And speaking of President Obama,
I think we ought to pay tribute to him today
on this Tax, Day Tea Party
because really he's the inspiration
for why we're here today.
That's right. The Tea Party Movement
wouldn't exist without Barack Obama.
Madison,
when the history of this Tea Party Movement is written,
what you accomplished here will not be forgotten.
God has shed His grace on thee, America.
We will not squander what we have.
We will fight for America!
And it starts here in Madison, Wisconsin!
It starts here!
It starts now!
Mr. President, game on!
[CROWD CHANTING] Yes we can! Yes we can!
-Congratulations, Mr. President. -Thank you, sir.
Mr. President, I want to believe,
I want to trust.
I want to hope for change,
but I am really failing to see how this is any different.
He's not going to succeed.
We have to bend over, grab the angles,
bend over forward, backward, whichever
because his father was black
because this is the first black president.
Not a single Republican joined the majority Democrats tonight.
-Honeymoon is over. -Is it done?
There's a lot of wife beating going on.
Is President Obama's handling of the troubled economy
a signal that we are creeping towards socialism?
They got czars in the White House.
Joseph Stalin without the bloodshed.
Communist, the Marxist, they're taking over.
[CROWD CHANTING] U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Today is the beginning of the grassroots movements
to take back this country.
My brother, Charles and I
provided the funds to start the Americans for Prosperity.
And it's beyond my wildest dreams how AFP has grown.
The largest tax day tea party in the nation.
You can join the tea party action
if you go to the foxnation.com.
Kill the bill! Kill the bill! Kill the bill!
The Democrats call those folks a mob,
crazy, even worse, I call them patriots.
I agree.
It's about patriotism.
He's not a natural born citizen.
He's surrounding himself with people of his own kind.
This president, I think, has a deep-seated hatred
for white people.
Thanks to millions of Americans who stepped up in town halls
and tea parties across this country.
He is not going to get his way.
He brought a gun to a meeting
the president held today on healthcare.
Was your gun loaded today?
Ah, wow,
who would be silly enough to carry an unloaded firearm?
This is the beginning of taking our nation back.
We're going to take back our government,
we can do it in Wisconsin and by God
we are going to do it all across America.
Oye Oye Oye.
All persons having business before the honorable,
the Supreme Court of the United States
are admonished to draw near and give their attention
for the court is now sitting.
God saves United States and this honorable court.
You'll hear re-argument this morning in Citizens United
versus the Federal Election Commission.
General Kagan.
Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court.
For over a hundred years, Congress has made a judgment
that corporations must be subject to special rules
when they participate in elections
and this court has never questioned that judgment.
Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
We never questioned it, but we never approved it either.
The Citizens United case arose
out of a movie made a right wing group
Citizens United partially funded by corporate donations
denouncing Hillary Clinton.
It was made at a time when she was viewed
as the leading Democratic candidate for president.
Ruthless, vindictive.
Venal, sneaky.
Ideological, intolerant.
Liar is a good one.
Scares the hell out of me.
I think anybody watching that movie would walk away
with the clear impression
that the moviemakers were trying to urge you
not to vote for her.
If you thought you knew everything
about Hillary Clinton,
wait until you see the movie.
They called it Hillary The Movie
to ensure that their advertisements
would have to name a federal candidate.
Congress said, if you are running an ad about a candidate
and you're close to the election,
you can't have corporate funding,
you can't have union funding
and you have to list the donors behind those ads.
This provides the voters with important information
that they are entitled to know about before the election.
Would it expedite the visibility of this movie
if you were to simply comply with the disclosure
and disclaimer law?
Well, we would suffer damage if we did that.
We would not get contributors
who want to contribute to the film,
to contribute to the advertising of the film.
If we agree to disclosing our donors.
Have you actually gotten an expressed concern from donors
or it's just kind of a theoretical principal
that you're standing on?
No, we have expressed concerns.
Jim Bopp has been bringing test cases
of trying to push the law back
and have less regulation.
You can even buy a Democrat congressman for $2500.
The anecdotal evidence is that it takes $99,000
in cold hard cash.
He decided that there was an opportunity with Citizens United
to challenge the requirement
that the sources of funding of a film like that
that advocated the election or defeat
of a federal candidate
had to be reported to the Federal Election Commission.
The case went to the Supreme Court
and there were five justices ready to say,
this isn't the disclosure case,
this is really about whether corporate money can be spent,
we think that there is nothing wrong
with spending corporate money
to advocate the elect defeat of a candidate.
And the four justices in the minority said,
"Wait a minute, that hasn't even been briefed in this case."
The court said, we want you to re-argue this case
and argue it bigger.
So that was a bit surprising...
It was very surprising.
It's a very unusual thing for the court to do
and it's very activist.
Hillary The Movie never made it to theaters,
but it's getting a showing this week
in front of the United States Supreme Court.
Here is the issue.
Is it legal to restrict corporate spending
on political campaigns?
Mr. Olson.
Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court.
Robust debate about candidates for elective office
is the most fundamental value
protected by the First Amendment's guarantee
of free speech.
Yet that is precisely the dialogue
that the government has prohibited
if practiced by unions or corporations.
Mr. Olson, are you taking the position
that there is no difference in the First Amendment Rights
of an individual?
A corporation after all is not endowed by its creator
with an inalienable rights.
I had attended the oral argument with Senator McCain,
we sat together and watched it,
and we were very concerned.
There are certain judges who are alleging that somehow
corporations have the same rights as citizens.
I don't accept that premise.
In Citizens United versus the FEC,
Justice Kennedy has the opinion of the court.
First Amendment protection extends to corporations.
Political speech is indispensable to decision making
in a democracy and this is no less true
because the speech comes from a corporation
rather than an individual.
Senator McConnell leaned over to me once or twice
and said that, is this...is this a very broad opinion,
and I said it's about as broad as it could be.
The Supreme Court is supposed to give
the narrowest possible ruling to resolve the question.
Instead, the court just went off the charts.
I was standing outside the court,
I was really shocked.
I was shocked at the arrogance of the court,
I was shocked at the fact that they thought
corporations were people.
The court said that as long as it's independent spending,
it can't be corrupting.
Give the money directly to the candidate,
you can't give more than $2500 per election.
Give the money to this super pack out there
that is advancing the goals of the same candidate
and you can give an unlimited amount of money
and some folks are giving millions.
It was a huge power grab by corporate America,
they succeeded,
and sadly the Supreme Court was a tool for their interest
instead of being the guardian of our constitution,
the guardian of our laws.
The chief justice and the associate justices
of the Supreme Court.
The president of the United States.
Thank you very much.
With all due deference to separation of powers,
last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law
that I believe will open the floodgates
for special interest
including foreign corporations
to spend without limit in our elections.
