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TITLE CARD: 371 Productions Presents

TITLE CARD: A Kertemquin and ITVS co-production

[Marching band playing in parade]

TITLE CARD: GM Assembly Plant Janesville, WI

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Gayle:    Maybe from the outside, it was prison like, but on the inside it afforded you a lot of freedom. You were able to buy a home and buy a car.

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Gayle:    And a college education.

Cindy:    I considered myself middle class. Now, either you're rich or you're poor, and there's no in between.

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Angie:    My uncle, my grandfather, actually finished 30 years in that same place. I was so close. I was so close and I didn't get to do it.

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TITLE CARD: Janesville GM Assembly Plant 1923-2008

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Mary:    When the announcement came that GM was going, so did all of the related companies. Thousands of jos.

Scott Walker:    People are scared.  They're scared about the economy.  They're scared about their own job, or their spouse's job.  You don't have to be afraid anymore because Wisconsin is open for business.

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Tim:    Who shall govern us - the people, or the money?  Who's it gonna be?  The people!  The people!  The people!

(crowd chanting)

Obama:       Through hard times and good, great challenges and great change, the promise of Janesville has been the promis of America.

TITLE: As Goes Janesville

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TITLE CARD: a film by Brad Lichtenstein

TITLE CARD: co-produced by Nicole Docta

TITLE CARD: co-written and edited by Leslie Simmer

TITLE CARD: original music by Vernon Reid

TITLE CARD: 2009

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Mary:    I'm Mary Wilmer Sheedy and I'm the president here at MNI and I thought that it would be really great to get all of the banks within Rock County in a room together. Because we're all going through very similar challenges.

Mary:    2005 uh there were 300 and 8 foreclosures. 2000 and 9,

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Mary:    The number has skyrocketed to 400 and 87 recorded with 13 hundred pending.

Male:    Sheriff's department.

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Mary:    For many people it's reaching the boiling point. It's emotional, it is gut wrenching, it's affecting their children. It's affecting our entire community.

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Mary:    We all need to be motivated, do the nest we can to keep people in their homes, find solutions.

Male:    I'm, I'm the story but I think you're underestimating your numbers.

Male:    I think the storm is just starting to blow up and it's gonna hit.

Mary:    We don't want to paint a picture of gloom and doom within this community.

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Mary:    I'm encouraging people not to give up just because we've been dealt some rough cards.

Mary:    Because anyone can get there. And that's the beauty of America.

TITLE CARD: Mary Willmer, Community President, BMO Harris Bank

Mary: That's certainly the beauty of being right here.

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TITLE CARD: Janesville Christmas food drive

Tim:    Where do they go?

Male:    Go over there. Yep, you're good, you're good.

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Tim:  There was a time probably when 80% of these houses around here would be GM workers.

Doug:  And they employed 6,000 people at one time?

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Tim:    I don't think that people in Detroit that have made this decision grasp what it means to close a factory.

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Tim:    That's okay. Heavy. The human consequences are immeasurably bigger than, that the dollars that are involved. I don't care what they are.

Tim:    Good luck to you. Merry Christmas.

Male:    Merry Christmas.

Tim:    All the best Christmas you can have, good luck to you. I was co-chair of the effort to get General Motors to change their mind and stay here.

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Tim:    We made a hugely competitive package and they, they turned it down. We never heard from them again, literally.  RIght now I just want to do whatever I can to help Rock County during these difficult times.

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TITLE CARD:    Nearly 11,000 people in the Janesville area lost jobs because shut down.  More than 750 GM workers are trasferring to plants around the country.

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John:    The GM workers are being transferred down to Arlington, Texas, Kansas City, uh Fort Wayne. If they turn down the job.

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John:    Then they're severing everything that they have with General Motors - pension rights, the benefits. It's a forced move.

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Angie:    Saying my goodbyes.

TITLE CARD: Anfie Hodges 24 years at GM Janesville

Angie:    Trying to talk with my family.

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Angie:    Keep telling myself, Fort Wayne is only 4 and a half hours away.

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Angie:    And with this job, it allows me to keep my home. So I thought about it, and it's just you know it's some I need to do. Not only for myself but for him too.

TITLE CARD: D.J. Angies's Son

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[Singing happy birthday]

TITLE CARD: D.J.'s 18th birtday party

Angie:     I'm a single parent. We become real close. I took him to school every day. I would get home, off work at 3 o'clock in the morning, probably wouldn't go to bed 'til like 4 but then I get back up at 7.

Angie:    So I can get him ready.

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Angie:    His father had a alcohol problem, and he would take some things out on DJ.  So I just, I wasn't gonna have it. Just go. Just go. it was just, me and DJ.

Angie:    I mean is there really a good, I mean, to leave your, you know, your child, your, you know.

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Male:     How many times has he asked for a car? Every day?

Angie:    About every single day.

Male:     Every day?

Angie:    Every day.

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Angie:    I would take him to car shows. And show him the muscle cars. Oh I love GM muscle cars. There's nothing like 'em.

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DJ:     I want a sixty-nine, sixty-sevevn Camero. A ninety six Impala and a seventy Chavelle. Yeah.

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Angie:    The only way I can help him finacially is to leave. I mean is there really a good way, to you know leave. Leave your child?

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TITLE CARD: Eloise Angie's Mother

Eloise:     I woudn't want anybody telling me where to go. I would want my own choice.

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Angie:    I'm gonna miss coming to the shop on Thursdays, me and her. We talk on the phone for like two hours three hours even after we've left from here. She call me and we're still talking, so it's hard.

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Gayle:    [On phone] Yes, I was wondering if you guys are accepting applications at this time?

Female:    No, we are not.

Gayle:    It's been so long since I've looked for a job. I went straight to the plant at 19 years old.

Voicemail:    The mailbox is full.

Gayle:    That is Frito-Lay. There are just no jobs. There are just no jobs.

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Female:    Click on map search. You get a map of Wisconsin.

Female:    You have to be very strong, especially in this job market to be rejected so many times and to keep trying.

Gayle:    I noticed that this job here was uhm like 7.25 an hour, is that pretty much what the companies are paying right now?

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Female:    There, I hate to say it, yeah I hate to say it but because of the high unemployment.

Gayle:    Uh huh, okay.

Female:    Employers do take advantage.

Gayle:    Okay. You understand that I just wanted to -

Female:    You are not gonna find too many jobs on the assembly labor even with quality control that are gonna be giving you more than 9 dollars an hour.

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Gayle:    Did you hear her say that it's only like 9 dollars an hour? It would take 4 jobs to make at least a living. You'd have to work 4 full-time jobs. Oh!

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Gayle:    Suddenly Fort Wayne doesn't sound so bad. Still don't want to go. I still don't want to go. My head says one thing and my heart says another.

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Gayle:    All right, miss ma'am, go get the barrette, please. You know if I was to go to Fort Wayne, I'm only gonna stay 6 years.

Gayle:    I wouldn't want to take them, you know with me, cause they're so comfortable where they are. We live in a very, very small community.

[00:11:20.13]

Gayle:    Just really a, a family type atmosphere. If I could just stay here I would be so much happier.

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Male:    Good morning transferees! Now I see a lot of familiar faces in here from Janesville.

TITLE CARD: Angie

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Male:    How many you all this first move you've ever made? You all are going, got a big, tough road ahead of you.  There will be difficulties. I'm living experiences of it uh I've got one failed marriage behind me.

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Male: This is a good opportunity to check your seniority and see where you fall. They have like team coordinators, realibility, final process, final chass trim, paint, and body shop.

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Angie:    The radiator line, this was the line that I worked on back in Janesville.

