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Have defied the order to leave the statehouse yesterday. maybe 150 slept overnight and half of them have now left and we've been inside and said that 75, 80 are still there and twice as many and three times as many law enforcement have moved out by the time the governor speaks tomorrow afternoon, tuesday afternoon to deliver the budget message, but the whole deadline thing is changing with the possible scenario of a democratic win which we can get back to the state fund and vote in a hurry if that were the case. >> mike taibbi in madison, wisconsin, in what could be an interesting piece of new...

Filibustering ended because the be republicans claimed they a parliamentary maneuver, it was legal for them to use to call a vote right away. so hastily that a number of republicans as well as many democrats couldn't get back in when the roll and vote were called. the vote is done. it's one step towards the final passage of the governor's bill which the democrats call an anti-union bill the governor called a budget relief bill. that consistently is huge. we've been talk become it for ten days. senate democrats are awol. they have gone across the illinois line to avoid there being a quorum. as ...

That indicates any other shared sacrifice and he talks about shared sacrifice a lot but the only people who seemed to be asked in this proposed budget are the school employees and other public employees. we don't think that's very fair and we're not happy with that at all obviously. >> here's a little bit more of his budget message, which was directed directly towards you have guys in the teachers union. >> i haven't gotten any cooperation yet from the unions in new jersey on any level. i asked the teachers last year -- you all remember this. we had to cut $820 million from aid to k to 12 educ...

>> reporter: house speaker john boehner raised the stakes by whipping up freestyle protests. he said this is undermining bipartisan efforts around the country. think this is just a narrow budget fight in one state? think again. >> some of what i have heard coming out of wisconsin, where you are just making it harder for public employees to bargain seems like more of an assault on unions. >> reporter: the president knows wisconsin is just round one in the battle for the budget message. he sent his outside political team to help build larger crowds. union officials are vowing to keep up the figh...

You're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions. >> reporter: the president knows wisconsin is just round one in the national battle for control of the budget message. so he sent his outside political team organizing for america to help build even larger crowds. and union officials are vowing to keep up the fight in key 2012 political battlegrounds. and this is beyond wisconsin, it seems? >> absolutely. it is beyond wisconsin. it is, quite frankly, throughout the country, whether in ohio, new jersey, new hampshire. yo...