walgreens. there s a way to stay well. let s say you re state government and you need to hire a company to run one of your state-owned power plants. you don t want to run it yourself, you want a private company. what do you do? if you are a fiscally responsible government you invite companies to bid on the contract. here is how it works. company a says i ll do it for $10, company b says $9. and they come back and on and on until the contract is given to the lowest bidder giving the state the best possible deal. that s how it is supposed to go. hold that in your brain just a minute while we turn to the state of wisconsin, where this incredible thing is going on. republican governor scott walker and his fellow republicans are trying to dismantle almost all the unions for almost everybody who works for state and local governments in wisconsin.
a company to run one of your state-owned power plants. you don t want to run it yourself, you want a private company. what do you do? if you are a fiscally responsible government you invite companies to bid on the contract. here is how it works. company a says i ll do it for $10, company b says $9. and they come back and on and on until the contract is given to the lowest bidder giving the state the best possible deal. that s how it is supposed to go. hold that in your brain just a minute while we turn to the state of wisconsin, where this incredible thing is going on. republican governor scott walker and his fellow republicans are trying to dismantle almost all the unions for almost everybody who works for state and local governments in wisconsin. unions and lots and lots and lots of wisconsinites don t like this idea, they would like to
just $4.95. only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. let s say you re state government and you need to hire a company to run one of your state-owned power plants. you don t want to run it yourself, you want a private company. what do you do? if you are a fiscally responsible government you invite companies to bid on the contract. here is how it works. company a says i ll do it for $10, company b says $9. and they come back and on and on until the contract is given to the lowest bidder giving the state the best possible deal. that s how it is supposed to go. hold that in your brain just a minute while we turn to the state of wisconsin, where this incredible thing is going on. republican governor scott walker and his fellow republicans are trying to dismantle almost all the unions for almost everybody who works for state and local governments in wisconsin.
in other words, company a says they will do it for $12, and it is sold to the only bidder. so what s going on in wisconsin right now is not about money and not about closing a budget shortfall, it is about implementing a conservative wish list that stretches back long before walker was elected. joining us now, jr ross with wispolitics.com. thanks for joining us. no problem. how you doing. so governor walker s argument is the public sector unions are to blame for the fiscal crisis, they have to be weakened. he has been pitted in a battle against these very same unions for a long time, if i understand correctly. yes. sorry. say that again. governor walker has been pitted in a battle with these very same unions for quite some time as i understand. oh, yeah, i m sorry. go back, scott walker was county executive in milwaukee county for eight years before he became governor, he has been fighting
company a & company b in the indictment. those companies are mercury llc led by former republican congressman ben weber and the podesta group founded by tony and joan podesta who were hillary clinton s campaign manager. none will come as a shoe shock to viewers of this show. last tuesday we told you the mueller investigation is no longer a search for russian collusion in the 2016 race. it s now going into corrupt lobbying practices across dc one that is likely to en nature people close to hillary clinton. it s still framed as a hunt for collusion between donald trump s presidential campaign and the government of russia. our source says they re very interested in manafort s running of the trump campaign but it s bogus. the investigation has broadened to determine which people have