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Angie:    I think I can do this. I think I can do this.

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TITLE CARD: Blackhark Technical College, Janesville

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Cindy:    Say you've got an air pocket in there, and you tip it where the air pocket, can you hurt them?

Female doctor:    Not if you're consistently pulling the plunger out.

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Cindy:     I never dreamed that I'd be in school at 41 years old.

Cindy:    Whoop.

Female:    You're very, you're very much on the surface.

Cindy:    I screwed up.

Female:    Take the tourniquet off.

Cindy:    Yep.

Female:    You're very much on the surface.

Cindy:    I mean if I can get a job tomorrow, I would go to work,

TITLE CARD: Cindy Deegan, Laid off from Alcoa after 13 years.

Cindy:    you know I mean a decent job, that I knew was gonna be secure.

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Male:    This is potassium iodine, it's stained potassium iodine in a solution.

Cindy:    I picked out lab technician cause I want to do something that at least I can physically do for another 20 years.

[00:13:34.19]

Cindy:    I don't want to go back lifting tire rims, you know.

Female:    The answer will be that number without the square root sign.

Cindy:    That bottom's the answer?

Female:  No, I'm not doing it.

Cindy:    Okay. [Sigh]

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TITLE CARD: Cindy is enrolled in a federally funded retraining program.

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Cindy:    I'm tired.

Ed:    You're tired?

Cindy:    Yes.

Ed:    How's school going?

Cindy:    Sucked. Brain fried.

[00:13:58.02]

TITLE CARD: Ed Matines, Case Manager

Cindy:    I got 17 credits. The average person has 12 you know and.

Ed:    Well you're gonna stick with it though, right?

Cindy:    Oh yeah, I got to, you know. I don't fail nothing.

Ed:    This is a good opportunity.

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Cindy:    It's just harder than I thought.

[00:14:13.08]

Sarah:    [To dog] Sit. Sit. Sit. Shake. Good girl.

Cindy:    Bills.

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Cindy:    What's really embarrassing is my homework that I had the first 3, 4 weeks, my daughter in sixth grade was doing the same homework I was doing.

[00:14:35.06]

TITLE CARD: Sarah

Cindy:    She says is your homework done? Well you can't go out if your homework's not done.  You know, no TV. She knows what's going on, and she knows, you know, money's tight.

[00:14:52.19]

Cindy:    I don't usually do the garden.

Sarah:    It's my dad's job.

Cindy:    You can just leave them on there, then, the little ones.

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Cindy:    Ooh, God.

[Dog barking, phone ringing]

Christina:        Don't you have a chemistry test today, Mom?

TITLE CARD: Christina

Cindy:    I had a chemistry test today.

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Christina:        How is, how did that go?

Cindy:    We won't talk about it.

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Cindy:    Doug's on disability now, so all we've got is unemployment and social security.  As soon as we're done with school our unemployment will be done.  That's got me worried.  I always wanted to be a teacher when I was Sarah's age, but I didn't have any financial aid or anything. ad I didn't have the money to go to college, so, that's wy I didn't go to college.

[00:15:59.17]

Cindy:  I was military for 11 years.

Doug:    Christina's going to college, or military, don't know which yet.

Cindy:    I really don't believe she wants to go. I think it's just the financial.  I will go without before my kids go without. No matter what, my kids do not have to go into the service just for schooling.

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Doug:    No, we'll be fine.

Cindy:    [Sighs]

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Mary:    Isn't it fun? Are you nervous?

Female:    Yeah.

Mary:    It'll be okay, you guys are gonna do great.

[00:16:53.06]

TITLE CARD: Mary Willmer Community Presotdent, BMO Harris Bank

Mary:    The day that we finally heard that GM was done, my daughter had some of her friends over and 5 of the 10 friends were directly impacted.  Chelsea looked at me and said, Mom, what are you gonna do?

TITLE CARD: Chelsea

Mary:    And that's all it took.

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Mary:    We're not gonna wait for government to fix our problems. We can control a lot of this ourselves. Today we are rolling out the Rock County 5 point 0 initiative. Diane and I were asked if we would co-lead a team of CEOs, private industry leaders and citizens who have the passion uhm to, to bring this county to, to the next level.

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Mary: Getting people back to work. Retaining companies. Bringing jobs into this area. That's what it's all about.

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TITLE CARD: Diane Hendrick Co-Chair, Rock Country 5.0, CEO, ABC Supply Company

Diane:     Would we like to have a state that was more pro-business and giving better incentives, of course, but you know what?  We don't.

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John:    And the business community has to talk a little bit louder than it has in the past.

Mary:    We want our kids to look at Rock County as a place to stay.

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Mary: We're at a point of change. The average wage of a GM worker here in Janesville was about twenty-eight, twenty-nine dollars an hour. Those days here are over.And I think that's ok. It's forced us all to sort of sharpen out saw, and put a new perspective on things.

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Male:    We're not an auto town anymore. Boom.

Mary:    You reinvent yourself. You get better, you get stronger.

James:    We need a splash campaign, designed for John and Jane Q. Citizen.  Joe or Jane Six Pack.

Male:    We want proselytizers. We want disciples. Put the message in people's hands and have them go out and pull people in.

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Mary:    Hi, how are you? Nice to see you. America was founded on entrepreneurs. People who dug into their pockets, pulled out their pennies and said, you know I'm gonna start a business. Congratulations, first of all on being here today and, and taking this first step. Some would say it's an awful time, but I think it's amazing.

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Mary:    Out of this will come amazing businesses and amazing opportunities. Rock County 5 point 0 is here for you, we want you to succeed.

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Mary:    People ask us everyday: what can I do to help? We need to be the ambassadors of optimism for Rock County. We want business here in Rock County and we need everyone to talk it up. I want to get Rock County turned around. The only way that's gonna happen is by putting everything on the table to get business here.

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Scott:    We're a pro-business, pro-job state and if you elect me as Governor,

TITLE CARD: Scott Walker Republican candidate for governor

Scott:    I'll give it every hour of every day until we get this thing working again cause that's what we need.

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Mary:    Opening doors, removing barriers, providing resources.

Female:    United Alloy is very proud to be a non-union shop. I have no barriers telling me you can do this, you can't do this.

Mary:    It sounds like you've got a model that absolutely works.

Female:    It does.

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Mary:    When you put the future in the hands of business owners, business leaders, you'll have success.

Male:    And the winner of the accelerate your business contest, Local Vision TV.

[Cheering]

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Male:    Good morning and welcome to the 15th state senate candidate's forum with republican Rick Richard and democrat Tim Cullen.

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Male:    Tim Cullen, take a couple of minutes uh to tell us why you're running those sorts of things.

Tim:    The number one reason which I think is why everybody's running this year is to try to improve the economy of the Rock County area.

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Tim:  We are in a real hole in Wisconsin and if either party thinks it's a great idea to get out of this hole all by themselves, I think they're nuts.  I think the public expects us to work together.  Twenty-four plus years ago, some of my best friends were Republican state senators.  

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Tim:  Hi there.  I'm Tim Cullen, I'm running for state senate.  I want to leave a brochure with you, if I could.

Female:    Oh okay.

Tim:    Since I haven't run for office in 24 years, in a sense we're starting from scratch.

[00:21:07.15]

Tim:  I'm just trying not to walk across lawns.  There's never a bad time to go door to door.

[00:21:16.17]

Tim:  (rings doorbell) I heard somebody in there.

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Tim:    How I win this thing matters a lot to me, so we're not gonna take not a dime from any lobbyists. I want to run this campaign so that I go up there my own man.

