they are free from the bureaucracy of the district on the one hand, and from the work rules of the labor unions on the other hand. so we have the freom to ganize our school around a radical princle, which teaching and lening. so the schoo is not gad around teedsfadults per utaround the nee of achi and learning. >> isn't this amazing that this is so radical? >> it s. >> but we he bee sort of handicappe by some of tse issues, lor uons and ganizingched on what the adults see as most important. >> it really is true. and when you see the schools co-lated, so i aamco located in all seven schools, it almosteels unfair t the distct sools becse it's hard for them touced when they have life-time tenure, when they hav to l off people based soly on seniority not merit. the principal is not allowed to take into account mer. that's a weird way to run a set of schools. >> it's a very weird way at the principal cannot really put the best athletes on the field, ifou will. lesley, charter schools are not the onlyossible solution to th challenges our publi education system faces, righ for example, they haveimited

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they are free from the bureaucracy of the district on the one hand, and from the work rules of the labor unionsother hand. so we have the freedom to organize our school around a radical principle, which is teaching and learning. so the school is not organized around the needs of adults, per se, but around the needs of teaching and learning. >> isn't this amazing that this is so radical? >> it is. >> but we have been sort of handicapped by some of these issues, labor unions and organizing schools based on what the adults see as most important. >> it really is true. and when you see the schools co-located, so i aamco located in all of my seven schools, it almost feels unfair to the district schools because it's hard for them to succeed when they have life-time tenure, when they have to lay off people based solely on seniority, not merit. the principal is not allowed to take into account merit. that's a weird way to run a set of schools. >> it's a very weird way that the principal cannot really put the best athletes on the field, if you will. lesley, charter schools are not the only possible solut

we have had many conversations in crafting this ordinance with the labor unions, and there is still a lot of uncertainty how we will move forward. i am committed. i hope that you are also committed to make the best of this so that we can move forward to a real requirement for residents to get a shot at the drugs that will be created here -- at the jobs that will be created here. i want to thank the iintern -- my inerntern, and those that lid and slept local hiring the last few months. thank you so much. ccolleagues, i expect this to be under the three-year rule, -- under the 30 day rule. midway through november, we can hear a lot of concerns that will be raised about legislation and how we might be able to build greater policy changes to find that sweet spot to get the support across the room and in room 200 as well. so -- they are separate matters. i don't have any legislation relating to this, but it is important to a knowledge a warm welcome. -- acknowledge a warm welcome. we would not be here. they are fighting the phillies, so thank you so much, brooke. you are always welcome in

we have had many conversations in crafting this ordinance with the labor unions, and there is still a lot of uncertainty how we will move forward. i am committed. i hope that you are also committed to make the best of this so that we can move forward to a real requirement for residents to get a shot at

union. that is why the big turn out by big labor is the biggest threat to jobs in this country. hi i'm cheryl casone, well -- welcome to cashin'in. pick up a copy of his new book bought and paid for on store shelf right now. also joining us -- welcome to all of you. wayne, this big labor bill worries you from congressman sherman, why? >> two reasons. number one sherman is a captive shill, if you will of the labor unions that's where he gets all of his campaign contributions so these going to do what they say. he's a puppet. the facts are that the right to work states, those states that have right to work laws, had added 1.5 million jobs from 1999 to 2009. those states that did not have right to work laws, lost 1.8 million jobs in that same period of time. i that i says it right there. >> jonathan when you've got unemployment in the situation we have in this country the picture not getting better. do we need some kind of bill like this? why not leave the system alone for a while until we can get jobs going once again. >> what congressman sherman wants to do, wayne is right, give

. >> putting jerry brown in charge of negotiating with the labor unions around pensions, around how many people we have the state government is like putting count dracula in charge of the blood bank. >> brown countered the charge that whitman has caved in on pensions on police and firefighters and she has carved out an exception for them. >> they have to get the best and brightest so it's a the right thing for them to do to offer a defined benefit program. >> and prison reform, brown says it would be smarter to have a range of sanctions to allow prisoners to serve time in local jails and he would fight court ordered spending on prisons. >> i want to save the state billions of dollars by blocking the attempt to build 10,000 new hospital beds. >> whitman points out it's cheaper to move prisoners out of state. >> we have posted our interviews with meg when it man and jerry brown in their entirety. you can see and hear it all by clicking on the politics page. >>> coming up, a look at state and local propositions, should california take a step beyond medical marijuana? an in-depth look at pro

ayotte, is it ok that this is happening in terms of the labor union, the weakening of organized labor? why do you think it has happened, number one, and it is it actually something that is good for the economy or not? >> well, in terms of the employee free choice act which congressman hodes not only supports but is a sponsor of, let's be clear, it removes what i think it's a fundamental right of democracy, which is for people to go and confidentially decide to cast their vote, whether it is to be a member of a union or whether we go into the ballot box and decide who we are going to support. that bill takes away that right from workers and it is absolutely wrong. that bill is wrong in the approach as well because it essentially imposes mandatory arbitration between the employer and the employee, a third-party deciding with the contract is going to be. let us call it for what it is. we know congressman hodes is very supported by big labor in his campaign and that is why he has to be a co-sponsor of the employee free choice act. but it is a misnomer. it is not about free choice, it is a