I don't think American elections should be bankrolled
by America's most powerful interests.
I would like you to do something different,
I would like you to bring a check,
but not $35,800 on Wall Street,
60 bucks
and have your neighbor do that
and have a million people do that.
And then five million do that
and then guess who runs the country,
the people do.
I thought that's what the constitution said.
I thought that's what the
declaration of independence said.
Well, let me repeat what it says,
it says we will not stand the tyranny of a king.
We will not live in a country
where there are classes of people,
the very rich and the very poor.
What has America become?
This is my woman, I claimed her
and I've got an invitation for her
marked with a T for Tea Party.
You might her as the wife of the Clarence Thomas.
Whoa!
November 2nd will be a storm in Washington.
We are going to come after you so hard you have no idea.
Two years from now Barrack Obama is a one term president.
♪♪
If you've maxed out to the senate committee,
congressional committee or the RNC and you'd like to do more
under the Citizens United decision,
you can give money to the American Crossroads 527
or Crossroads GPS.
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Americans for Prosperity is responsible for the content
of this advertising.
More than three and a half billion dollars has been spent
making this midterm election the most expensive on record.
The Republican Governor's Association
is targeting swing states like Michigan
and Wisconsin and Florida.
Let me tell you how excited Republicans
across the country are about Scott Walker
and what's all he doing here in Wisconsin.
In 2010, Wisconsin is going to experience
the greatest political tsunami in the country.
You are going to lead the way.
We can take our government back and take it back we will.
The whole new class of Republican governors
in critical presidential battleground states.
For the Republican, Scott Walker,
there is a big gain here now for Republicans
in the governor's race in Wisconsin.
Tonight I want to tell...
Tonight, I want to tell every worker,
every family and every business
big or small in the state
that you have an ally in the governor's office,
Wisconsin is open for business.
Wisconsin is a good example
where the people were overpowered by money.
Two brothers, Charles and David Koch
were the largest donors to Governor Walker's campaign.
KochPAC gave $43,000 to Scott Walker
to help him get elected governor.
But they didn't stop by maxing out on a direct contribution
to Scott Walker,
they then gave the Republican Governors Association
a million dollars.
And the RGA spent 5 million dollars on advertising
supporting Walker's election.
Well, that was an incredibly important investment
that may well have put Walker over the hump.
It didn't come out until after the election
that Koch Industries had played the role
in bankrolling Scott Walker's candidacy.
Wisconsin used to have some of the best disclosure laws
in the country,
some of the strongest campaign finance laws
you would find anywhere in America.
And now those laws are basically not worth
the paper they're written on.
That's the largely unknown consequence of Citizens United,
is that it is unleashed money that our disclosure laws
are not equipped to reveal.
The point of it is to find a way to spend money in elections
nowadays without telling anyone who you are.
And why would you want to do that?
Well, that's a good question.
It maybe that you just like operating
under the radar as they say.
It maybe that you have somewhat nefarious motives.
Allowing corporations to spend money on elections
will always keep it a freer country,
but it need not always benefit the country.
It may lead to very bad people being elected sometime
and it may lead to too much power.
On the Supreme Court, we seen an individual
such as Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
who conducted himself brilliantly before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
and soon Chief Justice Roberts
will have as his colleague Judge Samuel Alito Jr.
In Citizens United, we thought we had a very good argument.
The problem was we didn't have a good audience for our argument.
One justice retired and with that one switch,
what had been a 5-4 majority on the court
that was willing to uphold campaign finance laws
switch to a 5-4 majority
to strike down campaign finance laws.
Nothing else in the world had really changed.
No, I mean nothing had changed,
never mind really changed.
That's one of the things that Justice Stevens said
on his descent.
You know, we don't overrule precedence
unless something has significantly changed.
And the only thing Steven said that I can see that has changed
is one justice on the court has retired
and had been replaced by somebody
who views it differently.
The Supreme Court
in front a statue eternally contemplates justice
and inside nine men dispense it.
When they were in elementary school,
we learned that the Supreme Court
was the highest court in the land.
Well, I discovered in the last year is that the Supreme Court,
the highest court in the land
has the lowest ethical standards.
Justice Scalia and Thomas
actually had a conflict of interest
on the Citizens United case.
Justice Thomas had violated the rules
by not filing his financial forms
and in voting for Citizens United
gave his wife the opportunity to receive a large gift
from a corporation to spend politically
which she could not have done
before Citizens United has passed.
Hello patriots!
Whoa!
She then spent that on ultraconservative candidates
that she supported.
Justice Scalia appeared before the tea party on Capitol Hill.
We were delighted with Justice Scalia...
If they were under the judicial code of ethics,
they would not be permitted to go to any political party
or make any contribution to political parties.
If the liberal interest groups and their allies on Capitol Hill
want to have a battle, we're ready to go.
So with that, we'll show you the spot.
When President Bush nominated Clarence Thomas,
he choose a man who grow up poor
in a one-room dirt floor shack,
but with strong grandparents, a good education,
and his own hard work, Clarence Thomas made it
and his conservative values show it.
But Thomas faces bitter opposition
from liberal senate Democrats
whose value should be on the Supreme Court,
Clarence Thomas' or Ted Kennedy's.
Call today.
President Bush and Clarence Thomas need your help.
We're here in Rancho Mirage
to report on this conservative fundraiser that's going on.
It's a fundraiser/political strategy session
with some of the wealthiest businessman in the country
to fund the conservative movement.
For 10 years, the Koch brothers and their friends
have been meeting twice a year
at resorts in California and in Colorado.
They're inviting all of the conservative legislators
from the House and Senate.
They even invited Justices Scalia and Thomas
to speak to their meetings.
They're extraordinarily wealthy.
They have fertilizer plants.
One of the largest timber companies in the world,
a large network of pipelines,
shipping fossil fuels around the country.
The refineries that specialize in
some of the worst types of oil
like Canadian crude oil that's high carbon
very bad for the environment.
Last year, when they had this meeting in Aspen, Colorado,
they planned how to take Congress
and raise hundreds of millions of dollars
plugged it into nonprofits like Americans for Prosperity,
so the politicians know where the money was coming from
and we've got a brand new Congress elected by these guys.
Hi sir, my name is Lee Fang.
I'm with the blog Think Progress--
Hey Lee, we're not doing any interview today,
we're not doing any interview.
What you're expecting from the new congress?
Well, cut the hell out of the spending
and balance the budget
and reduce regulations and support business.
Mr. Koch, are you proud of the Tea Party Movement
and what they've achieved...?
Yeah, like there's some extremist there,
but the rank and file are just normal people like us.
David, Lee here is a good blogger on the left.
We're glad to have him. No more interviews now.
Just a quick interview,
are you proud of what Americans for Prosperity
has achieved this year?
