the governor s repair bill. a lot of things we don t like. but we are looking for the governor to show a little leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. representative mason, what s your reaction to the governor s deadlines? i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to pressure people to come back. clearly the governor threatened people s jobs as a political ploy to further a bill he wants passed instead of giving people rights at the workplace and giving them a seat at the table
but we are looking for the governor to show a little leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. representative mason, what s your reaction to the governor s deadlines? i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to pressure people to come back. clearly the governor threatened people s jobs as a political ploy to further a bill he wants passed instead of giving people rights at the workplace and giving them a seat at the table to negotiate. republican senator dale schultz is in a district that voted for barack obama, voted
talk to corey mason right now and tell him what kind of negotiations you had with his democratic senate partners. lawrence, i prefer not to talk to representative mason. this is one of the guys who lost his mind in the assembly over a bill that they don t have the votes to kill. i will give him credit for debating it. the problem is you don t know who to negotiate with. you don t know if senator miller is the leader or the two others who show up once a week or the bomb-throwers on tv every day. that s one. problems. as long as they continues, either labor is pulling the strings or someone else is keeping them from sitting down and working their way back to the state senate. it doesn t fall on the republicans. it falls on those that got in the minivan and drove to chicago and are holed up in a hotel
prank phone call where he thought he was talking to david coke. a new poll out from the right-leaning wisconsin institute shows 65% of people in wisconsin want the governor to compromise with union workers compared to 30% who said no. as for the missing senators, 51% disapprove of him leaving the state and 47% approve. a statistical tie since the margin of error is 4%. corey mason whose colleagues in the senate have been in closed door meetings all day and on the phone, wisconsin senate majority leader scott fitzgerald. representative mason, i want to get your reaction to the news conference where the governor is basically saying that senator miller s letter is bogus because what he is asking for is
leadership here, come forward, make a deal that can bring people home. senator grothman, what happened to the deadline today? we seemed to have passed through a couple of deadlines. last friday was a deadline, today was a deadline. is there any real deadline in front of us? oh, yes, i would anticipate layoffs in the very near future. representative mason, what s your reaction to the governor s deadlines? i mean, after the day has come and passed, clearly this was to pressure people to come back. clearly the governor threatened people s jobs as a political ploy to further a bill he wants passed instead of giving people rights at the workplace and giving them a seat at the table to negotiate. republican senator dale