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Revenue, plus savings, of more than $150 million. >> representative mason, if the democratic senators come home, they will see an increase in funding in their locality. what's your response to the governor on that. >> my first response if he calls taking away people's rights a tool one more time, i think there's a lot of people that are going to lose it. he has been talking about taking away people's rights for the last few weeks and insulting everyone by calling it giving local government a tool. they said they are willing to make concessions but need to do it at the bargaining table. if the ...

Assembly democrats plenty of warning that we were going to vote that evening. so there was nothing illegal, unethical done here. we followed every single rule of the assembly. while some may not like it and people may not like the outcome, the fact is nothing was done wrong or unethical. for those saying that, it makes for good press, but it isn't reality. >> representative mason, what is the normal practice there? i've never seen anything like this. when we watch the house of representatives in the united states senate, they have a clock on those votes, usually about 15 minutes, and you have ...

Them, and fact is, we can't afford them as taxpayers to repair their infrastructure. this is nothing new and we improved the process in the legislature. that's just another talking point from the democratic minority that is misleading. there was nothing done in the process that was unethical or illegal. >> representative mason, what do you make of a provision that allows this to happen without the solicitation of bids/ç >> look, the governor keeps talking about how he wants to run this state like a business. i don't know any business that would sell off major assets with a no bid, without put...

And joining me on the phone, wisconsin senate majority leader, republican scott fitzgerald. representative mason, i want to get your reaction to the news conference today where the governor is basically saying that senator miller's letter is bogus because what he's asking for is something that they already did over the course of the weekend. >> i think what the senate is asking for is for the governor to come to the table and actually negotiate, and negotiate in good faith, might find a resolution on the bill that gets to the governor's fiscal concerns in the budget repair bill without taking ...

The governor's repair bill. a lot of things we don't like. but we are looking for the governor to show a little leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. >> senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? >> oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. >> representative mason, what's your reaction to the governor's deadlines? >> i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to press...