TITLE CARD: Austin Scieszinski Campaign Manager

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Tim:  Still have a, you know a bunch of these from, these are from '86.  But uhm, I generally don't clutter up a sign with like vote for uhm state senate.

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Tim:     One of the things I'd like you to do is to figure out, you know how do we make sure that we have the best campaign on the internet?  All the various uhm Facebook or whatever there are, some Facebooks or sites I know, that but, so, so the internet issue, I'd sort of like turning it over to you.

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Tim:    Credit belongs to the man who was actually in the arena, who's face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.  And if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Sort of how I try to lead my life.

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Announcer:    Are you hungry for growth? Interested in expanding your development and investment perspectives?  Then consider Rock County, Wisconsin's value proposition.

Male:    We were searching for a location that had a solid infrastructure and a business friendly environment.  Rock County and the Beloit community matched these requirements.

Announcer:    Our professional and seasoned economic development team has a solid track record.

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Announcer:    Visit Rock County Development Alliance at w-w-w-dot-rock-county-alliance-dot-com.

Male:    There she blows.

Mary:    Yay!  Woo! Very nice! Perfect.  It's not that long. I mean it goes by really, really fast.

James:    I think this one warrants 5 minutes because it's so damn good.

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Mary:    It's awesome. I mean it's professional yet it's got a good feeling.

James:    We need to make sure that this thing goes viral and each and every time somebody talks about Rock County this needs to be part of the discussion.

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TITLE CARD: May, 2010

Gayle:    The last meal before I leave.

TITLE CARD: Gayle has given up her job search and will commute to GM in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Gayle:     : It's ain't easy. It's not an easy decision to make. If I didn't take Fort Wayne when I did, instead of being 4 hours away, I would have to be 8 hours away.

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Skyler:    Today at school people kept asking me why was I crying, I was like my mom's moving. I don't get to see her every day.

TITLE CARD: Skylar, 9 years old

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TITLE CARD:     Spencer, 12 years old

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Spencer:        She said that she'll be here every weekend, but she's my mom.  Really don't like that.

Gayle:    You shouldn't tell Daddy and them bye.

Male:  You takin' this?

[00:24:31.20]

TITLE CARD:     The girls are going to a family party so they won't to watch their mom leave.


Female:    Oh okay.

Male:    You sure?

Female:    Bye.

Male:    Grandma will get that. Call me there, too!

[00:24:49.00]

Gayle:    Voila. With Spencer in the sixth grade, you know that's all her years in school. When you're away, that can seem like a lifetime.

[00:25:08.09]

TITLE CARD: Time is driving Gayle to Fort Wayne, then flying back alone.

Tim:    You gonna be all right?

Gayle:    Yeah. I'm gonna be fine. I'll be fine.

Tim:    See, you strong, but you won't let me see you do anything.

[00:25:22.08]

Gayle:    No, I'm good.

Tim:    Okay, if you say so. I'm gonna see you.

Gayle:    I love you.

Tim:    All right. I'll take care of the girls. Don't worry about it.

Gayle:    I know.

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Tim:    All right. There you go.

[00:25:43.22]

Skyler:    [Crying on phone]

Gayle:    Sky. It's okay, baby, I promise you it is. Huh?

Skyler:    I know.

Gayle:    Okay. Sweetie.

Skyler:    (unintelligible)

Gayle:    Okay.  You gonna say your, your prayers for me?

[00:26:06.04]

Skyler:    Yeah.

Gayle:    Okay, go ahead.

Skyler:    Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.

Gayle:    First night is always the worst and all that maybe.

[00:26:29.02]

Gayle:    Here it goes.

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TITLE CARD:  ABC Supply Co. Inc. Diane Hendricks, Founder and COB

Diane:    What's the workforce that was let go, 2 years ago? How many of the workforce?

TITLE CARD: Diane Hendricks

Mary:    They're gone. Yeah, they're gone.

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Diane:    They've either been paid off, retired, relocated.

Mary:    They're all creating businesses. I know 4 of them who have started up small businesses here.

Diane:  That's good.

[00:27:12.00]

Mary:    Any other things in the hopper? Any companies in the hopper that anybody's working on?

[00:27:17.03]

James:    Generally January is a barometer of how the calendar year is gonna be.

Mary:    Oh, let's not go there, mister gloom and doom, we're not going there.

James:    This, no no no, this - I'm cautiously optimistic.

Male:     If you opened a plant here, how fast could you hire and train a new workforce?

Mary:    Quickly. Easy.

Male:    So the fact that all those people are gone is perhaps in the plus column, because they can pay less.

Diane:    Oh, a lot less. And I mean.

Mary: I think we're right over the edge here. Get us over the hump.

[00:27:54.02]

TITLE CARD:    Fort Wayne, Indiana

[00:28:02.20]

Angie:    I don't know, couldn't sleep. Had all these thoughts going through my mind, about woman being along in apartments and people breaking in and, my fear is the unknown.
 
[00:28:17.05]

Woman:     It ain't that bad. You'll be alright.

Angie:    That's what everybody says.

Woman:    Change is good.

Angie:    It probably would've been good if I was twenty-five.

[00:29:10.00]

Angie:    When I got the phone call, I couldn't even talk. Yeah. It was my mother. She said uh, DJ was in an accident. And I felt helpless.  All I could think about was getting back here. Getting back here. And he had fractures in his spine.  Back, head. Why did I help him get that car and why didn't I make him come down Fort Wayne with me?

[00:30:00.08]

Angie:      And if I were there, would it have happened? Oh, my God.  

[00:30:23.08]

TITLE CARD: Election Day, 2010

Male:    Hi, Richard, I'm calling from the Democratic party campaign here in Janesville. I just wanted to give you a call and uh thank you so much for all the help -

John:    Two years ago before the uh GM plant closing, we'd be a pack of people coming and going.

TITLE CARD: John Dohner President, UAW Local 95

[00:30:35.01]

John:    And uh getting their assignments, and now we're down to a few volunteers.  

Austin:    Hopefully we can retain control of one of the Houses, but the Democrats getting beat pretty good.

[00:30:53.02]

Announcer:    Tonight all predictions from both parties show Republicans making big gains and Democrats could be looking at historic losses.

Tim:    Kind of a tough night, mixed, mixed night.  

[00:31:02.16]

Announcer:    We have early returns that are showing the Republican candidate with a huge margin.
 
Mary:    Woo!
 
[00:31:07.09]

Mary:    The numbers are looking really good so, we're all pretty pumped.  

Austin: Things are not looking good for Rodger either.

Austin:    I just got more results. Harris Elementary, we got 6-11, 4-41. Uh Janesville 12 5-63 to 400.

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[Chanting "Go Scott Go"]

Scott:    Tonight, I want to tell. Tonight I want to tell every business, big or small in this state, that you have an ally in the Governor's office. Come today, you don’t' have to be afraid anymore, because Wisconsin is open for business.

[Cheering]

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Tim:    If Kreitlow and Layman are out, it doesn't matter. We're in the minority. The serious work starts now, and I'm looking forward to going to Madison and working with Governor-elect Walker. I worked with Republicans many times in the past, and I'll work with them again.  

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TITLE CARD: Tim is the only Democrat from Rock Country elected to the legislature.

Tim:  (long sigh)

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Announcer:    It is being called a GOP sweep, and a tea party tidal wave.

Gayle:    Lord we in a world of hurt after Tuesday. I ain't never felt so sad.

Spencer:    Why?

Gayle:    Cause Republicans took over the House. And the Republicans think that the poor should not be poor. The reality, there is poor amongst us and we are to take care of the people that's less fortunate.

