that s the only way they were going to be able to fight the big money of citizens united. and last night the ground game did the job for the democrats and the president. this ground game was dominated by the wage earners of america. because they saw this election as a real threat to their livelihood. these workers were up against millionaires and billionaires, like the koch brothers and sheldon adelson spending millions on super pacs to defeat president obama. but what they couldn t buy was a ground game. the united steel workers, for example. them alone had 7,000 volunteers, who knocked on over 170,000 doors, just in the past two weeks. the boots on the ground proved it s possible to fight back against this wall of money that we re seeing. this corporate money, this influence, this effort to suppress the vote. for more, let s turn to leo gehrard, president of the united steelworkers international. mr. gehrard, you don t have to get your blood pressure up tonight. this is what winning
and american workers who are about to have their jobs shipped to china are fighting for free speech tonight. leo gehrard with the latest on mitt romney s dark vision for america.
gehrard, president of the united steelworkers international. mr. gehrard, good to have you with us tonight. the threats that are being made by the management of the bain, they actually came from the east coast and went to freeport, illinois, and met with the mayor and the police department and told them, this is the law of the land, is the way we see it. is this crossing the line? it absolutely is crossing the line. but let s not remember let s not forget, this isn t the bain model. this is the mitt romney model, to try to bully people, to put your hand up and say, let me finish, to try to have their own way. the bunch of people who got arrested today, some of them are our members, one of them is our retiree, who wanted to go in to meet with the company and say, what can you do to save our jobs? instead they got arrested. the company has made the threat they re going to close the plant instantly if that happens. so far they haven t done it, which also looks like mitt romney, say on
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and what would happen if the country is directed by this man, mitt romney. mitt romney created bain capital and the model it uses today. he believes in outsourcing and he s done nothing to help the workers of freeport. romney also has $8 million worth of bain funds, so when bain profits off of outsourcing, so does mitt romney. meanwhile, sensata has released their third quarter financial statement. not the second. now the third quarter statement is out. we told you about the second quarter on friday night. now the third quarter shows they re doing just fine. sensata made more than $470 million in net revenue during the third quarter of this year, 2012. unfortunately, this number isn t good enough for the vultures over at bain capital. they re still shipping the sensata jobs to china, to the folks who will make maybe about $1 an hour. joining me tonight is leo gehrard, president of the united