You bet, I am. Man oh man.
We're going to do more too
in the next couple of years, you know.
All together, global warming is...
Bullshit!
In January of 2009, Americans for Prosperity
start sending organizers in California, Arizona, Florida,
several other states to organize these tea parties
to depose the belief in climate change
and support key agenda items
that Koch Industries has an interest in.
And we are going to fight the future,
we are about ready to launch
the right to work effort in Michigan,
AFP is here at the right time for our nation's history.
In 2010, after he's elected with tremendous support
from Koch Industries and Koch PAC,
Scott Walker takes legislation
that was written by an outfitting Washington DC,
ALEC funded by the Koch brothers and other corporate interest.
He takes these model bills from voter ID laws
to a tax on worker rights
and he's made it his own playbook,
and he's put all that policy in place.
That's not something that people in Wisconsin were yearning for,
it's not something that you heard a hue and cry about.
This is an agenda that the less 1% wants.
Good to see.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you.
Good to see you again...
So what we're going to do and talk about right now,
these concerns that Mary and I have are a little controversial
to bring upstairs, because there's press up there.
Yeah. We'll follow.
Any chance we'll ever get to be a completely red state
-and work on these unions? -Oh yeah.
And become a right-to-work?
-Well what... -What can we do to help you?
Well, we're going to start in a couple of weeks
with our budget adjustment bill.
The first step is...
We're going to deal with collective bargaining
-for all public employee unions. -Right.
Because you use divide and conquer.
So I need lawmakers to vote on it,
but the key is by tying it to the budget,
there's no way to unravel that.
Huge changes could be on the horizon for public employees
as the governor seeks to strip unions of some rights.
We're going to have to make changes
in terms of collective bargaining
even question whether or not you have
a public union to begin with.
The change would strip bargaining rights from everyone
from snow plough drivers to prison guards.
The union actually says about 37% of our membership
voted for Scott Walker.
Everyone knew that he was not union-friendly,
but he never said anything about attacking collective bargaining.
Mid-term elections went Republican,
Republican and Republican.
And I am a Republican.
What I voted for is not what I got.
I did not vote,
and this is a harsh word to use,
I did not vote for a dictator
who would strip me
and my colleagues of all the rights.
The reaction around school was shock.
We didn't know if we were going to have a job the next day,
the next month, the next year.
It's not just about teachers, it's about our state's history.
This can't happen.
This is wrong.
For snow plowers that take care of the roads.
What Walker is trying to do is unfair
without giving us a voice.
The union is losing ground.
They lost 612,000 union members in 2010 alone.
Now, think about it,
everyone in those 602,000 people had literally,
perhaps several hundred dollars worth of union dues
going into the political coffers of their union
to spend on politics.
So yeah, you keep having for half a million people
leave the labor movement every year
and pretty soon you start having crimp
in the political budget so these unions
that has a direct effect on the presidential election.
He was going to change the world old Walker.
I know people were voting for him left and right,
and so all of a sudden,
have you heard what that governor is doing?
If it's just about the budget,
we'll give you the pension reform,
we'll give you the increase in our healthcare cost,
just don't make it about our union.
My name is Dee Ives
and I'm a veteran of the United States Air Force.
I am also proud to say that I work at the veteran's home
at King Wisconsin.
I am also a Reagan Republican.
This bill should not be about party politics people.
[CROWD CHANTING] Kill this bill! Kill this bill!
I am urging all of our legislators to consider
the serious implications to the quality of care
that we will be able to provide the veterans of Wisconsin
in the home that was established over 120 years ago
to protect our veterans.
It is 2:50 a.m.
at the Republican members of the Finance Committee
have said that they are walking out of the hearing.
They're adjourning it in their words.
[CROWD CHANTING] We will speak! We will speak!
We have not heard of ever a hearing ending
before every person had the right to speak.
That ended here tonight.
That is a Wisconsin tradition, we should never allow to end.
In Wisconsin today, a game of hide and seek.
The state legislature sergeant at arms on the hunt
for 14 senate Democrats who fled the state.
The reason why we left
is this was the only way we could try and get
the governor to sit down rationally
and talk about this proposal and talk about changes.
There is on ongoing negotiations
with the Senate Democrats at this point.
They need to come back and go to work.
The bill is not negotiable. The bill is not negotiable.
Wisconsin is ground zero.
I think it's going to determine largely whether or not
the pampered nature of this public employee unions
is finally reined in so that they're paying for healthcare
and they're paying for pensions
in a level that the private sector is doing.
I think this is the ground zero.
I don't have a problem at all contributing to my pension plan.
In our school district, we already paid
10% of our medical cost,
another 2.5% is nothing.
These are both of Will's?
- Yeah, those are Will's. - Fantastic.
Two more student books in.
Yey, hurray another one done.
I don't think any of the union members have a problem
contributing financially to get in the state out of debt.
And I guess, we hoped that our elected officials
would see that we were willing to meet them halfway.
But don't take away my right to negotiate my paycheck.
That is not what I voted for you to do.
I've got 21 years in with the United States Army,
came back and choose to become a correctional officer.
As a job that I'm suited for in terms of my personality
and the training that I got in the military.
You can be required to give more than most jobs.
7:20, 106.7 FM Sly in the Morning,
correctional officers,
Brian Cummingham and Mark Elliot with me.
At one time I thought you guys got to carry guns
in those facilities, you don't,
all you've got is your walkie-talkie and your brain.
That's it.
We have 1233 inmates that live in the city block.
They all live in their bathroom.
Half of them live with another man in their bathroom.
Everything that those inmates do on a daily basis
were responsible for.
That's what we do as a service to the state of Wisconsin
and Scott Walker has vilified us.
He has made us the enemy when our job is to serve.
They're saying they will agree on the cuts,
but they feel that the request
to eliminate collective bargaining,
you know, basically amounts to union busting.
Is there no room for compromise
if they're willing to give on the financial incentives?
Well, for us, we're broke. We're not involved...
When Scott Walker announced that Wisconsin is open for business,
I did not know at that time that that meant that Wisconsin
was open for business
at the expense of workers,
at the expense of elders
who were depending on Medicare benefits
for home health services
at the expense of people who are already marginal.
The young lady from Wisconsin.
The governor and I have a really long history,
we're friends,
I'm crazy about his kids and his wife,
but I'm not going to spend my five minutes pretending
that we agree on anything.
You started out by giving 117 million dollars
worth of tax breaks to wealthy people
which reduces revenue and in contrast,
you cut the earned income tax credit,
doubling the taxes on the poorest parents.
What in the world does that have to do with balancing a budget?
I have here a website,
"www.standwithwalker.com"
that is supported by the Americans for Prosperity
and funded by the Koch brothers.
