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Walker was not only illegally coordinating campaign expenditures in that moment, he was soliciting david koch's financial help from the governor's office inside the state capitol. you are not supposed to solicit campaign contributions from your public office. talking about the koch brothers in 2011 is starting to feel like talking about karl rove in 2004. if you care about progressive politics or even fair play in 2011, you really can't get away from the koch brothers. they are becoming way too ubiquitous. they come up in every political scandal, from wisconsin union busting and phony astro tu...

Effect. now that prank call gives governor walker a whole new headache. wisconsin state democrats filed ethics complaint over what mr. walker said to the guy he thought was david koch, or what walker said to the man he believed was the oil billionaire that funded his campaign, specifically raising ethical concerns about this part. >> the coming days and weeks and months ahead, particularly in some of these more swing areas, and a lot of these guys don't necessarily need ads for them, but need a message reinforcing why this was good to do for the economy and good to do for the state. so to the ...

Was surprised. i saw the quote from senator miller. and he wasn't saying anything we weren't saying, we are ready to go back. it is not up to us. it is up to theç republicans t sit down, come to resolution over this. i talked to senator miller last night. we were frustrated last thursday night because we thought there was some sort of head way with governor walker and then the senate republicans thursday passed a resolution saying if we crossed state lines, we would be arrested, which isn't incentive to go back. we were surprised we were getting signs from walker administration that maybe we...

Corporation. or you get the american coal industry launching its faces of coal website, where clip art stock photos of people are passed off as real live humans who support the coal industry and have faces. sometimes the most direct way to see through this kind of corporate funded pr made to look like real politics is just by looking at the fine print on the signs. that big pro-oil rally in houston featured signs carrying the fine print "energy citizens". what's that? almost ungoogleable, if you persist, you find it is an organization created by the american petroleum institute. now, this week...

Reach out. >> in terms of how this might end, what would you need to hear from governor walker or from the republicans in order to get you back? what are you waiting to hear? >> that's a really good question. first of all, we would like to hear they are honest and sincere in efforts to bring resolution to this. we have been very up front about why we are here and about what we would like to see changed in the budget repair bill or big state budget coming up now as well. there's a couple different ways to get out of here. first of all, you can take an amendment that the state assembly had on th...