senator, what s your response? the governor says he s going to have to now lay off workers because he can t get a deal with the democrats. what s your response to that? right. what s really unfortunate about this is this is a tactic that he s used before, and unfortunately, it s nothing more than a tactic that really frightens workers throughout wisconsin. i ve had a few friends who have called me with tears in their eyes talking about the layoff notice they ve gotten in the mail saying, is this for real? and i had to think for a minute and think, okay, maybe this is actually happening. he actually did the same thing about a year and a half ago when he was county executive and i was on the county board and he was trying to force our hand on another budget issue that didn t end ub materializing. so this is actually just a political tool he s trying to use, and it s unfortunate that he s using people s lives and people s hivelivelihoods in a