but union busting. 15 state senators are boycotting. governors across the country are watching the budget battle very cleesely. joining me now is eliot spitzer and ed rollins. do you agree this is about union busting? yes. i should have asked that question to ed. no, i ll answer for him. this is about altering the power that unions have had. democratic legislators, wisconsin has been a state for 50 years, has had these kinds of rights. they have basically gotten great advantages, i think the governor feels he has to bring them back to earth and basically beg the cuts this year, and make the adjustments early on. had the governor done this more diplomatically and brought the unions to the table to talk
in wisconsin, the tense political stanoff continues. demonstrators have filled the state capital. they say the bill is aimed at union busting plain and simple. over the weekend they faced off with supporters of the bill. the new republican governor says cuts are needed to fix a broken budget. as i said, union say the efforts to eliminate collective bargaining isn t about budgets, but union busting. 15 state senators are boycotting. governors across the country are watching the budget battle very cleesely. joining me now is eliot spitzer and ed rollins. do you agree this is about union busting? yes. i should have asked that question to ed. no, i ll answer for him. this is about altering the