senator larson, as soon as you heard about this plan, you actually started driving back to wisconsin right away? i did. i was trying to see if there was something we could do, anything, in order to try and stop this, but it was pretty obvious they didn t want to have anything to do with that. they didn t want the democrats there. we thought we were talking, we thought we were having good discussions, we thought we were on our way to having a compromise that would preserve workers rights, remove some of the bad things from this trojan horse bill and get something through that the people of wisconsin could agree with and find a compromise with. that seemed to have been an affront. it seemed to have been a trick again on their part. if they wanted us back, they could have had us back. this was something where they intentionally deceived us. senator miller, the democratic leader of the senate said tonight that tonight 18
horse bill and get something through that the people of wisconsin could agree with and find a compromise with. that seemed to have been an affront. it seemed to have been a trick again on their part. if they wanted us back, they could have had us back. this was something where they intentionally deceived us. senator miller, the democratic leader of the senate said tonight that tonight 18 senate republicans conspired to take government away from the people. he then also said tomorrow, we will join the people of wisconsin in taking back their government. i read that to mean that senator miller is on his way back to wisconsin like you are, and that the democratic senators will be back in wisconsin tomorrow. is that true? we re going to be getting together, i am going back to meet with them to talk and see what legal action can be taken. we think there was some notice they didn t do in trying to put this together. we think they may have been
repair bill with this union provision of it severed from it. what does the senate need to do on that part of the bill and do they still need a quorum for that that would include democrats? yes, they clearly would need to have senate democrats present, because the requirement is you have to have three-fifths of those elected present to take that vote. well, representative barca, does that indicate to you then that senate democrats may continue to stay out of the state? no. i think, lawrence, that they are so outraged at this action that based on senator miller s comment and i talked to him briefly this evening, i think they now are going to come back to help to join us in leading this fight against this illegal, improper and unethical effort that was put forward tonight against the people of wisconsin.
overreact in a way that will sell poorly in swing states in 2012. in virginia, in north carolina, in indiana, in colorado, in florida, all of them swing states, all of them with relatively low percentage of unionized public workers and unionized workers generally. that s what s going on. that s the big picture here. and now the democrats are the ones who have to be the grownups because the republicans have been the ones to issue the provocation. this is very serious stakes having everything to do with the 2012 election. scott walker is almost immaterial. he will be a hero in the halls of republican conservativism, a hero at the republican convention. i seriously doubt he ll be on the ticket, but he is doing what the real leaders of the republican party want done. robert reich, senator miller said in his statement in 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in
that was put forward tonight against the people of wisconsin. you know, lawrence, i don t recognize wisconsin any more. the wisconsin i grew up, people got along. the wisconsin way is you work together to reconcile your differences. the wisconsin way is to bring people together, not divide people, but this governor has divided this state like we have never been divided before. our state believes in clean and open government. that is no longer possible, i don t believe, under governor walker and his extreme and radical agenda. in senator miller s statement tonight, his last line is tomorrow we will join the people of wisconsin in taking back their government. representative barca, are you telling us senator miller told you that he will return to wisconsin tomorrow? that is what was implied. we only talked for a few minutes because there was so little time in between the conference committee and when the senate went in, but i ll be talking to him as soon as i m off the line.