 I'm from Fairfield, Vermont, and I work for the Howard Center here in Burlington and Chittenden County and I'm a member of AFSCME as my union and I am here because of Scott Walker coming to town and and Phil Scott meeting with him he says it's out of respect for Phil Scott that the Republicans invited he didn't and I say well how about respecting Vermont workers rather than an out-of-state demagogue I don't know if he's quite the demagogue but he's certainly a union busting politician who seems to be making the rounds and I'm I say no thank you go back where you came from so my name is Troy Dassler I'm a former teacher I was a teacher in Madison, Wisconsin when Walker brought his horrible ideas to our state and I just feel just so upset that the that spreading even to this beautiful state of Vermont and I saw what he did there and it was pretty horrible and I hope that every person in Vermont realizes what he did and comes out and says this is not good for our country this is not good for our schools and it's not good for our nation so I'm really glad to see and so when I heard there was a protest here in Vermont I'm like well that's my nature I'm used to having to protest this man because the man is full of full of really really a lot of ideas most of them are bad so I'm really happy to be here in solidarity with my brothers and sisters here in Vermont thank you a lot of things and at the end of it says great mistakes the great mistake is that he came to Vermont today practices among other union members to organize also doing a lot of other great mistakes in his time not being able to let same marriages he's called that a great mistake sorry a lot of great mistakes that Scott Walker has made is calling things great mistakes sorry about that same sex marriages he called that a great mistake allowing abortions for women and having the right to make your own decisions of their own body whether it had been rape incest after 20 weeks he put it into state law that they could not make this choice after 20 weeks they asked that immigrants are not allowed to have amnesty in certain states or cities or townships which is another great mistake the one thing I have to say about Scott Walker and I hope you don't take the wrong way that hopefully he's going to be walkering his ass out of this city today invite my friend up here and spearhead guy whose brainchild was whole entire organization and David Banducen like this guy being here he isn't invited by us he's invited by the alternate fact coalition thank you from rights and democracy my name is James Haslum I live in Essex and I'm out here to stand in solidarity with people in Vermont and all across the country that are standing up against this right-wing agenda that is trying anti-worker and is really being funded by a handful of radical billionaires to hijack our country they're not going to take it but they're just not going to take it so I'm an American patriot I'm trying to fix it in our land right now if we don't fix it in our land it's going to be fixed somewhere else. Davis who wanted to get involved and I heard that Scott Walker was coming and I was incensed and so I decided to join all the unions that came here in solidarity with workers and oppressed people everywhere