How much have you received in contributions
from the Koch brothers.
I had 50,000 contributors,
I couldn't tell you who they all are.
Governor Walker, your proposal would require unions
to hold annual votes
to continue representing their own members.
Can you please explain to me and members of this committee
how much money this provision saves for your state budget?
We gave workers the right to choose
which is a fundamental American right,
the right to choose whether or not
they want to be a part of the union
and whether or not they want up to a thousand dollars
-taking out of... -How much money does it save, governor?
In particular it doesn't save any...
OK, that's right. That's the point.
It obviously has no effect whatsoever...,
-I'll answer your question-- -I'm reclaiming my time.
it obviously had no effect whatsoever on the state budget.
To pretend that this is about a fiscal crisis
in the state of Wisconsin is malarkey.
Seven of the top 10 donors to political campaigns
donate to Republicans,
the other three all donate to Democrats
and they're all unions.
This is the potential Armageddon for organized labor,
public sector unions as money laundering operations
for the Democrat Party.
Unions are the only competition Republicans have
in electoral politics.
Post Citizens United,
conservatives look at this and they smell blood.
Bust the unions, it's over.
Hi, this is Scott Walker.
Scott, David Koch, how are you?
How are you, David? I'm good and yourself?
I'm very well.
I'm a little disheartened by the situation there,
but what's the latest?
We're actually hanging pretty tough.
What we're thinking about the crowds was
planting and troublemakers.
You know, the...well, the only problem with...
because we thought about that,
my only fear would be is if there was a ruckus caused
is that that would scare the public in the thinking
maybe the governor has got to settle to avoid
all these problems.
There's a lot of us new governors who got elected
to do something big.
You're the first domino.
Yup, this is our moment.
Yeah.
Thirty years ago,
Ronald Reagan had one of the most defining moments
of his political career
when he fired the air traffic controllers.
To me that moment was more important
than just for labor relations or even the federal budget,
that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall
and the fall of communism
because from that point forward
the Soviets and the communists
knew that Ronald Reagan wasn't a pushover.
Well, I'll tell you what Scott.
Once you crush these bastards,
I'll fly out to Cali and really show you a good time.
All right. That would be outstanding.
Now, what else can we do for you down there?
Well the biggest thing it would be and your guy on the ground
is probably seeing this is after this
a lot of these guys are going to need...
They don't necessarily need ads for them,
but they're going to need a message out
reinforcing why this was a good thing to do for the economy
and good thing to do for the state.
So the extent that that message is out over and over again
that's obviously a good thing.
Who decides Wisconsin's future,
voters or government unions?
Wisconsin voted for fiscal sanity and balanced budgets,
but government workers fight to keep benefits
far better than the private sector.
Democratic legislators refuse to show up for their jobs
hiding out in other states.
And incredibly, President Obama backs the union bosses
and floods Wisconsin with out of state political protesters.
Governor Walker has the courage
to do what's right for Wisconsin.
Americans for Prosperity is responsible
for the content of this advertisement.
That's those are American for Prosperity ads,
those are Koch brother ads.
...To all that outside spending,
some of it coming from groups that aren't even in Wisconsin.
...Own democracy campaign estimates
that a total of 30 million dollars will be spent...
-Jesus! -Thirty million dollars,
do you think they could find something better to do
with 30 million dollars like,
maybe the Koch's could pay their taxes
and then we wouldn't be in this mess.
You know how many homeless veterans that would feed?
Thirty million bucks.
I am watching my Republican Party implode.
...Clerk call the roll.
-No! No! No! -Excuse me.
Listen it says, if it's any doubt
as to whether good cause exists,
the governmental body should provide 24 hours notice.
This is clearly a violation of open meetings law.
The Republican lawmakers were able to separate
the portion of Governor Scott Walker's budget bill
that deals with collective bargaining
and pass that on its own in the absence of the
state's 14 missing Democratic senators.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
This is about the presidential election in 2012.
If we win this battle
and the money is not there
under the auspices of the unions,
certainly what you're going to find is President Obama
is going to have a much difficult,
a much more difficult time getting elected
and winning the state of Wisconsin.
If you never voted before, I bet you will now.
Madison, these are the front lines in the battle
for the future of our country!
Mr. Obama,
Mr. President, you and your cohorts threw all the hatred
and all the violence that you could
at these good folks here in Madison, Wisconsin,
but you lost here.
And Madison, you defended that 2010 electoral mandate,
you are heroes, you are patriots.
Your historic stand brought down the curtain on the last election
and the 2012 election begins here.
I would join my brother in expressing my appreciation
for your support and presence here this weekend.
What I want to do is recognize those partners
who had given more than a billion...a million. No...
I'm going to go easy on you,
more than a million over the last 12 months.
If you want to kick in a billion,
believe me, we'll have a special seminar just for you.
We've had a lot of tough battles.
We've lost a lot over the years and we've won some recently,
set the stage for, as I said,
the mother of all battles coming up a
year from November
and I've pledged to all of you who've stepped forward
and are partnering with us,
but we are absolutely going to do our utmost
to invest this money wisely
and to get the best possible payoff for you
and the future of our country.
What we need to do is pass the mother of all repeal bills
and I would begin with the EPA.
And one of the things the Congress should do immediately
is defund the National Labor Relations Board.
We could rein back the scale of the government
and that's the right thing to do.
It's three agencies of government
when I get there that are gone.
Commerce, education and the...
what's the third one there, let's see...
Watch out Mitt, watch out Rick Perry,
you watch out,
you give me a foot hold in one of these debates,
I will tear their breaches up.
I'm a farm boy. I'm a small businessman.
I'm a family guy.
I'm the only guy running who's been a congressman
and a governor.
Hundred dollar limit. I don't take PAC money,
no special interest money.
I'm Buddy Roemer, I'm running for president;
president of the United States of America.
Governor, how are you?
Buddy Roemer, how are you?
Do you always travel Amtrak, Governor?
I do. It's cheap.
It's subsidized by the taxpayers.
Where is the Secret Service today?
I don't have Secret Service man,
I've got Carlos from El Paso, Carlos Sierra.
You know the first question people ask me
because I've been at this for six months or more,
day after day,
and they say, why haven't you been on the debate?
You're the only guy running who's been a congressman
and a governor.
You're a fairly successful business man
and what's the reason you can't get on a debate?
And I don't even have an answer for that,
I don't know.
I called after I had formally announced
that I was running for president,
and they said, oh, you have to have 1% of the vote.
Three weeks later, we were 1%, I called again.
And they said, oh, it's 2% now.
So we made the 2% mark and we called again
and they said, you not only have to have 2%,
you have to raise a half a million dollars
in the last 90 days.
It's big business and there's a place for a big business,
but is it in determining who even runs for president?
