copper barons if one were in the market for the copper baron to support him? they re all over the place. there s not just copper barons. there s union barons, they re on both sides of the aisle. the race is between special interests. president obama was in boston last night and shared the state with massachusetts senate president elizabeth warren. she introduced the president, praising his work for financial reform and stick big the middle class. mitt romney wants to let billionaires get special tax deals and repaul all the financial reforms so that wall street can call all the shots and mitt romney tells us in his own word he believes corporations are people.
he in state like nevada, colorado and florida. and florida, it s not going to overshadow what s happening to their daily lives. that s right, mike. they got the message loud and clear and it going to ripple through those communities. they re going to remember it as long as that law is upheld. if i could comment on the campaign finance ruling, nothing more poisonous has happened to our politics than the citizens united ruling. you look at the history of the state in which that ruling came down, you know, a hundred years ago there were a couple of copper barons who financed the entire politics there and they bought and sold senators as they come to washington. now they ve come full circle and they have the united states telling they they can t control the special interest in their own state wirks is a very bad situation for politics locally and states and nationally. evil, i m curious, where would one find one of these
firework gfir firewor fireworks. after millions of dollars were spent in the 1890s, helena won to the joy of one of the copper barons and the sorrow of the other. decades after that the people decided to pass the corrupt practices act to keep that sort of corporate influence out of state politics. because of the history, montana thought about things differently than the rest of the states and still do. in december the montana supreme court thumbed their noses at the u.s. supreme court by up holding the ban on corporate money in state politics regardlist of the citizens united ruling. this past friday the supreme court stopped montana from enforcing the limits they want to put on corporation donations in politics at the state level, until the supreme court can decide on the montana case. now we don t know if the supreme court will hear that case or when it will decide whether to hear it but until then, post
when you go for the chunk to take away completely collective bargaining, people died for that. the copper barons in montana, the great union song i dreamed i saw joe hill last night, i can sing that song, it s . neil: that is too far? guest: no need to have them hung up on that when they are ready to give up things. guest: i agree i come from a right-to-work state but that is too far. people have earned collective bargaining rights should be able to keep them but we need to bring down the pay because we cannot afford it. we made promises we cannot keep. neil: that is just for starters. much more with erskine bowles and alan simpson. if you don t want to take flak, don t be a leader, be a