned against these republican darlings who thought they were going to be the answer for the future of the party, whats happened . What are people saying and paying attention to . Great question, ed, i encourage all vuters at home to mark november 4th on the calendar as judgment day. It will be the first time that voters in these republican states have a chance to cast a verdict on these republican governors that have declared war on working families. These governors have gone to work with working families, from rick scott to florida to scott walker in wisconsin, they have attacked unions and decreased taxes on wealthy and decrease the on the middle class and starved their state of federal funding to prove an antigovernment point. All of the governors have the worst jobs numbers in the nation. This is the moment for progressives to call out the vote and mobilize and get people to the polls on election day and cast the republicans out of office. Adam do you see go ahead. Im sorry. Its really robin hood in reverse policies. And i think people sense that. This socalled recovery, is really theres been very little recovery for midsle class and below. For folks at the top they are doing well. Here at michigan we saw tax cuts for the rich and tax increases for retirees. We see cuts to education and cuts to infrastructure. If youre going to grow opportunity for everybody, youve got to invest in education and invest in job training and invest in infrastructure. Roads and bridges are still crumbling and schools are still crumbling and detroit, maybe well talk about detroit a little bit. The bankruptcy there, the people still havent felt, regular folks have not felt relief. Theyve got to find an emergency financial manager in there managing the books. You know were seeing wall Street Solutions for main street problems but only working for folks in finance, not the folks on main street. The street lights still arent on, still problems answering 911 calls. For regular folks things are hard in michigan and they are tired of it. Adam, speak to that economic populism, you have touched on in the past, this seems to be the worm turning out there and waking up a lot of independent voters that maybe in the past voted conservative. Absolutely. Theres a Rising Economic populist tide in america that goes from Elizabeth Warren on the federal level to bill de blasio and governor races on the state level. What we have seen, voters are inspired by big bold progressive populist ideas, thats why its so significant they have declared war on every day day working people and mary burke in wisconsin, and Charlie Crist in florida, speak to Economic Issues that is a recipe for success on election day and make sure were doing the hard work to get people to the polls. Do the people get the obstruction that is taken place, adam . Do they understand how the wheels of government have been stopped by the republicans in the house . Well, that gets back to the idea of judgment day. These are governors that came to power at the high point of the tea party and what weve seen is the product of people who are antigovernment accidentally taking control of the government. And voters especially at the state level have seen it right in their back yards. We have continue to elevate this message in between now and election day, we must call out the vote and make sure every voter gets the polls and we win in these elections. Virg, what will get people out in michigan . I think its like you said, i think they are getting out. I think they are angry. Were going to do the work necessary, all of the organizations, were better organized than ever before. The state party is better organized but frankly its going to be because they are angry and upset. They deserve better. There was a bait and switch here. With all due respect to the governor, i tried to work with them. It is not sour grapes. He ran as a nerd, technocratic nerd to get under the hood and fix it but then maybe this happened in the other states, the guy might be, who knows. Maybe egs a moderate. But hes not willing to stand up to the luna tick fringe of the republican party. Regular folks dont care democrat, republican, tea party, but its got to work for them. They are not part of the deal. Education has always been a key part of the opportunity and education has been cut and Public Schools have been cut and teachers know it. Were not getting the tools and investments and infrastructure. The ultimate investment is in people. You talk about Capital Investments and things you can invest in and get a return from. The republicans understand that. What they dont understand the most important asset you have is your people. We arent investing in our people. Our people will take us back and bring us back. Weve got to invest in education and job training and job skills. They havent had it and know it and will show up on judgment day november 4th. Adam, were hearing more about Climate Change than the last election cycle. I dont know if that motivates people or not. But the republicans are definitely deniers, no question about that. Very few step to the plate and say its a problem and we have to do something about it. Will some move people at all or is that maybe too academic of a subject for people and more basic right to the economy . Well, i do think that particularly in states like florida, really hit with climate issues and climate denying governor, this will be an issue and there are people like tom stier and those making it an issue with substantial amounts of money. It speaks to larger mainstream versus not mainstream issue with the tea party fringe. Economic populism issues are number one on peoples mind. In wisconsin, pretty much they are ten out of ten the last in the midwest in terms of job creation in maine where we have a crazy right wing governor, 50 kt in terms of Economic Growth and those issues get voters to wake up and go to the polls on election day and boot the republicans out. Ed, the attack on teacher as pensioners, the republicans seem to ab who and resent the idea that anybody gets a pension. This has taken people out of poverty. The advances from organized labor, the attack on organized labor has been relentless and i think youll see the people rise up and fight it. Virg and adam green, gentlemen, great to have you with us on this Labor Day Weekend. Appreciate your time tonight. Remember to answer tonights question at ed show and facebook. Like us on facebook and wegoted. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand exposes a new book with a lot of allegations. First, conservatives criticize the president over his lack of strategy in syria. Congressman john garamendy joins me on that. 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I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. Conservatives jump on the president for his lack of a serious strategy. One way to describe what happened today and thats disaster. Shocked me. To have a press conference to say we dont have a strategy was really shocking given the severity of the threat. If that is true, dont say anything. What does he do now . Well, you bomb the bad guys. This was a an appalling display of a lack of leadership. Joining us tonight, john gara mendy. Your reaction to the president s comment yesterday about not having a strategy or plan for syria. Well, the syria situation is developing. We need to make sure we have allies working with us and the president will be meeting with nato next week. We know that kerry is headed to the middle east to try to rally support there. We have to have other nations in place and when that comes together with the military, which is now assessing the various options they have available to them, then there will be a strategy. And the president was being honest at this point, the strategy is being developed. It is not yet in place. And theres one other factor here thats really important. And that is that the war powers act is operating and congress is going to have to deal with this issue, yes or no and so the president needs to make sure that whatever the International Diplomatic program is, together with the military program, coincides with a congressional authorization. So yes, it is a strategy in development. It is not yet in place. The president is being honest. Which is what we ought to have from a president. So youre not troubled at all by the president s wording or phrasing of the situation right now, you dont think that damages his position on Foreign Policy at all . Well, if one were to really understand what is actually happening and what the white house and pentagon and secretary of stat