What kind of country are we?
He has grounds to feel mistreated by the system
and I'm not a conspiracy theorist,
I don't know who is it who decided time and time again
that he shouldn't be in the debates,
but clearly, what he wanted to talk about
is not what the Republican leadership in Washington
wanted to focus on.
The politicians don't run the country,
the major corporations do.
Congress acts like the gates are opened,
there's nothing they can do
and the president who is not a leader.
And I maybe very specific.
He is a participant in the fraud.
I mean, he signs bank reform,
runs to Wall Street the next week,
has a $35,000-ticket fundraiser
sponsored by Goldman Sachs.
Now, that's independent.
But Congress could do something.
I've given them six things they could do,
all they need is courage.
I feel a speech coming on, I don't give a...
New York.
Here's what I want to do with you today.
I want to draw the line between the kitchen table issue
and money and politics.
So you don't have a job,
your grandma can't get healthcare,
kid can't go to school.
Got no fucking heating oil,
so I'm going to push you and say
-tell me Governor and you just draw the connection. -I'm there. I'm there.
Governor, they don't seem to want you in the conversation.
This issue as you know Dylan goes much deeper than that.
If you have a big check,
you stand first in line
and I don't call that a representative democracy.
Sometimes it's a check,
sometimes it's the threat of a check.
It's like heaven or weapon.
You could shoot the gun or just show it,
it works both ways.
And money is a weapon.
It doesn't add to the debate,
it don't increase the number of Americans,
it's in the very rich and powerful
have more of it than anybody else.
Let me put it in another way.
They have more guns than anybody.
Who wins those battles?
I know I wanted to be a teacher in seventh grade.
I wanted to make a difference for one child.
It was everything I ever wanted.
I worry about the young people in the profession,
I worry about the students' needs.
So even though I feel like I am truly a conservative,
truly a Christian conservative,
Governor Walker's agenda frightens me.
It's made me question whether or not they truly represent me
and what I believe in.
That's another teacher's home, again opulent.
You know, I don't get where regular people
have become the enemy.
You know, I've served at every level
and now you're the bad guy.
Next up I have is for Brian Cunningham.
I want to thank you for being here today
because my voice has been stolen from me.
It was hard being a correctional officer 10 years ago,
it's almost impossible now.
You pay us to go there to do that job,
Scott Walker's ACT 10 to just block that job.
He said it's about money, let's break the union,
let's break the money train to support political parties.
It's tough to go and protect the state of Wisconsin every day.
Brian, if you were thinking about what were the one or two
immediate things maybe that we should focus on
to improve safety...
Recall Walker.
Signature gathering has began in earnest.
The signing has started at 12:01 a.m.
I can't tell you how many times over the years I've been emailed
or called by somebody who is ticked off at a public official.
And he said, how do we recall that joker.
And I would say, well if it's a statewide office holder,
you need 540,000 signatures
and it would end the conversation right there.
Whoa!
Oh, that works good and then we can take it down at night.
This is my neighbor Gordy,
he lives just down the road from us.
Okay...
A lot of people say, gee you're Republican,
how can you recall a Republican?
It's like, Governor Walker is a tea partier.
Tea Party and Republicans are not the same thing
and I personally do not espouse the tea party principles
of cutting government service in order to balance our budget.
There. Now we go her done.
Yeah, get rid of that guy.
Walker is a bully and I was a union man
and if it wasn't for the union I couldn't have retired.
I had to worked until I was 100.
Both my wife and I are county workers and when I took the job,
I took a paid cut for benefits and I'm losing my benefits.
How have you been doing?
Really good.
We only have 900 people in this town
and we've already got about 50 signatures.
You don't pay taxes?
-I pay employment taxes... -What are you talking about?
Bunch of goons.
I pay employment taxes. I pay business taxes.
I pay plenty of taxes, sir.
What Wall Street did to us is just awful.
I think eventually everything comes around,
but I'm 80 years old
and sometimes I'm not sure it's going to come around,
you know, in my lifetime.
And there's my hubby pulling up.
Hey, baby, come up and see you later.
I should be around.
One of hunting buddies stop by the other day,
he signed here and the other signature is me,
but we got two.
Two in the big effort multiplied by a thousand
other little bike shops like this.
There's 2000 signatures, you know.
Every part on this motorcycle is American made.
My American dream has fallen apart here.
That's all big business, the almighty dollar
and greed and the corporate monster.
That's my opinion, kind of.
But I really don't have a reason to whine
because I don't vote.
A friend of mine, he goes,
have you gotten any use for an indoor burner like that?
I go, you bet.
So he gave it to me.
The bartering days are back here again,
have been for quite a while in this area.
I even make my own cigarettes because of the cost.
It makes me sound like a real hillbilly don't it?
It's pretty sad.
These millionaires, aren't they happy just being millionaires?
Do they really have to be gazillionaires?
Well, they're just going to keep crushing the middle class,
crushing the poor people.
And does it bother them?
No.
Just buy your way into a certain level in politics,
that ain't cool.
People should run on their merits not how much money
that so and so is dumping on their campaign fund.
That's their world of bartering.
State law will allow Governor Scott Walker to collect
unlimited donations to his possible recall campaign.
The Governor can raise unlimited cash and donors have flocked.
His top three donors are all from out of state.
Texan homebuilder Bob Perry
gave a quarter of a million dollars,
he was the man behind the 2004 swift vote
ad campaign against John Kerry.
Illinois couple Elizabeth and Robert Uihlein
gave $205,000.
Third is Wyoming investor, Foster Friess
who gave a $100,000.
On the democratic side,
Washington DC based United Food
and Commercial Workers Union gave $20,000.
State workers union AFSCME
gave just more than $11,000.
The unions don't have as much money even in our wildest dreams
as the Koch brothers themselves.
It's unfortunate and unfair
that outside millionaires from Kansas and Texas
can dump unlimited amounts of money,
but they can also through Governor Walker
and the legislature cripple our ability to do the same thing.
It's a power grab the change not only the rules of the game,
but to try to take us out of the process altogether.
Not just the wiping out of public employee unions
and collective bargaining rights,
but also the Voter Identification Law,
the redistricting, all tactical,
but tactical with an eye to the next election
and the election therefore.
There's very little proof of any serious voter fraud anywhere,
but so far 31 states have jumped on the
Voter ID bandwagon anyway.
In Madison, the state assembly is taking up the Voter ID Bill.
It was just about a decade ago
that I first introduced a photo ID requirement.
This has been a long term desire on the part of Governor Walker
to limit the electorate for the benefit of,
I believe corporate interest.
Fifty-five percent of all African-American males
in Wisconsin have no photo ID.
Forty-nine percent of African-American women
have no photo ID.
