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Activists and the activists held a ton of events around the state and even poured money into the campaign. well now, a democratic campaign tracker has caught buck on tape in comments which might leave him with some explaining to do with some of his die-hard supporters. take a listen. would you tell those [ bleep ] at the tea party to stop asking questions about birth certificate while i'm on the camera? what am i supposed to do? >> well, buck apologized yesterday saying he was quote venting to the wrong person under the wrong circumstances. it isn't the first time, of course, opponents tried t...

Vehicles. >> neil: tell that to mississippi, though. i mean they're in -- 2,000 folks who don't have jobs will get them. >> it's good for mississippi but they're laying off. it's not all good news. workers are being laid off in california and unemployment is high. like it is in michigan. i'm not going to make make apologies for the union, i have straight teeth because of the uaw. wall street objects, they want to blame the workers and squeeze more out. toyota's going to pay workers less here and send profits to japan, why should we cheer about that? >> why is that something to cheer about. >> ...

Until that number starts falling in a clear and definitive way, i don't think people are going to feel good about anything. >> the high unemployment number does have an impact on people who are unemployed, because it tends to depress wages. if there is 9.7% unemployment, you don't have to pay people that extra premium to get them to work. the other thing i think will be difficult and mean the unemployment numbers look bad for a while, even as there is more employment, nor jomore job created, and people who had decided to withdraw from the workforce, are going to go back and look. that headline...

The unemployment numbers look bad for a while is even as there is more employment, more jobs created, people who had decided to withdraw from the workforce and had stopped looking for jobs are going to go back and look. so the number that we talk about, that headline unemployment number, will keep on looking pretty scary for a while. >> so when you look at the entire scene, with the black cloud part of the scene, what worries you the most when you look at the economy overall? what is out there that could undo the progress that we've seen? >> well, the first thing is we need to see hiring. busi...

In san francisco, the city is laying off 15,000 worker, most will have an option to be rehired to work a shorter week. mayor gavin newsom's plan is to reduce the budget deficit and shift the majority from a 40-hour week to 37 1/2 hours. it would cut their paychecks by more than 6%. plant is expected to save the city $100 million. a preschooler in boulder, colorado, won't be allowed back to his catholic school next year because his parents are lesbians. the denver archdiocese says their homosexual relationship violates the school's beliefs policy. archdiocese officials says homosexuals living...