governor acknowledged it in a press call which was really stunning, to a group of reporters, he said, look, i know there s alternative legislation that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis in the state legislature to say, look, let s not roll over open meetings, let s not roll over open control, let s try to work something out with the local folks. i talked to the mine owner and he s not going to go for that, he pretty much needs the deal we talked about before. that was the deal we had to take. this is the amazing thing about democracy. if you re listening, you hold the power, voters of iron county, there s a lot of very powerful people that want you to do something, you have the power. ruth, thank you. yes. coming up, bill o reilly calls congresswoman barbara lee a race hustler. that actually happened and she will be here to respond next.
reporters, he said, look, i know there s alternative legislation that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis in the state legislature to say, look, let s not roll over open meetings, let s not roll over open control, let s try to work something out with the local folks. i talked to the mine owner and he s not going to go for that, he pretty much needs the deal we talked about before. that was the deal we had to take. this is the amazing thing about democracy. if you re listening, you hold the power, voters of iron county, there s a lot of very powerful people that want you to do something, you have the power. ruth, thank you. yes. coming up, bill o reilly calls congresswoman barbara lee a race hustler. that actually happened and she will be here to respond next. salesperson #1: so again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card
brothers could be coming to a town near you. joining me now, ruth coneth. how did this even end up on their radar screen? that they knew to go into this town of 6,000 people and start throwing elbows in the local county board election. it s amazing to think these folks are coming in in a big way in such tiny local races. the people in iron county have been under tremendous pressure. there s a $1.5 billion project at stake here. the local county board has concerns. they have concerns that this mine might poison their drinking water and they have to make a zoning decision. what the koch brothers are doing is saying, this is not going to be up to local people. we re going to come in big, we re going to spend the kind of money these folks have never seen in these races and we re going to buy this county board.
joining me now, ruth coneth. how did this even end up on their radar screen? that they knew to go into this town of 6,000 people and start throwing elbows in the local county board election. it s amazing to think these folks are coming in in a big way in such tiny local races. the people in iron county have been under tremendous pressure. there s a $1.5 billion project at stake here. the local county board has concerns. they have concerns that this mine might poison their drinking water and they have to make a zoning decision. what the koch brothers are doing is saying, this is not going to be up to local people. we re going to come in big, we re going to spend the kind of money these folks have never seen in these races and we re going to buy this county board. i will admit i m not the world s biggest expert on this, but flyers like that are not the norm. and that s the most direct mail
project a possibility? yes, and not only that, the governor acknowledged it in a press call which was really stunning, to a group of reporters, he said, look, i know there s alternative legislation that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis in the state legislature to say, look, let s not roll over open meetings, let s not roll over open control, let s try to work something out with the local folks. i talked to the mine owner and he s not going to go for that, he pretty much needs the deal we talked about before. that was the deal we had to take. this is the amazing thing about democracy. if you re listening, you hold the power, voters of iron county, there s a lot of very powerful people that want you to do something, you have the power. ruth, thank you. yes. coming up, bill o reilly calls congresswoman barbara lee a race hustler. that actually happened and she will be here to respond next. salesperson #1: so again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card