Forty-nine percent of Hispanic men,
59% of Hispanic women
and when you get to the 18- to 24-year-old group,
78% of African-American males have no photo ID.
You need a photo ID to fly on an airplane.
Well, yeah, if you're middle class you fly on airplanes,
but guess what, there are millions of Americans
that don't fly on airplanes and guess what,
you don't have a constitutional right to fly on an airplane.
As simple as things like getting cold medicine requires photo ID.
Well, unfortunately, healthcare is not a constitutional right,
but voting is.
Listen to me American, you're unimportant.
They don't care about you
because you don't bring a check.
Welcome back everyone.
In Hampshire, will pick who it believes
should be the Republican nominee
for president of the United States.
Mr. Roemer you've been quoted as saying that your GOP rivals
for president are "bought and sold."
But the bottom line is there are more debates coming
and you're not going to be able to get into
any of them, right?
In New Hampshire, they have two debates coming up
that would be nationally televised..
That's my only chance.
Buddy Roemer campaigning in the grand state today.
I think the rest of them are bullshit.
-Nice meeting you. -All right, you too.
See you, Easia.
I never had barber looked like you.
I'm a banker and forgive me for that.
Oh, yeah...
Let's get the big money out of the room.
That's me and you run the country.
All right, we could do it. We could do it.
You should see how many people are saying,
don't give up Buddy, don't give up.
He has amazing Twitter.
Whenever he gets an audience on some of those national shows,
we always get an increase in Facebook likes,
Twitter followers and donations.
We've only raised about 32,000 last week.
It was our best week ever.
We're going to Calef's for a sandwiches,
anybody wants one.
-Buddy. -Buddy, yeah.
Buddy.
He used to be the governor of Louisiana.
Oh!
I deny everything.
My name is...a Louisiana governor
that didn't go to jail..
It's the first time I've given a contribution
and it's actually the first time that I'll be voting
because I didn't think my vote mattered.
I think they're all corrupt.
I always think I'd be picking the lesser of the two evils
and I guess I saw something in him.
We bought two television commercials on the debates.
Really? Good.
So man, we are flying high.
That's good. That's real good.
That's awesome.
-We're not going to be in the debate. -Yes.
But I expect to be proud.
I expect to tweet every answer.
I expect to give them hell.
There are our new poll numbers
heading into the final weekend of the campaign.
The poll they're using has a margin of error 5.5%.
I mean just think about that, 5.5%
so if we got 1% that means that we could have gotten 6.5
and would have qualified.
Tonight, all eyes on New Hampshire.
We put them all to the test.
Seven old white men.
Governor Romney, we'll begin with you...
Ready to be the Twitter of the world, Ms. Jill?
Tweeter of the free world.
Governor Huntsman, Afghanistan.
I believe it's time to come home and I would say...
Get him out.
Come on John, get a little passion.
It's a troubled nation, they're corrupt at the top.
It's Louisiana in a bigger stage?
Buddy, you know you're as good as these guys.
I honor them, but it's frustrating.
Bullshit, you're as good as they are.
Why is Rick Perry up there and you're not?
I don't know.
Mr. 1%.
I would send troops back into Iraq because I will tell you...
Oh, man!
I think we start talking with the Iraqi...
Texas, they've done a good job for us over the years,
please.
-Do you know who the largest corporate giver is -This is us?
to policy issues in Washington?
Goldman freaking Sachs.
Go on, buddy! Man.
Is bought and sold...
They don't want you here...
They don't seem to want you in the conversation.
Wake up America, they've stolen your government.
Learn more at buddyroemer.com.
The highlight of the debate, thus far.
Is there any one on the stage you guys will be afraid of
having as a president?
Why don't you ask an easier question?
Is there anyone you trust?
Talking to Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin.
Hey Rush, great to be with you and your listeners.
Signatures are due today, is that right?
They said they're probably going to turn in 720,000 today.
We don't even know who the candidate is against us yet,
the real opponent will be this money coming in
from out of state from these government unions.
In the end, we're going to prevail,
but it's going to take a ton of support.
In the last two months, we raised more money
than any candidate for governor ever has.
Tomorrow morning it becomes official,
you're going to be facing a recall in the state.
Well, we assume it.
I mean, when the national union has got involved,
we assumed the money and the power behind it
to make that happen.
We view our opposition being primarily out of state,
special interest money and the bigger government unions.
We need to be prepared to get the message out
to spread the truth.
This is Upfront with Vicki Mckenna.
Tim Phillips, my pal,
from Americans for Prosperity out,
knocking on doors, shaking hands, kissing babies.
Tim Phillips, welcome to the show.
Vicki, it's always good to be with you.
Right now Republicans and libertarians
have a voting advantage over Democrats of plus 14
and that's because of the work of groups likes yours.
I'm telling you on the ground
for the first time in my lifetime
we're beating the left.
Black liberation and socialism.
Have you heard of black liberation before?
White European man is evil man and black liberation theology,
it's a Marxist form, so-called form of Christianity.
And that's what our president...
actually he was educated for 20 years in that church.
And don't let people tell you that there weren't
communism in Hollywood.
there were and Ronald Reagan fought those people
back in the day.
Yes, I love Ronny. I miss him. I miss the Gipper.
Now, the ubiquitous socialist fist:
I saw everywhere down in Madison,
Recall Walker, AFL-CIO, Stand with Wisconsin.
The socialist permeate all throughout the unions
in Wisconsin and across the country.
How is it we go from a republic to now we're all socialist?
It's education. It's the culture.
There's a culture war going on.
It's 1933...1934, who took over Germany?
Hitler.
And he hated what people?
The Jews.
And they were all Jews so guess where they came?
Here.
They came here to Columbia, Madison,
Berkeley, they infiltrated.
Just like the Fabians of 20, 30 years earlier
and they were the teachers of our future teachers.
I got to tell you something.
If Obama gets four more years and appoints two more justices,
I'm telling you we are done dancing as a republic.
We've got to stop him.
Republicans. Republicans.
Tea Parties, turn out June 5th
and keep Governor Walker in office
and turn out November 6th and keep out Obama.
Thank you.
I often wondered why our country get so bad,
what's causing it, what's right there.
You don't realize how it's permeated to the culture.
There was a lot of people from my church that came out and
I was so glad to see you.
I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad.
-Just good to have a teacher stand up for what's right. -We need more teachers.
He's an inspiration. Totally.
I don't think that these tea partiers
who are being sold by the river by these politicians
taking all their corporate money,
really quite realize that
in order for what they consider smaller government,
they are going to dismantle our social safety nets
and that's our grandparents, our parents
and some of our children
that will not be able to get healthcare,
that will not be able to collect their retirements.
And I mean, why are they so mad at the unions?
