Wisconsin

Walker: Anti-Union Bill To Go Through 'One Way Or The Other' (VIDEO)

Eric Kleefeld | May 27, 2011, 5:16PM

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) appeared Friday on Fox News, and explained to Neil Cavuto that a judge's ruling Thursday that struck down his controversial anti-public employee union law, based on a procedure involved in passing it, would not be a major issue -- that the state is appealing the decision, and in any case they could simply re-pass the same law without the procedural defect.

"Governor, what do you do now?" asked Cavuto.

"Well, for us, the clear thing that was -- we found out of that ruling is not that the law was not valid, but that the process was used, at least according to the circuit court, was not correct," said Walker.

"So, either next week when the Supreme Court starts to hear this case, either by the time they're done in June, or ultimately by the end of June, when we have to have the legislature passing a state budget -- one way or the other, either through the Supreme Court or the legislature, these reforms will be put into place, and we'll ultimately be able to protect middle-class jobs and middle-class taxpayers here in the state of Wisconsin."

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Star Parker

California GOPer On Wisconsin Senate Dems: 'Fire Them!' (VIDEO)

Andrew Jones | February 23, 2011, 5:21PM

On Fox News this afternoon, a former GOP House candidate from California called for the still-absent Wisconsin Senate Democrats to lose their jobs.

Star Parker, who was handily beaten last November by Rep. Laura Richardson for California's 37th Congressional district, appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto -- but she didn't talk about her home state. Rather, she focused specifically on what punishment she believes the AWOL Dems deserve.

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AK-SEN

Joe Miller: Nobody's Proven It'll Hurt Alaska If Senate Race Continues (VIDEO)

Eric Kleefeld | December 6, 2010, 5:46PM

Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller (R)

Alaska Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller appeared today on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, and brushed off concern that his legal maneuvering to try to stop the apparent victory of incumbent GOP Senator and write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski would damage the state, by depriving it of a second Senator. Furthermore, he seemed to say that Alaska having a full complement of senators would only further the "fiscal destruction of the nation" if the other senator is Murkowski.

Cavuto asked about comments today from Alaska's Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, who called upon Miller to concede and not hold up the certification of Murkowski's win: "I'm sorry, but are you concerned, as Sen. Begich pointed out, that whatever your reasons -- and they might be perfectly justified -- Alaska stands a pretty good likelihood now of having just one senator for a while, when some of the biggest issues of our time are being debated."

"Yeah, and I guess the question becomes, is that one extra vote gonna be used to continue to grow government, continue the largesse, to continue earmarks -- to basically continue the fiscal destruction of the nation?" Miller responded. "And frankly, I don't think we need that.

"But you know, getting more to the point, I don't think anybody's actually proven there's gonna be adverse impact. Hopefully, this process can be resolved quickly, and before, you know, the January swearing-in date."

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AK-SEN

Fox News' Neil Cavuto To Joe Miller: Do You Feel Like Custer Right Now? (VIDEO)

Jillian Rayfield | November 17, 2010, 6:03PM

Now that the AP has called the Alaska Senate race for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Neil Cavuto wants to know this of Republican Joe Miller: "Do you feel a little like Custer right now?"

On Fox News this afternoon, Miller told Cavuto that "it's not a question as to how I feel, it's a question as to whether or not the voters of the state of Alaska deserve to have a consistent standard applied to the future, whether or not they deserve integrity in the vote. And those questions aren't answered yet."

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Scott Brown

Brown On His Health Care Flip-Flop: Mass. Plan Totally Different From Obama Plan

Eric Kleefeld | January 13, 2010, 5:04PM

Scott Brown, the Republican candidate in this Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts, appeared just now on Neil Cavuto's Fox News show, promoting his candidacy and opposing the Democrats' health care program -- and explaining why he supported health care reform in the Massachusetts state Senate.

Cavuto asked Brown why he'd supported an expansion of state involvement in health care, but he's opposing the same thing now. (As we noted, the Massachusetts health care plan passed by the state legislature and signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney is similar to the Democratic federal plan in many ways, including the individual mandate to purchase health insurance.)

"No, that's not true, they're two different programs. What we have here is a free-market enterprise where we're providing insurance in various levels to people in Massachusetts," said Brown. "The plans in Washington are a one-size-fits-all plan that's gonna cost almost a trillion-plus dollars, raise taxes, at a time when we don't need it. Why are we subsidizing, why would we pay more, for something we already have? It makes no sense."

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