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Ask the gop state senate leader here. in the last century in america there have been 20 recall elections and 13 lawmakers have ever been recalled. today in wisconsin, six republicans are facing a recall. if the democrats can pick up just three seats, they will also pick up control of the state senate here in wisconsin. they re trying to turn back the controversial scott walker budget, the governor here who passed it through despite much protest a few months ago. they re getting a lot of help from the outside, a lot of money, $30 million has been spent between the republicans and the democrats on these state level campaigns in the last few months and if you ask the gop here they ll tell you it all comes down to unions versus republicans. we have had literally the air waves have been bought up by the unions in an effort to persuade wisconsin voters to take a look at what we did in the area of the budget, balancing the budget. reporter: but democrats are saying that republicans ....
Any sustained job creation is that going to more than offset job cuts in the public sector because of cutbacks? well, again, in our case, the difference is unlike other states where they re talking about massive layoffs, we really essentially are protecting middle class jobs at the same time of protecting property taxpayers because we give the reductions and benefits middle class teachers would disagree. middle class teachers would disagree and say they re not being protected by the scott walker budget or administration. even this weekend there were more protests over the weekend with protesters saying the fight is not over and recent polling shows quite frankly that wisconsinites are divided on your plans for state workers. right. that s because the national union bosses have come in and poured millions of dollars here to try to make this an issue of workers rights when it s about protecting benefits and union dollarship, membership dollars they re looking at. that s what they ....
of l.a. this morning. it was unbelievable to even hear this morning, but yes, according to the los angeles times, quite a bombshell this morning they re breaking a story out of california that the former governor, arnold schwarzenegger, admitted fathering a child with a former member of his household staff and that is why the marriage broke up. schwarzenegger says it happened over a decade ago, but that he only told his wife maria shriver, after he left office earlier this year. that s when shriver moved out of their brentwood mansion. she has not commented. schwarzenegger says he has no excuses for his behavior, he s sorry for the hurt he caused his wife and children. casey wian is live in los angeles this morning. when the couple announced they would be splitting and living separately but didn t say they would be divorced but tongues were wagging, why now. now we have the answer. absolutely. it s hard to believe that schwarzenegger could become even more controv ....