joining me now, tammy baldwin.enator, thank you so much for your time. >> glad to be with you. >> so just in your state alone, in wisconsin, the ratio that we're looking at is stunning and it's even worse than the national numbers. women in wisconsin make $36,350 compared to men, who make $46,898. that means for men, the representative earnings ratio of 78%, meaning women made 78% of what men were making and wisconsin's equal pay act was repealed by governor walker in 2012. why do you believe this conversation cannot move forward? >> well, i certainly hope this conversation does move forward and that we at the senate pass the paycheck fairness act. i think it's critical, because it's not only about the women involved who fall behind at 78 cents per every dollar that a man makes, but it's their families, and over a lifetime, over a career, if women face pay inequities, it can mean the loss of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars that affect their ability to care for their children, to save for their k

they came in big against senator tammy baldwin. in to a tiny community like the iron county board race and sending flyers to the neighbors of folks who run in what have almost been uncontested races, slamming and smearing local folks who want to serve on the county board. and the reason that they're doing it is because there is a great big open pit mine. the county board is going to make a decision about that mine. and the koch brothers want to see deregulation. they want to see dirty industry, which not in this mine, but in green bay, wisconsin, they're in big all over the country. so they're promoting that interest there. and in kenosha, which you mentioned, they're coming into this local school board race because along with a coalition of other right wing groups, they've been arguing it was illegal for the school board to recognize the teachers union and give them a contract. and they want to suppress wages. this is why billionaires from out of state care about who is on the local school board. they have an agenda that deals wit