>> the labor union community has been amazing this year. they have released an up and gone resources to educate their members, to make sure their members turnout, which is a huge piece of the work any to do with democrats. and also counteract some of the spending. we do not have the same kind of resources as some very large corporations. we just do not. particularly, in this economic environment. so organizations like emily's list, who depend on the $100 check and we get support from individuals around the country, but those individuals are dealing with recession and what wall street is doing and they wonder how their stocks are doing. it is a different situation. that is the difference between the two parties. who will those parties represent wants to get there? >> i want to ask a broader question about the impact of this and it -- of this election. you have eight candidates in the house that are threatening to flip, who are in lean or toss of distress. let's assume they lose. >> do we have to assume that? [laughter] >> what is the impact o

and she came out of the box hitting him on being bought and paid for by the labor unions. d that's where the theme is in the governor's race right now. and of course the governor's race sort of took the stage this week for a lot of different reasons. the debate was just the beginning of what's been just a very -- >> belva: let's look at the debate for just a little while. then we'll get to the other stuff. >> yeah, yeah. >> belva: so what else happened at the debate? >> well, i think the debate was a chance to see these two go toe to toe. i think brown maybe had the most risk because he's the guy who tends to do freestyle and say things that sometimes are to his detriment. whitman is much more controlled and scripted. and she was at this debate. i think she came off more tightly scripted. brown won the crowd over with some self-depreciating humor, talking about his age. and together they really xwlo explored i think a lot of the issues in california politics, from the budget to immigration. and this is just what voters need. and this is the first of three debates. the next

the reins. >> brown says he would renegotiate with the unions and increase the retirement age. whitman says she won't buck the unions. >> putting brown to negotiate with the labors around pensions, around how many people we have in this state, government, is like putting racula in charge of the blood bank. >> brown countered that. >> you have to get the best and brightest and they are recruiting the right thing to do. >> and prison reform it would be smarter to have a range of sanctions, brown says. he says he would fight court ordered spending on prisons. >> i've already saved the state billions of dollars by blocking the attempt to build 10,000 new hospital beds at a cost of $8 billion. >> whitman points out it's cheaper to move prisoners out of state. >> we need to send prisoners to make states. >> reporter: we have posted their interviews at www.abc7.com. >>> federal judge in riverside denied a government request to delay an order lifting the ban on gays in the military. obama administration is expected to appeal that ruling but in anticipation of today's decision the pentagon already begin telling recruiters they must accept applicants who are gay. >> thre

r us unions powerless in other parts of the world labor unions will put up a fight for the sake of the working class but here in the u.s. the capitalism mentality has taken over the country leaving many union leaders and effective parties kalen for shows as how american workers have been left to fend for themselves. through many causes draw americans out in the streets we're here to take our country back i understand they don't want to hear that our god given inalienable. natural liberty except for their rights as workers. in greece organized labor drove twenty thousand to the streets to push back against government austerity measures. in france militant unions protests cuts in pensions and increased retirement age across the world the trade unions are a force to be reckoned with at the polls and in the streets in the u.s. however they're increasingly silent. this is the headquarters of the american federation of labor and the congress of industrial organizations the largest union in the united states it's located less than half a block from the white house very close to the center of

and to serve as a permanent counterweight to the activities of the labor unions and these liberal groups. >> schieffer: let's talk about the tea party a little bit. rush limbaugh said you feel threatened by the tea party because you and the other establishment folks didn't have anything to do with it. >> no, i welcome it. think it's one of the most positive and whole wholesome developments. he took out of context where i said that the tea party is not sophisticated. my definition is i was using the one about pretentiously or superficially. these are not people who are skilled in the ways of washington. they don't want to be. they're ordinary americans who have created a massive grassroots effort driven by a sentiment in this country, even more important than the groups is the sentiment that's driving it. that the government is on a terribly dangerous course of spending too much money, running up too much deficit and taking up too much of our... too much control of our lives with things like "obama care." i consider it to be wholesome, patriotic, and incredibly positive for the country. i

