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are or let them handle it this way or through voters referendums. we will see. shannon travis live at the supreme court. ahead of tomorrow s doma arguments, some senators are publicly denouncing it and coming out in support of same-sex marriage. the huffington post reports democratic senator mark warner of virginia and fellow democrat claire mccaskill of missouri voiced their support for same-sex marriage yesterday. also, democratic senators jay rockefeller of west virginia, and tim johnson of south dakota announced they no longer support doma. both supported it when it became law in 1996. also this morning we ve learned the supreme court has agreed to tackle race-based college admissions again. this time the court will just consider whether michigan s race-based affirmative action ban called proposition 2 is constitutional. voters approved it in 2006. but a federal appeals court struck it down last year. the supreme court said it would hear the appeal before ruling on attending a
there was going to be an effort to get it passed. proposal two would have put collective bargaining in the state proposition. problem 2 failed. in michigan, home of united auto worker, how does it fail and does it open the door to right to work legislation? we think it was coming anyway. we tried to do a block of that doing proposition 2. we didn t do a good enough job on proposition 2. a lot of reasons, maybe. three bills were dealing with labor. there were things we could have or should have done differently. i would advocate strongly, we should have done proposition 2. it was the right thing to do. i wish we won proposition 2. if we didn t, we would be sitting here now passing right to work and saying why didn t we try to stop this before it came down. absolutely. i want to look at the effects of
have someone who has the ability to opt out of that union and not pay his dues, you whittle away at the power of the unions and their ability to bargain collectively for all of the people that you see out here demonstrating right now, gregg. rick: governor snyder had said, mike, that he wasn t interested in getting involved with union legislation. what changed his mind? reporter: it s interesting. something called proposition 2. you hear them chanting again, don t sign the bill. proposition 2 would have put collective bargaining on the constitution or in the constitution for michigan, to make it untouchable with legislation. governor snyder told the proponents of proposition 2, don t do this. it is an overreach. they did it. he came back with this. you hear a lot of people complaining this is retribution. what you see the governor doing now is pun nichement for the fact that they went for proposition 2, failed in november. this is the way the governor is getting back at them. rick: m
many years, generation -fs familiegenerations of families have been part of these unions. no doubt there is a bit of fear inletting go of that model, in terms of what it might mean for the future. i m sure, mike, that a lot of folks you are talking to out there have been involved in unions, and have families, for generations, who have relied on this system. [shouting] reporter: that is very much the case, it s also interesting, martha, you mentioned the novemberee hrefpblgts something yo november election. a lot of people on the national scene missed it, there was something voted on called proposition 2. that would have put collective bargaining in the michigan constitution and make it unchallengeable by any state laws that would be passed. governor snyder told the democrats in michigan at this time don t push this issue right now. it went to the voters and failed and in large part this is governor snyder s response to the fact that proposition 2 was pushed. he said don t do it or we