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And the governor, home county, milwaukee county went big for the democrat against one of the governor s top allies in the legislature. republican outagamie county elected a democrat as county executive for the first time ever. then you have the supreme court race that we still don t fully know the outcome with joann kloppenberg 30 points behind with four weeks to go that it comes within a whisker of a vote. so people are catching on and as you indicated, rachel, they hear the foot steps so they are rushing through this legislation with little public notice, with sloppily putting together amendments, changing it from day to day. people don t even know what bills we re considering they change them so rapidly. what do you think is going to happen in terms of recall elections in your state? when do you think those will be and what do you think the results will be? well, it looks pretty clearly like they ll be in mid july and we feel very confident based on the last couple election cycl ....
Involved in this? let s be honest. the department of justice is an extension of the white house. the attorney general is an appointee of the president so in many senses this is a gut check moment for president obama. obviously he doesn t control everything that eric holder does but i would hope that president obama, who has been so hands off with so many of the state struggles not just in wisconsin but ohio, michigan, maine, and other places, would take a serious look at it. this is a time where the federal government is needed. whether joann kloppenberg is being cheated or not, whether david prosser won or not, the fact is that unless there is a federal investigation, unless the department of justice comes into wisconsin, this election will never be seen as a credible election by hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of wisconsinites. and that s just inappropriate. we need the federal intervention and the president should recognize that. senator larsen, what about the recall effo ....
David prosser and challenger joann kloppenberg you will remember that 14,000 votes were just suddenly found for prosser in waukesha county. state senators tammy baldwin and chris larsen are calling on u.s. attorney general eric holder to get involved. meanwhile governor scott walker, always on the offense, is suggesting that labor is trying to steal the election. i think it s pretty clear the big government labor union bosses that have been fighting the reforms in wisconsin now for the past month and a half i don t think are going to give up. they re going to throw out everything here and hope that somehow they can pull off what was pulled off with senator franken in minnesota. governor walker will testify on capitol hill this week. congressional democrats should prepare to grill him about his attack on the middle class. but of course it ll be a lot of cheerleading by the republicans as well. then there is the effort to recall state senators in wisconsin. one of the republicans who ....
Extension of the white house. the attorney general is an appointee of the president so in many senses this is a gut check moment for president obama. obviously he doesn t control everything that eric holder does but i would hope that president obama, who has been so hands off with so many of the state struggles not just in wisconsin but ohio, michigan, maine, and other places, would take a serious look at it. this is a time where the federal government is needed. whether joann kloppenberg is being cheated or not, whether david prosser won or not, the fact is that unless there is a federal investigation, unless the department of justice comes into wisconsin, this election will never be seen as a credible election by hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of wisconsinites. and that s just inappropriate. we need the federal intervention and the president should recognize that. senator larsen, what about the recall effort? i understand that the republicans are pushing hard to get rid of ....
The up swing right now, ed. i think if you look at where the election was during the primary where prosser was up by 55% and kloppenberg only had 25%, and over that time we fought him to a standstill where before everyone knew who prosser was. he was an 11-year incumbent speaker of the assembly where kloppenberg was a complete unknown. we fought him to a standstill where it was within 1% and may end up winning. it should be pointed out that a number of democrats won on the local level as well as far as city elections and county elections. good to have you with us tonight. wisconsin state senator chris larsen and john nichols, washington correspondent of the nation thank you. it s easy to scare people into thinking china is going to overtake the united states as the world s number one super power but there is one area in which we beat china by a long shot. that s next. homes all across america: we created the electricity that powered the alarm clocks and brewed the coffee. we heated ....