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Gayle:    And the Republicans feel that everybody should pull themselves up by their boot straps and get on out there and you know.

Spencer:    Boot strap.

Gayle:    Well that's what they feel. And everybody can't do it.  

Tim:    Everybody doesn't have the resources that they do.

Gayle:    When you think about how the economy is now and the Republican party didn't even want to extend unemployment, and stuff like that, it's like we're living in two different countries. It's like them against us.  

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TITLE CARD: Janesville Country Club Rock 5.0 meets with newly elected legislators.

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Mary:    I know as I kind of listen to all of your platforms throughout your campaign you all had the same theme, you know do we need to continue to leverage uh the potential here? Absolutely.

John:    I'm sure there are people,

TITLE CARD:    John Beckord President, Forward Janesville

John:    in the, especially in the Republican party who feel, man this is a great opportunity to get all these social issues dealt with right now.  Boy, I tell you what. Can we focus, please? Go about your work, viewing everything you do through a prism. Does it help us recover and create jobs

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Diane:    You know if we had more attractive rules, policies, I mean the state is so heavily controlled by the unions.  And the laws are written in favor of the unions.
 
Male:    And it's a problem.

Diane:    It's a problem.

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Joe:    Another thing is wasteful spending, and I have, my ears are open to all of you because you guys are the minds. I am the tool.

TITLE CARD: Joe Knilans State representative (R)

TITLE CARD: Amy Loudenbeck State Representative (R)

Amy:    I want to be your ambassador of optimism.  I see where government can be more of a resource than a roadblock, absolutely.

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Tim:     When I was in the Senate before, uh all 12 years that I was there uh as a Democrat uhm at least 2 of the 3 state representatives in my district were Republicans.  I had uhm great relationships with them and I'm looking forward to having great relationships with the other people around the table.

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Diane:    We're not gonna go away.

Tim:    We're not, either.
 
Diane:    I know.

Female:    That's it, we're good.

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Cindy:    [On phone] Uh the mammogram was done on Thursday. The clinic. Shit.
 
Christine:    What?

Cindy:    I got a lump. I gotta go get an ultrasound then. My grandma died of breast cancer, so. Yeah, so.  

[00:34:56.12]

Female:    And your name?

Cindy:    Cynthia Deegan. Right now I've been able to keep my Cobra for insurance. In December I'll be uninsured.

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Sarah:    Do you have breast cancer?

Cindy:    It's just a lump. So.

Sarah:    Tumor?

Cindy:    Don't know yet. That's why I went to the doctor. I won't know nothing.

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Scott:    We have both an economic and fiscal crisis in the state. When it comes to the fiscal crisis, uh the reality is that we have to get uh this current budget uh the soon to be forthcoming budget, and budgets for decades to come in line.

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Tim:    It's is your day, not ours, and thanks all to you for, for being here.

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Male:    Uhm I'm here today because I'm very concerned about the cuts that are being made to education.  

Male:    I come uhm as a person with chronic illness.  I have deep concern for Governor Walker's cuts of Medicaid.

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Cindy:    Actually they're cutting the veteran's benefits, too, I mean it just it seems like we're supposed to be coming out of this recession and I don't see no light at the end of the tunnel, and it's, I'm scared.

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Diane:    We want to welcome Governor Scott Walker to our, uh, our county. So we're really, we're really please and proud that you took the time to be here today.

Scott:    Everything we do has got to be about how do we make it easier for the private sector, not the government, but the private sector to create more jobs in this state, and I think it fits in beautifully with what Rock County 5 point 0 is talking about. Over at the uh state line.

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Scott: Uhm we're gonna unveil a sign like this.   Instead of saying the name of the Governor, I want it to say open for business. We're putting in place changes now to lower the tax burden on small businesses, but major changes when it comes to regulatory uh requirements in the state.

Mary:    You, you just made our job a whole lot easier than it's just fabulous, so thank you for, for what you're doing.

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Larry:    And for too many decades,

TITLE CARD: Larry Arft City Manager of Belout, WI

Larry:    it's been almost a cornerstone of the Wisconsin political culture. It there's a national standared, we're gonna go above it. We have a higher minimum wage, and Family Medical Leave Act and even civil rights legislation means of course more cost to business and government to meet the higher level of benefits.


James:    At the end of the day, economic development is about elimination, and if we can help eliminate and mitigate those issues that are currently viewed as a burden, that's gonna help place us in a much more competitive process.

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Mary:     I've got kids in high school, and I hear them talking about you and what you're doing cause they're seeing it. I didn't hear that before.

Scott:    Oh wow.

Mary:    And it's making a difference.

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Mary:  Now is the time we really can have some fun with it and attract business into Rock County. St. Mary's Dean made the decision to build this hospital and clinic at the exact same time as the GM announcement came down.

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Mary:    It took courage and guts on their part to do this, and what it means for us is tremendous, tremendous jobs.

Kerry:    Yeah, certainly we'll have entry level positions in the hospital for housekeeping, food service, uh but I think we have people in the community that are, are very capable. Uhm stepping in and taking those jobs.

Kerry:    It's a decent wage. Medical technician gets probably around 13 to 15 dollars.

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Mary:     It also changes the dynamics of who we are in Rock County because now we're gonna have 4 hospitals. You're bringing doctors in from all over the country, so home sales, bigger homes will start to sell, and growth around the medical community.

Vic:    You know the biggest challenge is dispelling the myth, Janesville is crushed because GM left.

TITLE CARD: Vic Grassman Director of Economic Development, Janesville

Mary:    So we're feeling optimistic, actually.  Ambassadors of optimism.

Greg:    Good news is we continue to move the technology forward agressively, and uh, so far we haven't hit any major road blocks.

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Greg:    Oh man. [Laughs] there's a lot of work going on in here.

TITLE:  Shine Medical Technologies, R & D Facility

Greg:      This, this technology alone you know is gonna put whatever city it ends up in on the map. This industry will provide medical isotopes to the United States, uhm 20 million patients a year.

TITLE CARD: Greg Piefer CEO, Shine Medical Technologies

Greg:    We would probably be staffed with about one hundred and twenty folks. We're in the midst of evaluating three very competitive offers in Wisconsin. ALl three sites, uh, do really want this.

Mary:     That's why I keep asking the same quesiton, what else can we do?

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Mary:    The city council is providing the package, upwards of six, seven, eight million. It's a huge deal, but it's necessary.

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Greg:     At the end of the day, it's a business decision. Let the market compete.

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Tim:    Well we have, really kind of a legalized blackmail system right now uhm you pay up or the jobs don't go in your city or your state. Uhm and uhm those are the rules of the game today. I don't like them, uhm but those, those are the rules.  I think this whole Shine deal is indicative of the very difficult straits that Rock County is in economically.

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Eric:    There is risk.

TITLE CARD: Eric Levitt Janesville City Manager

Eric:    They may never produce this product because it hasn't even been proven yet, and that's what they're trying to do is prove what, they're trying to produce a product, product in a way that's never been produced before.

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Mary:    Some people say why not take this money that you're looking at incenting companies with, and give it to social needs.  But you can hand a, a man or a woman a basket of fish and they'll eat today, or you can teach them how to fish.  And they'll fish for their, in, in, in fish and ultimately eat for their lifetime. That's what we're trying to do here.

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TITLE CARD: Sarah and Doug Deegan

Doug:     They was bought four or five years old and doing this. We always cut out own meat up.

Cindy:    It's Sarah's turn. She's taken over my part.

Doug:     Really?