now pot growers are talking about forming one of the most influential types of groups around, a labor union. we report on the unusual idea that could really make pot pay off. >> reporter: with thousands of workers an estimated sales in the hundreds of millions, california's medical marijuana industry has never been bigger. with a ballot measure to legalize use for adults, some of the state labor unions are growing their membership going to pot. chad manages the patient id center and head shop in oakland where they joined the united food and commercial workers union. >> it gives us representation, what employees and the standard industry needed. >> reporter: just like employees in other industries, these workers say they want to be able to negotiate collective bargaining agreements and they welcome the legitimacy that comes with union representation. 175 people joined the ufcw, dozens have teamed up with the teamsters. company lawyer clinton tillion couldn't be more pleased. >> workers get the benefits and we get a stable workforce. >> it's roger morgan points ou marijuana is still illegal u

in europe it's the labor unions and the communists pushing the protest. speaking of which, that choice is being presented to us as well. at the foot of the lincoln memorial again at washington, d.c. well were presented with a similar choice. we'll compare and contrast 8-28 and what happened this weekend with 10-2-10. but we'll only use the facts and pictures. next. ♪ ♪ >> hello, america. i want to tell you that we have some pretty shocking video for you at the bottom of the hour that was placed on theblaze.com earlier this morning. it is horrifying. absolutely horrifying. we'll show it to you but i warn you this is a show you want to tivo if you have kids in the room and you want to see it first. start with what happened over the weekend. i want to ask a question. a question that i asked you last week. who are we? who are we? critical that you know the answer to this question yourself. you really are the leader. looking for another great leader. that is you. it's critical that you know these answers yourself. more critical that you get others to start thi

>> first of all, it was over 400 groups i think with the labor unions and civil rights groups and environmental groups the idea was never to match beck. this was planned well before beck. the idea was to bring together and they did, we all did the most diverse rally of american people that we have seen in recent history. and you saw on that mall today what america really looks like. that was the goal and that was more than achieved. i would dispute the numbers but i don't even want to get into the numbers game. i think the diversity and really showing the breadth and width of how america diversity can come together under a common banner was well demonstrated on the mall. >> geraldo: reverend al, when i first heard of the parade today, i was looking forward to the jon stewart, stephen colbertally at the end of october. when i heard of this one i said it will be labor unions and people will expect that it will be some of the organized vocal groups. seems to me that many of those groups and why even advertise that the communists were going to be there. it just sounds so harsh and it is not the kin

across europe take to the streets u.s. labor unions have decided to take a little bit of a different route to the white house so this cozy relationship between labor and the party in power changed the game whatever happened to standing up for two powerful interests and fighting for the people and would win doing membership especially in the private sector what is the role for unions in the u.s. and thank god it's friday because that means that comedian season smith is going to give us his two cents on everything that's making headlines sarah palin's got her own reality show and we'll tell you about an epic typo but as one can get mad as hell that's all the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story. the story of thirty three miners trapped more than two thousand feet below ground for sixty eight days and the tremendous worldwide effort to rescue them caught everyone watching it's the feel good story of the year it showed the human capacity for survival and for charity but according to the wall street journal's daniel hendra

the word is today the major prorosts by the french labor unions is losing steam the senate voted to roooooooooooooooooooo another come and vote tomorrow is expected to seal the deal. those coverage collectors are going back to work in some oil workers are leaving their picket lines. the world wildlife fund said it keeps finding new species in the amazon. examples include those big otters that you their cud of tarantulas, birds one of thehehehehehehehehehehe intes this pink dolphins. therreally e just a few of the than 1200 species recently discovered in the amazon. loo l l l l l l l l l l park where the giants have taken to theee them stretching getting ready to warm up for this evening's practice. at the rangegegegegege lier this evening the world series game one just undndnd from great help. much more news, sports and weather and traffic ahead. [ female announcer ] why watch regular tv when you can experience the next generation of television service? at&t u-verse tv. tv like you've never seen before at a really great price. hurry and take advantage of our amazing deal. order today and get u-verse tv f

the union and increase retirement able. witness man says brown won't butt the union that supported him. >> putting jerry brown in charge of negotiating with the labord how many people we have in the state government is like putting count dracula in charge of the blood bank. >>reporter: brown countered that charge by saying whitman has already caved in on reforming pension for police and firefighters. and she has carved out an exception for them. >> they have to get the very best and brightest rae cawting needs are such that they, it is actually the rate thing to do to be able to offer defined benefit program for those that put their life on the line every single day. >>reporter: she says smarter to have a range of sanction that allow some prison investigators serve time in local gist and he says would he fight court ordered spending on prisons. >> i have already saved the state billions of dollars by blocking the attempt to build 10,000 new hospital beds and cost of 8 billion. >>reporter: she point out cheap tore move prisoners out of state. >> my solution to that is we necessitated to send prisoners to neighboring state who have capacity in the sy

