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Base for next year's election. it's important to understand that you can't look at all these states as one. the governor touched on it very well. this issue in wisconsin deals with whether or not public employees ought to pay in their health insurance program which they don't now and their pension prom which they don't. the unions agreed to do this. this has now become and president obama was right in his description of it, questionable whether he should have gotten init, but this has become an assault on unions and the ability to organize in wisconsin. i'm hopeful that the governor f-he's ser...

That the members of unions and public employees in wisconsin vote every year to validate their union participation. that is democracy. empowering the worker to make a determination as to whether or not they want to contribute these compulsory dues or not. this is what it's about. the labor unions want to lock people in as soon as they get a job where they don't have a choice. democracy is a good thing. >> harold ford look at the numbers from 2008 in wisconsin and the presidential race. this was a state that the president carried 56 to 42. a swing state. you wouldn't know it by those numbers. m...

Public employees in wisconsin vote every year to validate their union participation. that is democracy. empowering the worker to make a determination as to whether or not they want to contribute these compulsory dues or not. this is what it's about. the labor unions want to lock people in as soon as they get a job where they don't have a choice. democracy is a good thing. >> harold ford look at the numbers from 2008 in wisconsin and the presidential race. this was a state that the president carried 56 to 42. a swing state. you wouldn't know it by those numbers. more republicans certainly in th...

They can have fairness in the workplace and fairness in compensation. that is what's at stake here. it goes way beyond this budget issue. this governor of wisconsin is not setting out just to fix a budget he's setting out to break a union. that's a major move in terms of american history. i believe the president should have weighed in. i think we should all weigh in and say do the right thing for wisconsin's budget but do not destroy decades of work to establish the rights ever workers to speak for themselves. >> david, if i could just add. this is a campaign flyer i have. i don't know if you ...

Former congressman democrat from tennessee, harold ford and jennifer granholm who left the state house last month and will be joining us on a regular basis as a contributor to our roundtable. governor, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice have you here. there's so much to talk about and as i said at the top of the program from wisconsin to washington it is this fight about reining in government spending. look at this picture. the sea of red. union protesters in the rotunda in madison, wisconsin, over the move by governor walker to take on the unions in this battle. this is how the "new york times" r...