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Cindy:    They held my unemployment again.  And there's cuts in all these different programs.  My insurance went from 54 dollars to 95 dollars and 67 cents, so I'm approximately 300 and 10 dollars unemployment.  95 dollars is going for my medical. I'm screwed. It's loud. Good morning, I have an appointment uh that I'm late for, 8:45.
 
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Cindy:    Cynthia Deegan.

Female:    And your name?

Cindy:    I applied for this job, working in the sheriff's department. It'd be a hard decision to make, you know, cause I'll lose my school benefits if I take the job. And I won't be able to go back to school and get paid for it, so.

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Cindy:    They're gonna have good medical benefits, it'll make you think twice about schooling versus, here and now. Pay the bills now.

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Cindy:    Oh, that was not good. That was not good at all. Oh, stress.

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Angie:    You thief. All I can think about was him, trying to get home to him. While I'm trying to help DJ, they terminate me.
 
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Angie:    I'm like with insurance, I mean the bills, I'm like why in the heck would you do something, and I've done nothing wrong. Nothing.

TITLE CARD: Eloise Angies's mom
 
Eloise:    Oh my God. That don't make no sense.

Angie:    No kind of sense whatsoever.
 
[00:43:34.04]

Angie:    I said I haven't pulled sick leave papers in 24 years I've been there. I haven't, no absentees or trouble, no nothing.  I said have them pull my records. Well, unfortunately they don't do that anymore.  

Female:    Right, right.

Angie:    I'm not choosing my job over my over my son. They made me feel like I had to choose.

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Eloise:    Right. Right.

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Tim:  They have a parent in the home that does everything.  I'm Mister Mom.  On an average day, I'm up 5:30.  Iron their clothes the night before.  Make sure all their homework is done.

Skyler:  (laughing) Stop it!

Tim:  The only luxury is, I don't have to go to work and I'm retired.  I was granted disability through General Motors.

[00:44:26.16]

Tim: I was carrying some doors from the paint department, down to the body shop, and I slipped on some substance. I've got a prosethetic ankle. So they reattached that.

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Tim:    I take pride in combing their hair and making sure that they go to school and that they're presentable, just as if their mom was at home.  

Tim:     All right, little girl. Love you.

Skyler:    Bye.

Tim:    See you 11:30. Whatever God has in His plans for us, we'll survive. We always do.

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Gayle:    I'd switch places with him in a minute, if I could do what he's doing, I'd do it. And I'd send him to Fort Wayne.

[00:45:28.14]
 
Gayle:    The automotive industry, we're in the middle class. Unskilled labor at a decent wage. Where else is it??

[00:45:39.15]

Gayle:    If the middle class was still buying houses and all that, and still fueling the economy, it would, we wouldn't be in a recession.  Cause the rich still got money and the poor never had it.

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TITLE CARD: 6:55am end of third shift

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Gayle:    Hey, baby! How are you? How's Lexi?

Skyler:    Good.

Gayle:    I can feel your heart beating.  

Spenser:    Love you.

Skyler:    No, come out to eat with us.

Gayle:    It's good to be home.

Skyler:    I'm gonna go sleep in your room tonight.
 
Gayle:    You are? Okay, we gonna sleep in.

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Dinae:     Hey Governor Walker.

Scott:     Good to see you. Thanks for having me.

Diane:     Thank you for being here.

Mary:     Hi Mary Wilmer.

Scott:     Good to see you again, yeah, yeah.

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Diane:     Any chance we'll ever get to be a completely red state? Work on these unions? And become a right to work?

Scott:     Oh, yeah. In fact...

Diane:     What can we do to help you?

Scott:     Well, we're going to start in a couple weeks, with our budget repair bill. The first step is, uh, to go with uh, collective bargainin for all public employees. Which is divide and conquer. I need law makers to vote on it, but the key is by tying it to the budget, there's no way to unravel it.

Mary:    You're right on target. That's what we need.

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TITLE CARD: Four weeks later

Scott:    This morning we are introducing the budget repair bill, for the remainder of fiscal year 2000 and 11.  We are making fundamental reform changes in our wage and benefits structure, in our entitlement structure, and in terms of the collective bargaining process, there may some leaders in some of the unions who will be upset with this. But we face about a 3 point 6 uh billion dollar deficit, and if you're gonna negotiate, you gotta have something to offer.

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Announcer:    Are we going to let them strip away our rights and freedom?

Crowd:     Hell no!

Announcer:    Are we going to let them break the back of the middle class of Wisconsin?

Crowd: No!

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Announcer:    Governor Walker seems downright undaunted by the mayhem in Madison. He sent the resounding message he could not be bullied by union bosses.

Scott:    If you're going to negotiate, you've got to have something to offer. We don't have something to offer. We're laying it out on the table.

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[Crowd chanting "Kill the bill"]

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Announcer:    There's a war brewing, folks. Newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker is on a mission to destroy basic union rights for all of Wisconsin's public employees. You know what that is, folks? That's union busting 101.

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[Crowd singing]

Tim:    This is fifty years of Wisconsin law, and he wanted to wipe it out in three days. What's really most gone, is what's unnecessary to the bill, is to fix the budget in the next five months.

Male:    Senator, why aren't you in Wisconsin, doing your job?

Senator:     I was.

Male:    Why, why didn't you, why didn't you, why did you flee the state, sir?

Announcer:    The Democrats of the Wisconsin state senate fled. They hot tailed it, so the Senate Republicans could not take the vote they wanted to take to strip union rights from people who work in the public sector.

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Tim:    We left the state to slow that bill down, and give people more of a chance to think about it, particularly to give some Republican state senators a chance to maybe consider modifying it.

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Scott:    Whether they agree with the bill or not, have the guts to show up and do your job. Don't hide out in another state.
 
[00:49:27.17]

TITLE CARD: Somewhere in Illinios three days into the standoff.

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Tim:    I don't give a shit whether he's mad or not. People who are in positions of public trust have an obligation to resolve the issue, and not just stand on two sides of the road and just yell at each other, which is about what is going on right now in Wisconsin.

Shepherd:    So you're not gonna answer how long it is you're willing to hold out here?
 
[00:49:43.05]

[Crowd chanting Shame, shame, shame]

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TITLE CARD: Senator Glenn Grothman (R)

Tim: On our side, you didn't get enough if you sold out too cheap. On their side you give them reneegades in Illinois anything. I've met with the governors cheif of staff, deputy cheif of staff. We have past the point where we are accomplishing anything here. We are just sitting here because it's easier to sit here than it is to take an action. If I thought there was a deal, I would go back and try to sell it, but the two sides have gotten very ridgid.

[00:50:18.01]

[Crowd chanting "Power to the people"]

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TITLE CARD: two weeks into the standoff

Tim:    This, this attempt to get some kind of a compromise uhm is difficult when one side wants to uhm essentially destroy the right of collective bargaining, and the other side wants to retain it.
 
Announcer:    There is a smoking gun in Wisconsin. A prank phone call, of all things, between Governor Scott Walker and a reporter pretending to be billionaire Republican money man David Koch.

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Fake Koch:    Now you're not talking to any of these Democrat bastards, are you?

Scott:    Uh, there's one guy that's actually voted with me on a bunch of things I called on Saturday for about 45 minutes.

Fake Koch:    Now what's his name again?

Scott:    Uh his name is Tim Cullen.

Fake Koch:    All right, I'll have to give that man a call.

Scott:    Well actually in his case, I wouldn't call him and I'll tell you why.  he's pretty reasonable but he's not, he's not one of us. He's not there for political reasons, he's just trying to get something done.

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Scott:    He's not a conservative. He's just a pragmatist.