Unions gave us the weekend,
unions gave us the 40-hour workweeks.
Instead of being upset about what the unions
have bargained for in their contracts,
you would think that they would want to help us
bring up everyone's employment
so that everyone could have a living wage.
She got a couple of death threats over this shit
she'd been in and that.
We know where you work, we know where you live,
watch your car,
be careful when you turn the ignition.
It was one of these tea party assholes that one was.
Did you get on the phone with him or...?
No, she's told the guy,
you failed to realize my husband is a hairy biker
that believes in the castle law.
That's what she told him.
He was really upset and he was like,
maybe you should stop doing this.
And I told him and I said, you know,
the minute you do that you let them win.
I think this is worth fighting for.
Honestly, I think America is worth dying for
that's why I joined in the military in the first place.
The Tea Party sure as hell
should not be voting for Scott Walker.
Scott Walker took one and a half billion dollars
from state employes,
he gave it back to special interest groups
that is the redistribution of wealth
and that does not fall inside the Tea Party objective.
When everybody in the state is making $10 an hour,
how our any home loans going to happen?
How is anybody going to build a house?
They want to turn us into India,
we'll all be answering phones.
People like the Koch brothers
have purchased the Republican Party.
-30-13? -Yeah.
it's not my party anymore.
-All right. -It's very presidential.
My fellow tax...Americans.
If I've said "my fellow taxpayers,"
I would only be talking to half of Americans.
Three, two, one.
Last night the Republicans held
their 23rd nationally televised debate
in this primary election.
I have not been invited to a single debate,
so today we're dropping out of the Republican Party
where I've been a proud member for 21 years
and we're becoming an independent.
A 100 years ago that great Republican
who turned independent, Teddy Roosevelt,
he said the Republican Party is now facing a great crisis.
It's to decide whether it will be as in the days of Lincoln,
the party of plain people
or whether it will be the party of privilege
and of special interest,
we are prepared to challenge both parties
who were joined at the billfold they're just alike.
Watch us challenge them,
watch us put America first.
Thanks.
Great job, Governor.
We got to remember that 98% Americans
-have never heard of me. -Yeah.
-More than that. -More than that.
This is a struggle just to get your name out there.
Republicans are fighting for money, time,
and volunteers as both a recall
and presidential primary elections approach.
Have we kept you well-fed in Wisconsin?
Uh...Yeah, cheese curds.
Calista and I have shares of Packer's stock.
Is that what you call yourselves here?
Wisconsinites?
Governor Walker is one of my heroes.
Wisconsin is paying more attention to that race
than to this primary.
Let's end the civil war,
let's restore trust in the government
and let's fix this state, let's do it
and let's win June 5th.
Thank you very much. Let's go get them.
How are you going to overcome 30 million dollars
that Walker is going to spend in this election?
United States won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1980.
Thank you guys. Take care.
All this money coming into the campaign
means you owe a debt to somebody.
No, the debt I owe to is the taxpayers,
the hardworking taxpayers of the state.
I think the people around this state
and many around the country,
I mean, 76.4% of all my donations
came from people giving 50 bucks or less.
What did out of state billionaires like
Trevor Reese Jones and Bob Perry and Foster Friess
and the Koch brothers seek to get from Governor Walker?
They've contributed millions of dollars for his campaign.
More than 76% of the governor's contribution...
-I'm talking about the high dollar donors. -Sure.
More than 76% of the governor's contributions
have been for $50 or less.
-But how about the high dollar donors? -Sure.
I'm not in a position to speak
for these contributors to the campaign,
but what I can tell you is that more than 76%
of our contributions have come..
But you're not answering the question.
I'll take another question.
It's pretty transparent what the labor unions want.
What is it of high dollars donors,
I'm not talking about the low dollar,
I'm talking about the high dollar donors,
what is it that they're going to get in return...and
what do they hope to get in return?
Yeah, interestingly these donors
don't have any business in Wisconsin.
These are not people who have really a vested interest
in the state of Wisconsin,
so they don't get anything from this at all.
But don't the Koch's own six paper factories
and an oil pipeline in Wisconsin?
-You've mentioned a number of other contributors. -Sure.
Certainly, there are people who have given to Governor Walker
who have an interest in the state of Wisconsin.
More than $60 million has been spent on this recall effort,
nearly 46 million on the Republican side,
almost 20 million on the Democratic side.
Outside groups have been playing a very big role in all this.
Tim Phillips is the president of Americans for Prosperity,
a super PAC funded by the Kock brothers,
and he joins me here live.
It's good to see you.
Chris, we're not a super PAC,
we're a C4 grassroots organization.
How much have you put in Wisconsin?
Since January of last year just over $10 million.
Ten million dollars.
The day after the reforms were put forward in the legislature
before the Democrats high tailed it to Illinois,
we began running ads and supported this legislation.
It's important.
We're going to states like Florida and Ohio
and Michigan and Colorado,
educating folks candidly
on President Obama's disastrous economic record
and what folks can do about it.
If you want to look at how Citizens United
is warping politics,
there's no better place to look than the state level.
We're not only vulnerable from this onslaught of money,
we have less ability to know who these corporate spenders are
and where they get the funds to pay for all this electioneering.
Here's a phone for you.
Hannah will tell you how to get into the system.
Hi, this is Jeremy.
I'm a volunteer for Americans for Prosperity.
I just want us to let you know that Mayor Tom Barrett
has raised taxes in Milwaukee
every year but once since he became mayor.
Do you believe that Wisconsin...
Governor Walker has saved Wisconsin taxpayers...
Thank you very much for your time.
I urge you to go to Americans for Prosperity...
Do you think in the post Citizens United world,
you have more freedom to do what you have?
No. It doesn't impact us at all,
we don't do election advocacy.
Really?
Again, the Citizens United
did not impacts Americans for Prosperity
in no way, shape or form.
This is not election advocacy?
We're an issue group
and we want to make sure that Wisconsin citizens,
they've heard our side of the story.
But what about your corporate funders?
Isn't AFP just another way for them to get money
into elections?
Yeah, well we don't discuss our funding,
but we're...
Yeah, I know it's time...
We don't discuss our funding.
I think this recall process has really torn people apart.
I'm worried we're going to wreck the American way
by changing up the system.
Walker was voted in by the people of Wisconsin.
End the recall madness,
vote for Scott Walker, June 5th.
I don't want big money from out of state
with a sleek ad influencing me.
I consider myself a fairly intelligent human being
and I can figure things out for myself.
You up for petting today?
I always thought the Republican Party was a part of the people,
the common man
and that's what I am
and that's why I voted Republican.
I don't think the party represents
what it used to represent.
The most important thing that Republican Party stands for
that I will support and always agree with is the right to life.
