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TONIGHT 6PM: Arnold's foes are grow louder
If there's doubt Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's special-election push is in big trouble, foes in the Bay Area plan to crush it today.
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Oakland Tribune
Article Last Updated: 4/05/2005 06:47 AM
Arnold's foes are growing louder
Protesters in S.F. hope to drown out governor's special-election pitch
By Steve Geissinger - SACRAMENTO BUREAU
Inside Bay Area
SACRAMENTO — If there's doubt Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's special-election push is in big trouble, foes in the Bay Area plan to crush it today.
Even a conservative GOP group joined the opposition as
traditional Democratic constituencies Monday prepared a massive protest outside a scheduled Schwarzenegger fund-raiser tonight at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco.
An array of labor unions, representing everyone from nurses to teachers, hope to field 10,000 protesters loud enough to drown out Schwarzenegger's pitch inside for a fall special election. His initiatives would, among other things, curtail state-worker pensions, change the way teachers are paid and establish new fiscal controls affecting schools.
Even traditional GOP supporters — firefighters and law enforcement officers — are joining a string of growing protests against the governor's proposals.
Members of about 150 unions from San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and other parts of the Bay Area are expected to participate in today's protest, said Tim Paulson, executive director of the California Labor Council.
"Schwarzenegger's a non-action hero who is attacking the real action heroes of California," Paulson said Monday at an organizing session in Oakland. "We're going to make sure he's not welcome in San Francisco."
Schwarzenegger and his supporters, which include big business and anti-tax groups, are portraying their foes as unwelcome special interests using "scare tactics" in an attempt to derail needed reforms in deficit-plagued California.
"Union leaders, who are forcing state and local government into bankruptcy so they can maintain their gold-plated pensions, have been lying to the people of California" about the negative affects of Schwarzenegger's proposals, said Joanne Monaco, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Save California.
Though the once highly popular governor is raising tens of millions of dollars to wage battle as a self-described champion of voters and foe of lawmakers and the status quo, his ratings are slipping in polls as his opponents build huge war chests themselves to depict him as pandering to big-industry contributors.
"You can join Arnold, if you've got the bucks," said Jamie Court of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.
The actor-turned-politician who unseated Democratic Gov. Gray Davis two years ago in what was described as a voter revolt, has tackled what analysts and strategists from both parties view as perhaps too many complex, Herculean tasks all at once.
They range from the budget deficit, to government reorganization, to the planned special election that bypasses the Legislature. The tactic also has fostered an avalanche of proposed initiatives from his foes.
He's in "dangerous" territory, said Barbara O'Connor of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media in Sacramento.
Schwarzenegger strategists downplay the perils.
But independent voters are shifting against the governor, and even conservative Republicans have announced opposition for their own reason — he's not being tough enough.
"California needs real budget reform that reins in out-of-control government spending," said Mike Spence, president of the conservative California Republican Assembly.
"Schwarzenegger ran for office on the premise that California needed to get its house in order, but the (budget limiting) 'Live Within Our Means Act' does absolutely nothing to fix the state's structural fiscal problems," Spence said.
Some of the stakeholders joining tonight's protest have disagreements with Schwarzenegger that began building before the governor decided to hold a special election.
The nurses union, for instance, first clashed with the governor in the fall, when Schwarzenegger issued an emergency regulation blocking the implementation of stricter nurse-to-patient ratios.
The union lobbied for more than
10 years to get the ratios into law, signed by Davis in 1999.
The California Nurses Association sued the state over the emergency regulation, and last month a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the union. Hospitals were required to comply with the ratios immediately, including one nurse for every five patients on busy surgical units.
The association launched a billboard campaign Monday at its headquarters in Oakland in anticipation of the massive protest against Schwarzenegger in San Francisco today.
"We are here to take care of our patients, and we feel this is not Arnold's agenda," said Rose Ann De Moro, executive director of the association, which represents 60,000 registered nurses statewide.
The initial campaign features a menacing-looking Schwarzenegger juxtaposed against Patricia Gonzalez, a nurse at Children's Hospital Oakland. Above the two portraits reads, "She heals. He wheels & deals."
In Santa Monica, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights staged a similar rollout of roving billboards that will travel to protests.
Staff writer Rebecca Vesely contributed to his report.
Contact Sacramento Bureau Chief Steve Geissinger at sgeissinger [at] angnewspapers.com.
