never covers it, i m here to tell you what we are seeing in the states is that voters in the states governed by republicans cannot wait until the next election to undo what they have done. they want the politicians and their main priorities out and they want them out now. joining us a lawmaker at the center of the recall effort in wisconsin since day one, john erpenbach, nice to see you again, thanks for being here. you too, rachel, thank you. when all this started with you and your fellow senators, fleeing the state to keep the republicans from stripping union rights in wisconsin, when you and i first met over that whole conflict, did you know it would end like this for squcott walke? when we talked i thought we would be in chicago for a couple days and go home, work it out, obviously that didn t happen. here we are, less than a year later and we turned in a million signatures to recall the governor almost as many votes as
but all the republican governors throughout the nation who are thinking about messing around with collective bargaining rights or cutting finlding to education and the list goes on. this is a huge wake up call if you re a republican governor right now. senator erpenbach, i have to ask you if you are considering running against governor walker. there is no single declared democratic candidate who is the obvious choice to run against governor walker, are you considering running against him in. it certainly is something i m looking at. there is a lot of good people talking about it at well. one of my colleagues tim cullen one of the 14 out of beloit, the former county scooteexecutivexe barrett, what we are doing right now is to day is the day to celebrate in an ironic and sad day if you think about it on the state s history. over a million people want to change governors in the state of wisconsin. he has been in office a year and a week. it s celebratory and strange at
can democrats compete with that? i think so, but i think we can compete with bay slick basically with people power. financially, obviously the democrats will have to be competitive, this is a race for the governor of the state of wisconsin but this race is essentially a nation-wide race, with implications. republican governors are taking note today and looking at the signatures that were turned in against governor walker. we tend to think money will flow in from both sides to support both candidates whoever the democrat ends up being but make no mistake we re looking $100 million race in the end. i think it will be in the super pacs will come in with money from the corporations and so on and so forth, but you can t argue, rachel, a million people signed a petition to recall a governor who has been in office for one year and a week. that says a lot. wisconsin democratic state senator john erpenbach, i should note pointedly not closing out the possibility he might be one of the dem
very closely way democratic state senator named tim cullen. senator schultz saying of his new democratic friend, tim and i have a great partnership. the pair say they have currently working together on issues including local infrastructure. with senator schultz having voiced some concerns about the behavior of his own party sxeen some regrets about what they did on the crucial union-stripping vote this year, could republican senator dale schultz become a democratic ally in the wisconsin state senate even if republicans nominally hold on tonight? with all eyes on the alberta darling race. joining us for the second time tonight is wisconsin state senator john erpenbach, who you may recall is one of the 14 democrats in the state senate who left the state earlier this year in an attempt to halt passage of the union-stripping bill. senator erpenbach, thank you for joining us again, sir. thank you, rachel. the best democrats could do is to go 3-3 tonight, three wins and three losses. r
happen. and i gave waukesha county the benefit of the doubt, as much as it was tough to, do back in the supreme court race. waukesha doesn t get the benefit of the doubt now. neither does cathy nicholas. this is two important elections in a row. and for her to sit on the results is absolutely astonishing. you know, tammy baldwin, who s a congressperson from madison, did ask for an investigation. and you don t want to play with the elections like this. you simply don t. just give us the truth. win or lose. we just want the truth. and waukesha county should have been one of the first counties reporting, not the last county to report. senator erpenbach, i ll just ask you one last question here because you ve got an amazing backdrop behind you, which is a whole lot of wisconsinites who are very engaged a lot of your fans, rachel. again, it s very flattering. but let me just ask you, it s been a long night already, and we still don t know. the balance of power in the state senate is