in wisconsin, down to two weeks. the republican legislature is also doing the same thing. this has happened before in many a legislature. democrats have done this in the past to republican governors in lame duck sessions in other states. joining me from the state capitol of madison is wisconsin s incoming governor, tony evers. governor-elect evers, welcome to meet the press. good morning, chuck. let me start with this. you said you were going to personally lobby scott walker, the governor who you defeated, to veto this legislation. how have those talks gone? have you met with him? i communicated with governor walker over the telephone a few days ago, and laid out my position that vetoing the
so no, i think it is directly related to a win by a democrat, and that would be me. we need to have this vetoed. one of their rationales has been, well, governor-elect evers margins all came from two cities, madison and milwaukee. we have to represent the rest of the state. what do you say to that charge? and more importantly, you won a very narrow election. how do you reach of course. how do you reach across this divided state at this point? it would have been a lot easier without this legislation, i ll tell you that. i have reached in my present job as state superintendent, that s a statewide elected position. i ve reached across the aisle on all numbers of issues. that s part of my dna. i m an educator. so i always try to find common ground and i ll continue to do that going forward. but i won the election. any way you slice it, i won the election. and i actually narrowed some of
that. but what s with y and z here? did you go to him and say, look, i really think this part is just crazy. please veto that. if you want to keep this, i get it. no. i talked about a few areas that are really important that actually republican business leaders have talked about, that would take away power and implicate and make economic development much more difficult in the state of wisconsin, but the entire thing is a mess. it s a hot mess. and i believe that he should veto the entire package. in fact at least three or four of the pieces that are in there now, he has vetoed previously. and so it makes no sense to me. you know, he s been a long-time public servant and he has a legacy here, so we re hopeful that he will veto the whole thing. i m curious, after you were elected and quickly we heard word that the republican speaker and the republican majority leader in the legislature there were considering these bills, did you reach out to them personally before the bill started
for me because they knew that i was for good schools and good transportation system and good health care. they didn t they didn t elect me to fight over administrative powers in the state of wisconsin vis-a-vis the republican majority. no, i think this gets us off to a bad start. i think it s a mistake, but we ll continue working to get the people of wisconsin to convince scott walker to think about his legacy and make sure that he vetoes this language. democratic congresswoman gwen moore said the legislators who engineered this coup, their actions amount to a smash and grab hijacking of the voters will. a coup seems strong, but the fact of the matter is as i just said, if scott walker won this election and he did not, i did, we wouldn t be sitting here talking about this today. scott walker wouldn t be sitting here talking about, geez, they re trying to balance the power here.
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