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Tim:    I guess there's no room in government if your just trying to quote, get something done. Um, if you're not ready to push the right wing agenda, no need to bother with them.

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TITLE CARD: 20th day of standoff

Male:     No, no, no!

Barca:     Whether good cause exists, the governmental body,

TITLE CARD: Rep. Perter Barca (D)

Barca:    the governement should provide twenty four hours notice. If you've been shutting people down, it is improper for you to move forward, while this is a violation of the open meetings law.

Male:    This is wrong.

Barca:    You're not allowing amendments and that is wrong. Now Mr. Chairman, this is a violation of law! This is not just a rule, it's the law.

TITLE CARD: Republicans use a parliamentary maneuver to end collective bargaining while Democrats are in Illinois.


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[Chanting "Shame!"]

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Announcer:    Some Janesville students are planning to walk out of class to protest the school board's decision to cut nearly 100 classes. The proposed cuts are an attempt to fill a nearly 10 million dollar budget shortfall.

[Chanting "Save our classes, save our schools."]

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Tim:    For the first time in my memory, we take a couple hundred million dollars out of the general fund, intended for education and health care, and shift it over to highways. That's never, never occurred before.

[00:52:37.12]

TITLE CARD: Forward Janesville offices


 
Dave:    Scott Walker has said our contract has wiped out the school district. You haven't raised taxes in 2 years and, and now all of a sudden you're facing a financial dilemma that's not really a dilemma, you know that you've put this out there and told people it's a dilemma.

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Mary:     We're all incredibly nervous about how our school district is being viewed. It impacts our ability to drive new businesses and keep businesses here in the community. So, we have a tremendous vested interests into what happens.

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John:    The one issue that I don't think teachers and school unions will ever win with the general public and the business community, is the benefit cost issue. Now, let me finish. The teachers' unions should move in a different direction because I don't think you can ever win that.  

Dave:    Well, really? I mean, really? They are gonna pay teachers less next year than they did this year.  Everything's the teachers' faults. Everything, everything, I mean we're gonna lay off 200 people on Monday.

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Dave:    200 teachers. Nobody else! 200 teachers are gonna be laid off on Monday.  

Male:    Dave, you ought to count yourself lucky because the Providence school district today sent out 28 hundred and 30.

Dave:    They laid them all off!

Male:    They laid them all off, I mean we, we only did 200!

Dave:    That's right! By God, go Providence, Rhode Island!

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Mary:    I was talking to some teachers and they said, you know we're so angry about all this stuff and I said, you know I said I know you're angry, I know you're upset. I'm, I'm upset, I'm concerned, but before you type something on that internet, before you blog, think about it, because it becomes a permanent statement about our community.

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Mary:    We've got a company we're recruiting that will imploy scientists at a high level. I mean, we need everyone out there selling.

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TITLE CARD: March 12, 2012

TITLE CARD: Democratic senators return to Madison.

Miller:     It's time to take back our state. And with your help, and with our assembly's help,

TITLE CARD: Sen. Mark Miller (D) Democratic Caucus Leader

Miller:    and with all the people out there in the great state of Wisconsin, we will have our state back.

[clapping]

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Cheering]

Female:    Thank you. Thank you.

Tim:    Thank you, thanks. Thanks.

[Chanting "Thank you!"]

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Gayle:    [Chanting "We're with you!"] I wanted her to understand that it's important to fight for whatever it is that you believe in.  We built this county on the back of union workers. I want her to understand. It wasn't the company that was giving days off work and 8 hour work days. It was the union that did that.  

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Tim:    This fight is as old as democracy come down to the simplest question of all: Who shall govern us - the people or the money? Who's it gonna be? The people.

[00:56:31.19]

Tim:    The people. The people.
 
Gayle:    [Singing God Bless America]

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TITLE CARD: Janesville's annual business banquet

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Mary:    Hi. I'm Mary Wilmer Sheedy. This is horrible. I'm really enjoying getting yelled at today.

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Mary:    Have you met Dr. Greg Peifer yet?

Greg:     Just Greg.

Male:     Nice to meet you.

Greg:     Nice to meet you.

Mary:    Bill is one of the owners of Rock Road, which does the interstates and the hightways. You name it, he does it all. And he has a company in Madison and is looking at our area.

TITLE: Greg Piefer Shine Medical Technologies

Greg:    Yeah we're looking at a, it's a start-up right now. We're actually looking at putting our production facility in Janesville.
 
[00:57:38.03]

Mary:    Is he here yet? That's what I thought. That's fun.

Female:    The Governor is not showing up until a minute before he goes onstage.

Female:    Oh good. I need to leave.
 
Mary:    Where are they keeping him?

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TITLE: Dan Cunningham Forward Janesville

Dan:    We had to hire a lot more security than we normally would have, but uh. We thought about what would happen if there was a coordinated blockage of all the intersections surrounding the hotel. I mean, what if somebody pulled all the fire alarms in the middle of his speech?

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Female:    [Singing the Star Spangled Banner]

Scott:    Thank you. I want to thank you for the welcome, wow. [Applause]

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Scott:    Uh, it's kind of funny because I realize tonight, normally, I pulled this out but it's kind of hard to compete with this so I'm gonna have to fold that up and put it in my pocket and take it on the road. It's one thing to put up a sign, it's another thing to show that your actions speak louder than your words.

[Applause]

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Scott:  Our reforms ultimately help protect middle class jobs and middle class taxpayers. With your help, we're gonna put this great state back to work. Thank you so much for having me.

[Applause]

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Female:    I do want you to understand, and we will sit down and really make sure that you understand the calculation.

Cindy:    Oh, I got that phone call that I was supposed to -

Female:    Okay.

SUBTITLE:  Hi Cindy, this is Dr. Adams, how are you?

Cindy:    [On phone] Hello. Hi. Hi.

[00:59:54.02]

Adams:    We have the results of your breast ultrasound.

[01:00:18.09]
Cindy:  Uh huh. Better. So I just have to monitor and make sure it doesn't get any bigger, so.  Good news. Done, done, done.

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TITLE: GM Assembly Fort Wayne, Indiana

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TITLE: Mark Orr Bargaining Chairman, UAW Local 2209

Mark:    If you get fired, I'm the person you're going to be spending a lot of time with on the phone, trying to get you re-umployed for whatever you allegedly had done. In that situation with a son injured very severely, the last thing you want to think about is your job.  

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Mark:    There was a disconnect. Management didn't get the story that they should have got, what was really, truly going on.  The benefit rep called me and says we've got a problem. I said I'll take care of it in the morning then and we made some phone calls and we got it taken care of.

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Angie:    I have a stack of papers like this, a stack of papers, so I give them to my union representative.  So I got wrote up, it's a whole year stays on your record, and that left the bad taste in my mouth and so now, you know.

TITLE: Kenny Angie's Brother

Kenny:    You just want to finish and get out.

Angie:    I just, yeah I just want to do my time, and just leave, you know.

Kenny:    And that's bad, cause it sound like a prison. I just want to do my time.

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Angie:    It's a lot of things I don't agree with the union on, it's a lot of things I don't, but I'm glad that they're there. I couldn't imagine not having a union in the workplace.

Kenny:    You remember back in the day people said oh I have me a union job.

Angie:    I got a union card.

Kenny:    Now it's, people don't even do that, they be like oh I got union.

Angie:    Union, oh that's a bad thing.

Male:    Yeah.

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Kenny:    Why would you want to destroy, mess up a union and all that when union uh jobs and stuff set standards for everybody else?

Male:    Do people get that?

Angie:    They set the pay scale for that.