me i'm not trying to get the question can you please the question is do you not think that the french labor unions are right in what they say is they deserve to retire at the age of sixty they pay taxes they've been expecting to retire at the age of sixty why should they have to work for two more years well no i don't think that the are right i think no one is right in this in this situation i mean well everyone knows that the french love to protest in the street and i think it's also part of our democracy but it's not enough to explain the situation and the strength of the station. but about the right i mean we can discuss about the position of the government and the union there is obviously a wide gap between the two. is that your question. ok we seem to still have time on the line tomorrow i just want to clarify what is your stance on these proposals to raise the retirement age do you think it needs to be done or not . yes of course it needs to be done every why telling the lie from the front because the budget situation needs it and just the democracy figures are here to show that the system w

is amazing to me because the labor unions and jerry brown have been joined at the hip for 40 years. putting jerry brown in charge of negotiating for the labor unions around pensions and how many people we have in the state government is like putting count dracula in charge of the blood bank. the fact is that nothing will get done. we have got to make very serious changes here. just over the past five years, the number of employees has ballooned by 33,000 people. no family has been expanded like that. we need to use technology to do more with less. estimates are that there is $5 billion worth of fraud imbedded in the medicare system. because we have not had the strength of character to go after that, i want to have a grand jury so that if people are ripping off the state of california, they will go to jail. it is not acceptable. we let fraud in the system and then we think about cutting power. >> when i ran for attorney general in the primaries, the california teachers association, the firefighters, and the building trade all supported my opponent's. i know how to stand up agai

do you have to raise money from the labor unions, from some special interests. >> yes. >> doesn't sheer of the argument? >> no in fact, if you watch my commercial, what she is saying about not behold ton anyone, arnold schwarzenegger said anything, that doesn't tell wluk do the job or no. >> one of your aides was recorded using an unflattering word for ms. whitman and you apologized but do you really feel all that bad about it? >> look, i have talked about this so much it is really borg, so i'm not going to talk about it anymore. >> your friends and allies say they worry a little bit about you being off the cuff and unscripted. do you feel like you are to be monitoring your words any more closely? >> i'm on message discipline. tell me don't say anything too controversial. search that hard for? >> yeah i like to say what i think and i do think the fact that i'm not scripted and she is and her script is already set it is not original. >> this issue of the housekeeper, she unknowingly hired an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper is this an important issue in the race or is it a sideshow?

running away from the president, meaning incumbents or fund-raisers don't want to do things or the labor unionson't want to back somebody, you need someone to be the enforcer. ger again had that role in our white house, and at the end of the day, rahm will be terribly missed. >> how much of a difference does it make who is sitting in, you can say that seat, who has the president's ear, who speaks to the president? is it noticeable when a presidency changes a chief of staff in the middle of the administration? >> it can be extremely important who's in that job. as ed will remember, many often thought there were three presidencies during president rag and's eight years in office. the first was the jim bakker steve of staff period when things went well, got may have legislative accomplishments. the second came under done regan as chi of staff, former ceo. things went way off the track, they had the iran-contra scan and regan got fired. the third when they brought back baker back in that. >> what do you think the noticeable difference will be? >> i think there's going to be a huge change in style o

the young communist league, the international socialist organization, all the labor unions, nationaln network, no justice, no peace, peace and freedom party that is running, i believe, convicted killer. jeremiah wright's church. really? is this it? communists, socialist and radicals. that's not name calling. that is a fact. it's all right here on their own website. and they are all proudly standing with the president and the president is proudly standing with them. i can't stand with these people. can you? i give them their right for freedom of speech and i wish them no harm. but i can't stand with them because the principles and values represent destruction of america. the intentional destruction of america. communism, socialism not compatible with the constitution of the united states. they have called, some of the groups, for violent revolution. they want globalization. the redistribution of wealth. they want a government that is totally immersed in your life. now that is, that is a fact. that is not opinion. that is a fact. that's not what i believe in. i don't think it's what yo

you can organize around the labor unions in las vegas and get it done. wings that is going to be a large part of the story. you also hear a candidate say don't look at the polls i've got the ground game going. it doesn't mean a huge swing from where you see the race in any snapshot. >> greta: are any of these close races, anything that could change the numbers demonstrably we are now 10 days out. >> it is hard to imagine other than the big revelation the classic october surprise. these races are -- >> greta: like an arrest, an indictment would do it. >> these are tossup races. probably in a state like washington, maybe like california we are going late without knowing who the winner is going to be because it is so close. it is going to be a matter of who shows up. >> greta: maybe recounts. look at minnesota last time with al franken. that almost went the entire senate term before they worked that out. >> they know is important. >> it is. rick, thank you. >> next governor huckabee is on a mission the kind npr won't like. >> well-known president obama suppo