Oakland Tribune
Article Last Updated: 4/05/2005 06:47 AM
Arnold's foes are growing louder
Protesters in S.F. hope to drown out governor's special-election pitch
By Steve Geissinger - SACRAMENTO BUREAU
Inside Bay Area
SACRAMENTO — If there's doubt Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's special-election push is in big trouble, foes in the Bay Area plan to crush it today.
Even a conservative GOP group joined the opposition as
traditional Democratic constituencies Monday prepared a massive protest outside a scheduled Schwarzenegger fund-raiser tonight at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco.
An array of labor unions, representing everyone from nurses to teachers, hope to field 10,000 protesters loud enough to drown out Schwarzenegger's pitch inside for a fall special election. His initiatives would, among other things, curtail state-worker pensions, change the way teachers are paid and establish new fiscal controls affecting schools.
Even traditional GOP supporters — firefighters and law enforcement officers — are joining a string of growing protests against the governor's proposals.
Members of about 150 unions from San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and other parts of the Bay Area are expected to participate in today's protest, said Tim Paulson, executive director of the California Labor Council.
"Schwarzenegger's a non-action hero who is attacking the real action heroes of California," Paulson said Monday at an organizing session in Oakland. "We're going to make sure he's not welcome in San Francisco."
Schwarzenegger and his supporters, which include big business and anti-tax groups, are portraying their foes as unwelcome special interests using "scare tactics" in an attempt to derail needed reforms in deficit-plagued California.
"Union leaders, who are forcing state and local government into bankruptcy so they can maintain their gold-plated pensions, have been lying to the people of California" about the negative affects of Schwarzenegger's proposals, said Joanne Monaco, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Save California.
Though the once highly popular governor is raising tens of millions of dollars to wage battle as a self-described champion of voters and foe of lawmakers and the status quo, his ratings are slipping in polls as his opponents build huge war chests themselves to depict him as pandering to big-industry contributors.
"You can join Arnold, if you've got the bucks," said Jamie Court of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.
The actor-turned-politician who unseated Democratic Gov. Gray Davis two years ago in what was described as a voter revolt, has tackled what analysts and strategists from both parties view as perhaps too many complex, Herculean tasks all at once.
They range from the budget deficit, to government reorganization, to the planned special election that bypasses the Legislature. The tactic also has fostered an avalanche of proposed initiatives from his foes.
He's in "dangerous" territory, said Barbara O'Connor of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media in Sacramento.
Schwarzenegger strategists downplay the perils.
But independent voters are shifting against the governor, and even conservative Republicans have announced opposition for their own reason — he's not being tough enough.
"California needs real budget reform that reins in out-of-control government spending," said Mike Spence, president of the conservative California Republican Assembly.
"Schwarzenegger ran for office on the premise that California needed to get its house in order, but the (budget limiting) 'Live Within Our Means Act' does absolutely nothing to fix the state's structural fiscal problems," Spence said.
Some of the stakeholders joining tonight's protest have disagreements with Schwarzenegger that began building before the governor decided to hold a special election.
The nurses union, for instance, first clashed with the governor in the fall, when Schwarzenegger issued an emergency regulation blocking the implementation of stricter nurse-to-patient ratios.
The union lobbied for more than
10 years to get the ratios into law, signed by Davis in 1999.
The California Nurses Association sued the state over the emergency regulation, and last month a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the union. Hospitals were required to comply with the ratios immediately, including one nurse for every five patients on busy surgical units.
The association launched a billboard campaign Monday at its headquarters in Oakland in anticipation of the massive protest against Schwarzenegger in San Francisco today.
"We are here to take care of our patients, and we feel this is not Arnold's agenda," said Rose Ann De Moro, executive director of the association, which represents 60,000 registered nurses statewide.
The initial campaign features a menacing-looking Schwarzenegger juxtaposed against Patricia Gonzalez, a nurse at Children's Hospital Oakland. Above the two portraits reads, "She heals. He wheels & deals."
In Santa Monica, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights staged a similar rollout of roving billboards that will travel to protests.
Staff writer Rebecca Vesely contributed to his report.
Contact Sacramento Bureau Chief Steve Geissinger at sgeissinger [at] angnewspapers.com.
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Rowdy protests greet governor at S.F. fund-raiser
- John Wildermuth, Carla Marinucci and Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Noisy demonstrators armed with signs and outrage once again greeted an increasingly beleaguered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- this time at San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton Hotel -- when he arrived for a Tuesday evening fund-raiser.
