any chance we ll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions and become a right to work? in fact what can we do to help you? we re going to start in a couple of weeks with our budget adjustment bill. the first step is, we re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employees. use divide and conquer. that s the infamous divide and conquer comment scott walker gave billionaire diane hendricks, one of his big currentors. michelle bernard speaking. question for you, what has been the response of democrats in the state of wisconsin when people i think rightfully ask the question which is what s wrong with asking public employees to contribute to their health care, to contribute to their vision coverage, to contribute to their dental coverage, so that state budget deficit can be reduced? i think there s been two responses. first, state employees and remember, this is not just about state employees, it s also about county and municipal employe
who are you trying to conquer. when you say use those words, what do you mean? the special interests. that s who you re trying to divide and conquer? in our case it s about standing up and finally having someone that s willing to stand up with the hard-working taxpayers of the state. it was clear that you weren t going to stop at the public unions and that you were going to continue to pit people against each other. you did intend to divide and conquer, scott, you wanted to pit people against each other. because that s the way you operate. this is in response to a now somewhat infamous clip of walker telling someone that his strategy was divide and conquer, first you go after the public unions and then after everyone else. what is the outlook like for the union movement and the labor movement in wisconsin if tuesday does not go their way? it s tough. we can t, you know, kind of mince words on this the fact of the matter is that the conversation you refer to between govern
we ll say, see, we got em now, we re going to break every union in america, we re going to break every government in america. we re going to stop worrying about the middle class, we don t give a rip whether poor people get to work into it. we got our way now, we got it all, divide and conquer works, you tell them no. i think the story of wisconsin is a fascinating one. it seems to be a microco comcoc our politics. the incredible ferocity with which the agenda was pushed through by scott walker and the republicans who are elected. the backlash it precipitated. the highly unusual recall election and now, you have a state that is this seething polarized intense fraught place with very high stakes. and then on top of that, there s the vision of what post-citizens united campaigns look like. there s a loophole in wisconsin state election law that allows a lot of unlimited money to be