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Governor acknowledged it in a press call which was really stunning, to a group of reporters, he said, look, i know there's alternative legislation that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis in the state legislature to say, look, let's not roll over open meetings, let's not roll over open control, let's try to work something out with the local folks. i talked to the mine owner and he's not going to go for that, he pretty much needs the deal we talked about before. >> that was the deal we had to take. >> this is the amazing thing about democracy. if you're listening, you hold the power, voters of...

>> joining me now, ruth coneth. how did this even end up on their radar screen? that they knew to go into this town of 6,000 people and start throwing elbows in the local county board election. >> it's amazing to think these folks are coming in in a big way in such tiny local races. the people in iron county have been under tremendous pressure. there's a $1.5 billion project at stake here. the local county board has concerns. they have concerns that this mine might poison their drinking water and they have to make a zoning decision. what the koch brothers are doing is saying, this is not going...

Project a possibility? >> yes, and not only that, the governor acknowledged it in a press call which was really stunning, to a group of reporters, he said, look, i know there's alternative legislation that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis in the state legislature to say, look, let's not roll over open meetings, let's not roll over open control, let's try to work something out with the local folks. i talked to the mine owner and he's not going to go for that, he pretty much needs the deal we talked about before. >> that was the deal we had to take. >> this is the amazing thing about democra...

Americans for prosperity say they're trying to educate folks in iron county about the issues with these flyers. the issue being iron mining. a resource ex-track business. the koch brothers are in the resource extraction business. a spokesperson from koch industries told us no koch company has any interest or involvement with this mining project. this isn't the only area where they're working to influence an election. right now they're getting involved in a school board election in kenosha, wisconsin. they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a school board election in iowa in the past. bi...