you better catch up. you are losing your protesters. caller: what do you think of the governor? i think the governor has an agend a. i think he wants to move forward with his agenda. he has done, the last month, he has been hard at work, i ll give him that. he has been putting forth bills that have been helping some of the budget woes in our state. but all in all, the budget repair, where the collective barg ang provisions are put in the budget repair address does nothing to help the budget. and that s the problem that we have. that s why you see so many labor unions out here. this is about honoring labor and unions. this is about the mere fact of workers and the middle class. it is not just we have private unions out here, we have firefighters. we are exempt from the bill. it s about respecting and honoring labor and making sure that our middle class continues to rise slowly.
Triggers to have a budget repair. senator, as a senator of wisconsin, how do you lead from illinois? how do you participate in this process? a lot of teachers and students you know are very frustrated right the now who want some answers. is it time to come back to wisconsin and deal with this? well, we have an elect electronic electronic world today. you can do business from anywhere in the world that you have electronic connection. that s how we do our work. have you reached out to the governor? we have been watching his statements carefully to see if he has made any move to reach out to the workers in the state of wisconsin and so far that has not happened. if he was a real leader, he would have done that long ago. but we re hoping that cool heads will prevail and make that overture. when do you plan on coming back to wisconsin? we are watching the situation
There s going to be at least one or two senators that comes back and allows us to quorum so we can moved forward. greta: did any one say i will come if and it seemed like something could you live with? yeah, we threw some ideas back and forth. i held my ground on the budget repair and said that s not negotiable. greta: what is what did they put on the table that might lure them home? they did touch on collective bargaining items. but they were rejected. there were other things that we talked about. the decorum of the senate when they come back. how are we going to proceed. how are we going to treat the senators once they return from illinois. we talked a lot about th. and then a discussion about is there something down the road empty budget debate that will continue through down the
Challenge the president are watching. is that aimed at sarah palin? when i made the comment it was in response to a question about governor palin. it means that deadlines pass up. whether or not they are relevant. karl rove imitates sarah palin in an interview, but another today is getting much more attention. actor charlie sheen is speaking out for the first time. people think i m insane and don t think what i say is true and i have no interest in their opinions. i really don t. good evening, scott walker is prepared to give his state budget address tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. whether or not the budget repair is approved bee the senate or not. reports emerged that moderate republicans may be ready to vote against walker s plan. the missing 14 democratic state senators would need three
From madison. good evening. good evening. greta: who went to this meeting? i got a call over the weekend that started a conversation about what did we need to do to get the democrats back into the chamber. we decided that it was time for us to have a face-to-face meeting. i was invited down to speak to a number of senate democrats. we had about a two hour meeting. it was cordial. we talked about a number of different issues including the budget repair and beyond that and the way we conducted ourselves once they made their way back to the capitol. it got the conversation moving, i thought. we went back and forth with some ideas. i think it was a good meeting. greta: i know was in kenosha, essentially right over the line into wisconsin. was there some sort of