Male:    I don't think people get that, so if they uh lower our wages, you know people's wages and stuff that is in a union, what you think that's gonna do for you? It don't have anything to do with the budget, it is politics, though.

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Kenny:    You know, cause you know union people they get together and they pay money and you know, get out the vote for Democrats.

Angie:    They typically vote for Democrats.

Kenny:    And so have you noticed all Republican governors and whatever that's who's doing it.

Angie:    We just don't want you to vote Democratic, that's why.

Male:    Well you know, break it up.

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Male:    Break it up.

Angie:    Yeah.

Eloise:    Scott Walker, woo! I don't know what I tell you if I had my way with him I don't know.

Kenny:    Recall.

Eloise:    Recall, I hope he get recalled. Yeah.

[01:02:35.22]

Announcer:    It's a day for democracy in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Democrats needed to collect about 500 and 40 thousand signatures to trigger a recall election against Walker. Today, they delivered more than one million.

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Tim:    Hi.

Female:    How are you?

Tim:    Good. Glad you're, glad you're here.  Yeah, I'm trying to.

[Cheering]

Sarah:    Thank you so much for attending this momentous occasion. I'm Sarah Flavus.

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Sarah:    And I'm here to welcome you, to this -

[Cheering, then chanting "Recall Walker"]

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Stephanie:    Good afternoon everybody. My name is Stephanie Platz and I am proud to be your secretary of tourism.

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Tim:    Thank you.

Male:    14 heroes! We have 14 heroes.

Male:    Listen to the people.

Tim:    What I want to say is I'm happy that everybody's here.  Uhm but I came here as a state senator to do my job and uhm I, I think the best thing we can do regardless of how you feel, is, is to let this program go forward. There's a lot of opportunity afterwards to, to resume how you feel. I know how strongly it is.

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Tim:    But I think that it would really be more respectful to the secretary and to the Governor to uh let this program go forward.

[Applause, then boos]

Scott:    I believe we've done a great job with the secretary of the department of transportation, and I want to thank you for it.

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Scott:    We put up a sign that said Wisconsin is open for business. That's one of those things where you got a lot of ______.

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[Singing [Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye"]

[Chanting "Recall Walker"]

Tim:    What?

Male:    You're despicable.

Tim:    I'm despicable because I denounce protest. I just asked people to be quiet while they spoke.

Male:    I so agree.

Tim:    Well he doesn't.

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Male:    You're a fake liberal, you're not a real liberal.

Tim:    A fake liberal. Whoa, man.

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Gayle:    I just made some homemade soup for them for the soup for them for the week.  I made meatloaf and mashed potatoes today and baked beans leftover from Saturday.  Mmm, does that look good?

Gayle:     We hear rumors that they, they want to hire seniority people out in order to bring in the fourteen dollar an hour, two tier uh, employers, and truly I hope that's what they want to do, because they don't want me out more than I want them out.

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Gayle:    This here is tthe key to my success. It's either retirement or the lottery, whichever comes first. I think it's gonna be the lottery. Okay.

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Cindy:    Pretty proud.

Ed:    Nice, straight As.

Cindy:    Yeah, that's hanging up on the refrigerator at home.  My daughter says, Mom, nobody likes a bragger.

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Cindy:  Am I supposed to wear that thing into the thing or am I supposed to.  Is that the honor cords go?  I don't even know that.  Oh.  Oh, I don't feel good.

[Song playing: Pomp and Circumstance]

Male:    Where's the beanie?

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Announcer:    Clinical laboratory technician, Cynthia Deegan. [Cheers]

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Cindy:    Everyday I'm on here seeing what's new. I went to job fair, I'm putting in applications, I'm putting in resumes.  I didn't think it'd be this hard, to find a job. I thought with a degree, you know I don't know.

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Cindy:    It's depressing. It wouldn't be as stressful if I had unemployment coming in, you know.

TITLE:  Cindy's unemployment ended 6 weeks ago.

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Cindy:    I got two kids sitting on their ass watching TV and they can't even pick up after themselves and it drives me nuts.

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Female:    Lab tech. You know the only thing that I can think of that we have open right now is a lab glass washer position.

Cindy:    Okay.

Female:    Part-time position, it's gonna be 20 hours a week.

Cindy:    20 hours?

Female:    Uhm, so you'd be using some of the principles that you learned, all of the glassware that we use in the lab need to be cleaned and sterilized.

Cindy:    Yeah.

Female:    So that the researchers.

Cindy:    Auto plate, or.

Female:    Exactly.

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Cindy:    Uh what kind of uh salary is that or -

Female:    Uhm that position's probably around 10 or 11 an hour.

Cindy:    10 or 11.

Female:    These are not current openings.

Cindy:    Okay.

Female:    But it help you to understand the titles so when you go to the website, you'll have a better idea.

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Cindy:    So, are you with human resources, or.

Female:    Yes I am.

Cindy:    So when Cindy Deegan comes across, you'll remember the name, right?

Female:    No, I won't.

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Female:    All right, thank you very much. I appreciate you coming by.

Cindy:    Thank you.

Female:    Okay.

Cindy:    Well I might as well do Frito Lay.

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Cindy:    So, actually I have worked at Frito Lay.

Male:    You have.

Cindy:    Yes, back around '92 uh I was a packer uhm is this the Beloit one or -

Male:    No, this is actually the sales side of the business here in Madison.

Cindy:    Okay, okay, the sales side, so.

Male:    Let me say goodbye to this gentleman, sir?

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Tim:    This is unbelievable. Every vote is basically 19 to 14, the Republicans have not accepted a Democratic amendment since I was sworn in. What they're jamming through is their entire right wing agenda in case they lose all the recall elections, and lose the majority.  It's just sheer partisanship. There's no interest in compromise.

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Tim:  It's not the Wisconsin I was used to but uhm, I'm learning it's a different Wisconsin.

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Tim:    I had a Republican call me last night. He said those people in the Capitol today, he said they're not conservative, They're radical.

John:    That's why being a candidate is an attractive notion.

TITLE: John Nichols Political Journalists

John:    Because you could beat the guy. Tim Cullen did not let people down. He stayed in Illinois. He held firm. Walker needs to go.

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John:    So we put Cullen in there. The guy who can clearly win. I'm not saying you should, I'm just, that would be the drama move, right?  Cullen steps up, that would be the drama move.

Announcer:    Today on Up Front, the Democratic state senator who says he'll run against Governor Walker in the fall election.

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Tim:    I sense a yearning out there to stop this war uhm and, and bring this government back near the center.

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Tim:    You can go to a dictatorship. They can get things done in ten or fifteen minutes. I can come to Wisconsin and get things done in ten or fifteen minutes. It's not a good  situation.

Tim:    I'm sure most of the people at 5.0 think the government's collective bargain bill is a great idea. Therefore they probably don't like my opposition to it. My reaction is, let's focus on what really matters. The economy Rock County. I'll help them any way they want. They know I'm here. They have my number, and I don't here from them.

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TITLE: Rock 5.0 finally calls Tim for support of a tax incentive that would help recruit Shine Medical Techonologies.

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Mary:    This Rock County 5.0 team is working hard. And, this is just part of their day job, just part of it. We're putting up a tremendous amount of time and effort behind the scenes to bring Shine in. So um, we've got some challenges ahead of us, and we'll need some help.

Tim:    I'm not opposed to the use of tax credits. Sure, I, I'm, I voted for lots of tax credits bills already. What I can't understand from looking at that bill is how the public is served by that bill.  There's nothing in the bill that says that before they sell them, There's nothing in the bill that says they have to have done that before they sell them.

