and working along with them. i need to have the public and the parents. that s how you turn a full school system around, not by picking and choosing different communities. what s this race going to come down to? if we can get i mean, you were so close. isn t that in your favor? i think it helps in some ways. but my background. best qualified, best experienced person, the person to help lead the city of new york forward. that s what will determine if i m the next mayor of new york city. the money, how is it? we ve raised it. we re all only able to spend $6.5 million in the primary. i have the 6.5 million. i ll be able to fully fund the primary. money s not a concern. bill thompson nice to meet you. thank you for being on the ed show. thank you. next week we re going to be broadcasting from minnesota. we ll do a comparison, as the democrats run minnesota and the republicans run wisconsin, where
that s his driving rational for draconian abortion legislation that won t be popular with the general public and the general election. despite the fact jesus never said anything about abortion but he was quite specific about how to treat the less fortunate. when you lock at scott walk are s record, collective bargaining rights for teachers hurts the deficit but tach cuts for gazillion airs doesn t. that s the crown jewel in scott walker s kingdom of corn dog. ruth, he is not a washingtonite. does that help him? does that help republicans? maybe. he has this folksy appeal. he gave a speech in indiana and couple of right wing blockers called him awesome sauce. he has a plain style speaking pch if you look at the results of his tenure here in wisconsin, we are dragging behind the rest of the region in job creation. and every time he has a job
part. now they are being arrested. by friday, who than 60 people had been arrested. since when do you have to have a permit to exercise your constitutional right as free speech? i thought these righties love free speech. this is what scott walker s government looks like. you know what else scott walker s government looks like in in 2012 wisconsin ranked 33 among 50 states in the private sector for growth. that of course is the lower second half. lets it continues to trail the national growth rate as well and at the current pace, there s going to be about 124,000 private sector jobs created by the time walker s term ends in 2015. that s half of the 250,000 jobs that walker promised to create on the campaign trail. and wisconsin s average wages still lag behind the national average. walker s government rejected medicaid expansion. his budget will force 90,000 low
or go to our blog. we will bring you the results later on in the show. joining me is washington poekstj payi pagan. he has to have ledge lative help to get all of this done. is this what wisconsin is all about, is the badger state changing under this i go? well, it s been transformed. i mean we have been taken over and you have been covering this story a lock time, ed, so you know about the 30 million walker spent in the recall effort against him. he brought money into this politics and this state like never before and 75% of the money came from outside the state. just as he is on a national tour gearing up for his presidential campaign he is bringing outside interest into the state and he
summit with our legislature, we have more forced ultra sound bills and cancellation cancellation of sex ed bills. so it is clear in wisconsin we aren t doing well under scott walker. i think the nation might look at that. e.j., when you look at walker and the candidates, they have to say where they stand on the nsa. could this be his weakness? i don t even know where he stand on this right now. but he has to formulate an opinion that will pick either the radicals or going to pick, if they are still left, pick mainstream republicans still left. what do you think? i think this is big problem in the republican prty though. when you lock at that vote in the house it also split democrat. but you have a very substantial group of republicans who are critical of this. would you think that given walker s record he would lean toward the libertarians on that. but he is also a social