Some people came alone, others with groups. Neophyte protesters mixed with veteran activists. Tourists on cable cars waved and snapped pictures, motorists honked, and the music ranged from "Born in the U.S.A." to "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
A few thousand boisterous protesters eventually materialized, with the rowdy crowd resembling a union rally in front of one of the city's poshest hotels.
Inside, about 100 people paid $1,000 each to attend the fund-raiser sponsored by Citizens to Save California, with some contributing thousands more for pictures and a pre-dinner reception with the governor.
The group has pledged to raise $13 million to put a number of initiatives on the ballot, including measures to limit pensions for public employees, require merit pay for teachers, make it easier to trim state spending and change the way political boundaries are drawn.
Protester Juanita Yee, 40, of Brisbane, showed up to denounce the governor for failing to support public education in the ways he had promised.
"I can't afford private school," said Yee, who has four kids. "It's not an option with a stay-at-home mom and a father who's a union plumber."
Santa Clara fire Capt. Bill Stone had never attended a protest before, but was spurred to do so Tuesday by proposed benefit cuts for public safety employees.
"Firefighters will step up when it's an issue that affects people like teachers," said Stone, who arrived with seven other firefighters from Local 1171 in Santa Clara.
The crowd was largely middle-aged, equipped with signs such as "Grope-n-ator, keep your hands off our retirement" and "Nurses heal, Arnold wheels and deals."
A concession worker at SBC Park went directly from the San Francisco Giants home opener to the protest at the Nob Hill hotel. "The issues hit close to home for everybody," said the worker, Richard Abrahams, 49.
Donors were booed and taunted as they entered the hotel from Pine Street, while the governor slipped in a California Street entrance.
Protesters surged onto Pine Street a little after 6 p.m., forcing police to shut down the block between Grant Avenue and California Street. Meanwhile, demonstrators 40-deep lined a block of California Street and repeatedly chanted, "Recall Arnold."
John Bilicska, 46, an unemployed North Beach resident who used to work at UC Irvine, said, "The governor's calling the people who do the work the special interests, while the businesses that are shipping our jobs overseas are just great. I don't trust him. He's a typical Republican politician."
Some protesters circulated petitions calling for cheaper prescription drugs, a carbuyer's bill of rights and an initiative to regulate PG&E statewide.
Code Pink, a group founded by women to protest the war in Iraq, also showed up -- and not the same way as the other protesters.
Instead, they rented a $325-a-night room in the hotel, donned pink wigs and hung an anti-Schwarzenegger banner out a window before hotel security intervened.
Sandra Lowe of the California Teachers Association, who also is a school board member in Sonoma, said, "I'm shocked at the number of people who've come, particularly from the North Bay. It's a beautiful day in the Bay Area, and to fight traffic to come down here -- that's a real commitment."
Doug Bates, 54, a music teacher in the Sonoma Unified School District, was one of those protesters.
"Eventually these cuts will trickle down to the students, and they might eliminate music programs in the schools," Bates said.
The protest wasn't expected to hurt the attendance or the fund-raising because much of the money already had been paid or pledged.
"Our supporters understand that the people outside protesting don't represent the majority of Californians,'' said Joanne Monaco, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Save California.
Schwarzenegger has headlined fund-raisers for the group in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Jose, with one scheduled for San Diego later this month. The efforts have raised million for the initiative drive.
He has deemed the measures a much-needed reform package to get California back on its financial feet, and is expected to call a special election that would put the initiatives on the ballot in November.
The protest organizers weren't content to limit their efforts to the hotel on Tuesday. The California Nurses Association drove a mobile anti-Schwarzenegger billboard to opening day at SBC Park and had an airplane flying over the city with a banner saying: "Arnold: California is not for sale."
"We're going to have a blast,'' said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurses group. "We've been protesting at 38 of the governor's fund-raisers since November, and we expect this to be the most significant."
Earlier on Tuesday, protesters also took their complaints to the governor's biggest financial backers. Demonstrators showed up outside the Gap store on Post Street in midafternoon to protest the $225,000 that company founder Don Fisher and his family have given to Schwarzenegger and his committees.
About 25 demonstrators showed up and called for a boycott of the clothing chain. The group, California Consumers United, consisted of college students and consumer activists.
Although modest, the protest at the Gap -- which has its headquarters in San Francisco -- signals a more aggressive and broader approach to protesting the governor's policies.
"I shop at the Gap, and Donald Fisher's support helps Arnold, so I want to send a message that we'd really like him to get behind students instead," said Erin Garvey, a 29-year-old law student at the University of San Francisco. "It makes sense that if you're so reliant on students as consumers, you should listen to their needs."