James:    Uh this particular bill creates a mechanism that will be governed by a lot of different checks and balances, which I've tried to articulate on this little diagram here.

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Tim:    What you say and what this chart shows is not what the bill says.

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Tim:    We're messing around with the public's money, uh the public has a right to know what they're getting.

Joe:    I think the tax credits, Tim.  They have to follow those circumstances. This bill does not change those other than the fact that they could postpone the job requirement, so.

Tim:    The bill doesn't say that, Joe.

Joe:    The, then we can change the bill to say that, Tim.

[01:13:59.12]

Tim:    Well, it should be changed.

Joe:    No problem. It doesn't create tax credits, it's got nothing to do with, it just allows them to be transferred.

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Tim:    I understand that, Joe. Very well.

Joe:    Okay.

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TITLE: February, 2012

TITLE:  The Janesville City Council is voting on the $9 million incentive package for Shine Medical Technologies.

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Mary:  This is Connor.

Greg:  Hey Connor.

Greg:    No it sounds good, sounds good, well it should be an interesting night.

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Mary:    We've been working night and day with the city on the  the Shine Deal.  So today is pretty much D-Day to get this deal done.

Russ:    Uh we are gonna start out with the uh requesting comments from the public regarding items on the agenda, not requiring a public hearing.

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Male:    You turn this project down, you send a very clear message to businesses interested in locating in our community. Janesville is open for business, had the vision and the strength to allow this project to move forward.

Male:    It has become very apparent this is an opportunity for us to become a research center and I'm very grateful the Shine company has selected us.

[01:15:33.12]

Male:    I feel like uh, uh a brown, a pair of brown shoes in a, in a room of tuxedos.  I'm just a working guy. But I, I hope I can, can uh can make you stop and think.  I did the math, 9 million dollars, hundred and 25 jobs, probably from out of town, 70 some thousand dollars per job.  No guarantees.

[01:15:58.06]

Eric:    The risk involved in this is this is a venture capital deal. They don't even have at this point a product that they can go to market and sell right now.

TITLE: Eric Levitt Janesville City Manager

Male:    I am aware that the city engaged a consultant to perform an analysis of the viability of the Shine company venture.

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Male:    This document has not been made available to the public. There has been a lack of transparency in this entire process. I urge the council to have a public hearing on this matter and table any vote tonight.

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Yuri:    If the council chooses tonight to delay this decision for 2 weeks, uh you will feel that your board will feel that it's warranted to start aggressively looking at other locations.

Greg:    We will re-engage other sites, uhm we have spent aconsiderable amount of money and time in Janesville already uhm.

Yuri:    Over 20 percent uh of our city budget is going into this project. And, and now we gotta make this decision right now with.

[01:17:00.22]

Yuri:    Barely any input from public uhm. The project is not going to start until 20 14, 20 15, 20 16, uhm the city is not gonna get uh paid the incentives back that are gonna come back from property taxes until.

Female:    Council member Rashkin.

Yuri:    20 26.

Female:    Could I move to question, please?

Yuri:    No.  

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Yuri:    Uhm, I hope that we're gonna create one heck of a reputation for our commitment to economic development because we're not gonna have finances because all of the incentives from this TIF is gonna go to this one project.

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Female:    I apologize for the interruption, but I move the question.

Russ:    With that, council please vote.

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Russ:    And that passes with Rashkin uh in opposition and McDonald uhm passing on the vote. So, that takes care of that.

Vic:    You did good. You did good.

(Mary laughs)

Mary:   I think with every dream, and every vision you are taking a risk. We;re venturing into terrotories we haven't been in before. And I feel good about that.

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20 15 right?

Mary:    Yeah.

Greg:    Congratulations.

Male:    Thank you so much.

Greg:    And thank you very much. We're thrilled to be here.

Mary:    I think about what this used to be like. I remember all the cars, and the people. But, that's the past. I go to some of our new developments, and I sit and I breathe air around them, and I think, this is our vision for the future.

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Mary:    My daughter said to me the other day, I can't imagine living anywhere but here in Janesville. This is where I feel very comfortable. This is where family is.

[01:18:50.13]

TITLE:  Fort Wayne, Indiana

[01:18:59.23]

TITLE: There is no provision for early retirement in the new GM-UAW contract.

Gayle:    This is what our reality is.

[01:19:21.21]

Angie:       I don't want anyone to see me and to think that I'm doing okay.  It may look like that on the outside, but on the inside, no, it's not fine.

[01:19:29.21]

Angie:  DJ, he was kind of like, sleeping 'til 3, 4, 5 in the evening.  My mother's like you need to have somebody behind him pushing, and I tell, I'm not there. I said, I'm not there, I can't do that.

[01:19:57.01]

Angie:  I'm still hurting, I still don't like it, but I have to go on.  So I don't think it'll ever be okay.

Gayle:    It's just getting through the day to day. You know living for the weekends.  That's it, this is my life. Okay. I gotta go, okay cause the line is starting. Tell Dad that I'll talk to him later, okay? I really can't talk, Sky.

[01:20:23.15]

Voicemail:    Yes, I'm calling for Cynthia Deegan. We'd like to talk to you about setting up a time for an interview.

Cindy:    [On phone] Hi Janet, this is Cynthia Deegan, I'm returning your phone call.

[01:20:42.04]

TITLE:    To get this lab tech job, Cindy must pass a board certification test.

Cindy:  So far 3 people have taken it, 2 have passed and 1 has failed, so. All my life I've worked hard, you know. It's how I made it through basic training.

[01:20:57.16]

Cindy:    I wasn't coming home a failure. Oh I'm going almost 70. Better slow down.

[01:21:13.15]

Cindy:    It said I passed but, I don't believe it. I'm still in shock, I mean I am just shaking.  That was the worst test I've ever taken in my entire life from the first question, I had no clue. It was like every one of these questions, you know it was like, oh my God, oh my God.

[01:21:36.10]

Cindy:    Uh. I hurt. Oh. that was terrible. Oh.

[01:21:52.18]

Female:    All righty, now this is your employment offer. We ask you to read it. If you agree, sign and date it and I'll make you a copy of that.  Are you interested in health and dental?

Cindy:    Yes.

Female:    Okay, this is for the health insurance. Ready? Here's your badge.

[01:22:36.14]

Tim:    I'm announcing today that I will no longer seek the democratic nomination for Governor in the expected recall election of Governor Walker.  I have concluded that I cannot raise the 1 to 2 million dollars necessary to deliver my message. I will spend the rest of my time in Madison. Representing those who have no lobbyist themselves.

[01:22:56.10]

Tim:    The convenient store employee, the hairdresser, the factory worker with no union.  I will continue to speak out on issues I believe in. I hope that not being a candidate will add credibility to what I say.

Woman:     Thank you so much.

[01:23:20.01]

TITLE: Shine Medical Technologies must raise another $10 million to build and open a plant here by 2015.

[01:23:35.16]

TITLE: Cindy's job pays 20% less, but her benefits covered medical tests confirming she is cancer-free.

[01:23:41.18]

TITLE: Gayle and Angie hope to retire and rejoin their families by 2016.

TITLE: As of July 2012, Wisonsin ranked 41st out of 50 states in job creation.

[01:24:04.14]

TITLE: Scott Walker's victory in the recall election cost $45.6 million.

TITLE: Combined with his opponent's spending of $20.8 million, it was the most expensive election in Wisconsin history.

TITLE: Diane Hendricks' $510,000 donation set a new state record.

TITLE: Janesville's GM plant is one of 39 shut down in the US since 2008 with no plans to reopen.

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[End credits]

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