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Far. joining me now, rick badger, executive director of afscme council 40 of wisconsin. thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you. i wish it was under different circumstances. >> senator miller's statement says in 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in wisconsin. he also said tonight 18 senate republicans conspired to take government away from the people. where do you go from here? >> first off, isn't it breathtaking? it is just so incredible. and again, you're talking to a real, live wisconsin badger, a product of public schools, product of a public university, a...

And never thought i'd see a day like this. clearly the governor and republican leadership felt that they could never get public support behind this, which is why they went to this kind of a sham of a process, procedure. so we will go forward as senator miller stated. we will continue to fight. i believe now the wisconsin public, whether republican, democrat, independent, union, nonunion, see this for what it really is, taking away people's rights. and i can tell you one thing about wisconsin people. we understand fair play and have an innate sense of fairness. this is not right, this is not fa...

So we will go forward as senator miller stated. we will continue to fight. i believe now the wisconsin public, whether republican, democrat, independent, union, nonunion, see this for what it really is, taking away people's rights. and i can tell you one thing about wisconsin people. we understand fair play and have an innate sense of fairness. this is not right, this is not fair, and i don't think the wisconsin people are going to put up with this. >> rick badger, according to the e-mails we saw released yesterday, it looked as if the governor was very, very close to a compromise plan with th...