Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110221:17:35:00
Jennifer granholm. i want to start off by painting a picture. during your eight years, brutal cuts. you cut bigger percentage of your state's cost than any other state in the country. you got rid of 25% of state departments, shut down 13 prisons, reformed pensions, benefit programs for public employees. why didn't michigan see the same kinds of protests and outrage that we're seeing in wisconsin? >> well, we were protesting, but i was protested against. i think every governor who does big cuts gets protested against but i didn't go after the collective bargaining. i went to them and bargained ...