>> a lot of the labor unions are concerned that if you're going to cut back on days you deliver the mail. the next day they would cut would be tuesday because that's the next slowest day of mail, so you get it maybe monday, wednesday, thursday friday. but i think right now, they're definitely at least focused on getting saturdays. if they were to do that, you wouldn't get mail delivered to your mailbox, but the post office would still be open in the neighborhood so you can go in and stop by and drop off a package orp pick one up or do whatever else you need to do. >> the mail doesn't go out on saturdays and tuesdays so that why my bills are late. >>> the psych logical battlefield at school and online. how to help your kids rise above bullies. >>> and what may have happened to the balloon racers before they disappeared off the coast of italy. boss: our breakout session is gonna be great. got the gecko t-shirt... "4 million drivers switched!" gecko water bottle... notebook... chamois... gecko: sir, i feel a little bit uncomfortable with all... you know... with all this. i mean, it's not ab

wall street and the labor unions make up three-quarters of the room. but health and energy are also there and there's still room in the corner for defense and transportation. let's bring in our panel to mix it up, democratic strategist crist kofinis, republican strategist, brent littlefield. i will start with you, chris. had had this conversation too many times with too many folks in washington, d.c., sitting politicians, adviser, et cetera, everybody acknowledges the problem but no one seems too know what to do about it. why is that? >> well, because the answers that will actually solve this problem no one wants to really kind of pursue, which is publicly funding elections. i mean, here is the brutal reality. >> what if you were just transparent about it? instead of going straight to public elections, we just stopped letting them give money in secret? >> i think we can do that, definitely would help but it wouldn't, i think, you know, mitigate what is the bigger problem here, which is you have members of congress or senators date they get elected they

the labor unions and civil rights groups began meeting. i went to the first meeting in the spring of this year and i think that as the -- it progressed the circle got even larger. the first meeting we had everyone from harry belafonte and transgression of lebanon '99 to ben gellis and myself for the national action network and as this was driven made a particular thing that it had to be broad. it was not going to be a thing of just representing one interest group or one race or one group. it wanted to really say one nation and in a diversity that you'll see tomorrow and the inclusion i think is something unlike we've seen in recent history in a divisive kind of politics. >> do you think there will be popular results out of this for the progressive of america? i mean is this really a turning point, with all of the negativity that's been out there, all of of the critique that's been out there about the progressive movement and the obstruction that has taken place. we've seen 40 people in the united states senate say no and stop a lot of legis

as mayor chuck reed's hand-picked candidate to run in district 9 and help chuck reed take on the labor unions but today mayor reed did not have time or was not available for comment today to either stand up and defend him or look into the situation. >> may be the bankruptcy attorney would be shed light on the confusion. >> reporter: would you think that would be the case. also there is the possibility if this is through an attorney or he did it on his own that there would be fraud or perjury charges but that happened in 1996 so the statute of limitations may have run out on this case. >> 14 years. len ramirez, thank you. >>> it sounded oddly familiar. the oakland police department called a sudden news conference today regarding an anonymous tip and the city's crime lab. so what's the story? syme reports. >> reporter: the press conference was announce -- simon perez reports. >> reporter: the press conference was announce and and they drew a crowd. the press conference designed to address allegations of misconduct in the oakland police department crime lab. oakland police chief anthony batts re

the democrats took a strong edge with the 527s and those groups that were basically backed by the labor unionsbut now post citizens united you see the republicans have gotten back in the game in a big way in a really out-spending the democrats in these key congressional senate races not just in the amount of money they're spending but in the scope and coverage of races that they're sitting. >> woodruff: post citizens united. you're referring to the supreme court decision that said it was all right for a corporate interest and private interest. >> right. that's the one that sort of the latest rule change which... it changed how the money gets in and the timing of when these campaigns and these groups can spend it. >> woodruff: now, what are these groups spending their money on? you track advertising. is all of this money going into television? >> the majority of the republican money right now is going into television. it's not just regular tv ads. it's negative ads. about 90% of all these ads right now have been negative ads so they're adding an awful lot of help both on the message side for ca