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My last question to representative souter is why not let the unions keep collective bargaining and just have the politicians say no. you can all come to us but our answer is no. what's the problem with that? >> the problem is twofold. there are hundreds of bargaining units in wisconsin. it takes on average 15 months to negotiate a contract. i will remind representative barka last november when the democratic majority at that time tried to ram through state contracts they couldn't get it through a democratic legislature and governor they tried to ram it through couldn't get it through and then ...

Much more for benefits, i'm going to stand with the hardworking tax pairs of wisconsin. a coup of things came up over the weekend that i want to address. kwun is sfwr one is interestingly enough, the 5% to 7% we're asking for might be acceptable. that's an interesting development. a week ago, they were saying that's ununacceptable because their members couldn't afford to pay for that. and some of those same leaders tried to cram through last december a series of state contracts before we got into office, but after the elections. so it's interesting to see how their logic changes day by day dep...

Don't think is asking too much. we have 146,000 people that have lost their jobs in wisconsin in the last two years. we've had 60,000 foreclosures. you know, those people out there right now that are unemployed don't see this as a crazy tactic or anything. so you know, it's a little disinjen with uous that they'rew willing to negotiate. two short months ago in a lame duck session we were called in where democrats controlled everything. they tried to ram through state contracts at the end of session that gave zero towards health care and .2 towards their pension, not 2%, .2. >> got it. there ar...

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And this jury has helped me in a substantial step get to that point. from five years ago they took a conversation where i agreed voluntarily to cooperate with them, they would not allow a court reporter in there and took this and it was half a count actually because the first part of the statement the jury did not reach that same finding. but with regard to the second part it was in the context of do i track fund raising and who gets state contracts and i said i did not. and that is why they wanted to interview me and we will appeal that and i believe, you know, we have a very good chance to b...