And yet, on both ends of the life span,
they're doing things like taking healthcare
away from the children,
they are taking healthcare away from the senior citizens.
I've gone over and over and over
in my mind and in my heart,
about what I need to do at this time
that I can square with my conscience.
It's been a long, tough, decision-making process.
I'll do some thinking and praying tonight.
That's how seriously I take it.
And Tea Party actually flew me out here,
a beautiful airport you guys got.
I tell you, I think we hit two ducks and a cow on the way in.
God bless this country, I love this country.
I noticed there's no dogs around here though,
I didn't see any dogs here.
Obama had been around lately?
Huh?
What do you think he frightens me?
Yeah, he don't scare me. Yeah, what happened to him?
I don't know, it looked like a heart attack.
Our election system ain't working
because the unions control so much of it.
They actually contributed from 1989 to 2011 election, 10.
And public employees donated $465 million
and the Koch brothers donated 12 million something.
Koch brothers are donating 400 million in this election cycle.
-Who is? -The Koch brothers.
Four hundred million.
How do you know that?
Read it in paper.
Well, you read it the paper, OK.
Here! See the back, see what this says here.
You know George Soros owns
the three major broadcasting companies.
The chairman of the campaign to defeat Barack Obama
Lloyd Marcus.
I am not an African-American.
I am Lloyd Marcus, American!
Oh look. I have a photo ID.
So that confirms that black people are not too stupid
to find their way to get a photo ID.
This is why we have to vote this racist,
divisive administration out of here.
♪♪
♪ We can't go Barrack, back, back, back, back
♪ It's too late
♪ We're stuck with this Hussein-us
♪ And his spending trillion state
♪ Our children and our grandchildren
♪ They never will forget
♪ How we sold out for a little change
♪ And left them all in debt
♪ We can't go barrack, back, back baaaaak
Madison!
You know, the days of the liberals of the left
having this massive infrastructure
that overwhelms us are over.
It's a new day.
Today, you are the model for the country.
And what we're saying in Wisconsin through the Tea Party
and Americans for Prosperity and everyone else in all of you,
we're saying to every governor and every state legislator,
if you do the right thing, we got your back,
we'll be there for you.
We'll deliver the message with you.
Frankly, we'll raise the money and it takes a lot of it,
but we'll raise it, and we'll put up TV ads and radio ads.
We've got your back.
-Caitlin. -Yup.
Could you write down the numbers on the map,
To like, by the street that they're on?
No, sweetheart we're on South Street.
Okay.
Reminding you about the recall election...
Yeah.
You're all good then?
Yeah, we're good.
Hit the road.
Oh, he's like keep going. Yeah, hit the road.
-Did he really said that? -Yeah.
Remind you to get out and vote on Tuesday.
Just remind him to vote.
Don't forget.
-We're going to vote. -Thanks.
I'm a disabled veteran.
I can't get a damn thing.
My mortgage payment is 1100 a month here.
These people down at Madison are just not responsible.
Exactly.
I can't even go to McDonald's and eat.
They've broken faith with the people.
Hey, get out and vote, get out and vote.
This is our opportunity to turn this thing around.
OK, thank you.
We forget where the real power is.
You know, you could be living in a cardboard box
underneath the highway somewhere
and you at one moment in time have as much power
as the guy down the street living in the mansion.
And that's when you go to vote.
I said all my life, I wouldn't vote,
I wouldn't lower myself to their crap.
But John, this one is important.
I figured if I don't vote, I'd be pissed off
if that idiot gets in there, so...
My biggest concern is that the first time I get you to vote,
it's a darn Democrat, oh!
You have to show me how to vote,
I don't know what's going on.
Hi there.
Hello.
-My very first time. -He needs to register...
This is a historical moment. I've never voted in my life.
Well, it's never too late.
-And there's my driver's license. -OK.
I think that's a Labrador hair hanging on that there.
Just the two X's on this page is it?
Yeah.
I don't want to mess it up now that you did say to do it.
Lick the envelope and...
I am a voter.
You are a voter.
At least that's one more thing my ma can be proud of in my 50s.
Exactly.
-It makes my mother happy because I've... -Exactly.
She didn't think she'd lived long enough to see you vote.
So this is where I would vote for president, huh?
Oh, I might vote then too?
One of my earliest Sunday school lessons was taught
by my baby sister, Brenda.
She said Gwen, God loves everyone.
And just because God made me pretty and made you ugly
that doesn't mean that God doesn't love you.
Election day must be a very frightening day for people
who are very wealthy or very handsome.
You know, to know that on this one day
you are no better than your brother or your sister
and you have the same rights.
And so I urge each one of you all
to exercise this precious right.
If it weren't so precious,
they wouldn't be trying to take it from us,
isn't that right,
ain't that right, Reverend Briscoe?
So, if no other reason but just to be ornery
and to deny them the right to disenfranchise...
I voted because you didn't want me to vote.
Vote because they didn't want you to vote.
Hurrah.
We win.
All right. Have a good day.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
I made up my mind about 5:30 this morning.
And how do you feel about your decision?
It's a decision I can live with
and it's a decision between me, my God and my country
and God bless America
and Wisconsin motto is "Forward"
and regardless of the outcome today
we do have to move forward.
Another day.
Another day as an employee of the state of Wisconsin.
Go to work. Try not to get stabbed.
Try to pay attention.
Try to pay attention to what matters.
It was stolen by all that big money
and the rest of the America, they're coming for you next.
Please welcome, Governor Scott Walker.
By carrying Ohio, Wisconsin.
Michigan, Pennsylvania.
61% of union households backs the president last night.
Can we say labor delivered President Obama's second term?
Labor absolutely delivered President Obama's second term.
We should not all go home and start celebrating.
The last time we did that,
I put on my rhinestones and my black gown,
sweeping the floor and they went into the war room
and plan to defeat this president
on that very day that we were dancing.
So I'm telling you, all the chicken wings are gone,
all the Doritos have been eaten,
let's get to work.
Hey! Hey!
Organized labor's suffered a defeat today.
Michigan became the 24th right to work state.
That causes union members to decline that means fewer dues,
that means less money for political actions.
Launched in partnership with the same guys
who bank rolled Governor Walker's campaign
to undermine workers' rights.
We fight these battles on taxes and regulations,
but really what we would like to see is to
take the unions out at the knee
so they don't have the resources to fight these battles.
Who's paying your salary?
I work for Americans for Prosperity or a non-profit...
Who's paying your salary?
Americans for Prosperity I told you we're a non-profit
just like the Red Cross, just like any other nonprofit.
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PBS has been accused of scuttling a documentary called
Citizen Koch
because they feared the reaction from David Koch.
I guess for a donation of $75 you get the PBS tote bag
and for 23 million, you get the PBS's nut sack.
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