Protester Owen Stephens, 26, a sociology student at San Francisco City College, said the word-of-mouth effort particularly appeals to young people concerned with budget cuts to education.
"The governator likes to accuse people of being special interests," he said. "Are students special interests? Every purchase that I make here goes to more money for Arnold."
Republican Party officials -- and the governor's staff -- kept away from Tuesday's Ritz-Carlton protest. Rob Stutzman, the governor's spokesman, tried to downplay the anti-Schwarzenegger crowds, telling reporters at a Sacramento briefing that those complaining about the governor's agenda were little more than paid shills.
"It's obvious when you go to San Francisco, you're going to get large protests when you're doing something controversial,'' he said "So we're not at all surprised that there will be a large turnout tonight of protesters, many of which are paid, union protesters punching the clock.
"Attributing significance to a large protest crowd in San Francisco -- I think you have to be careful about that. San Francisco is a built-in protest on virtually anything."
Union organizers denied that workers were getting paid to show up at the protest, and Stutzman declined to offer any evidence of payments from the unions.
In a telephone interview with The Chronicle, Stutzman complained that the protesters represented special interest groups anxious to hold on to budget-busting agreements they made with former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
"In order to reform the state, you bet there has to be a rollback of the sweetheart deals they accumulated," Stutzman said.
The special interest label Schwarzenegger has pinned on his opponents has infuriated nurses, teachers and other public employees.
"It's a sign of (Schwarzenegger's) autocratic nature,'' said DeMoro of the nurses' union. "Everyone who has a contrary opinion is suddenly a special interest.''
The crowd out in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel shows how the governor miscalculated, she added.
"He's going after people like teachers, nurses, police and firefighters, people who have deep roots in their local communities,'' DeMoro said. "We didn't even do a mailing to get people here. We just talked to our members, and had them call their families and friends.''
Chronicle staff writer Joe Garofoli contributed to this report.
E-mail the writers at jwildermuth [at] sfchronicle.com, cmarinucci [at] sfchronicle.com and pyollin [at] sfchronicle.com
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/06/GOV.TMP
©2005 San Francisco Chronicle
Rowdy protests greet governor at S.F. fund-raiser
- John Wildermuth, Carla Marinucci and Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Noisy demonstrators armed with signs and outrage once again greeted an increasingly beleaguered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- this time at San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton Hotel -- when he arrived for a Tuesday evening fund-raiser.
Some people came alone, others with groups. Neophyte protesters mixed with veteran activists. Tourists on cable cars waved and snapped pictures, motorists honked, and the music ranged from "Born in the U.S.A." to "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
A few thousand boisterous protesters eventually materialized, with the rowdy crowd resembling a union rally in front of one of the city's poshest hotels.
Inside, about 100 people paid $1,000 each to attend the fund-raiser sponsored by Citizens to Save California, with some contributing thousands more for pictures and a pre-dinner reception with the governor.
The group has pledged to raise $13 million to put a number of initiatives on the ballot, including measures to limit pensions for public employees, require merit pay for teachers, make it easier to trim state spending and change the way political boundaries are drawn.
Protester Juanita Yee, 40, of Brisbane, showed up to denounce the governor for failing to support public education in the ways he had promised.
"I can't afford private school," said Yee, who has four kids. "It's not an option with a stay-at-home mom and a father who's a union plumber."
Santa Clara fire Capt. Bill Stone had never attended a protest before, but was spurred to do so Tuesday by proposed benefit cuts for public safety employees.
"Firefighters will step up when it's an issue that affects people like teachers," said Stone, who arrived with seven other firefighters from Local 1171 in Santa Clara.
The crowd was largely middle-aged, equipped with signs such as "Grope-n-ator, keep your hands off our retirement" and "Nurses heal, Arnold wheels and deals."
A concession worker at SBC Park went directly from the San Francisco Giants home opener to the protest at the Nob Hill hotel. "The issues hit close to home for everybody," said the worker, Richard Abrahams, 49.
Donors were booed and taunted as they entered the hotel from Pine Street, while the governor slipped in a California Street entrance.
Protesters surged onto Pine Street a little after 6 p.m., forcing police to shut down the block between Grant Avenue and California Street. Meanwhile, demonstrators 40-deep lined a block of California Street and repeatedly chanted, "Recall Arnold."
John Bilicska, 46, an unemployed North Beach resident who used to work at UC Irvine, said, "The governor's calling the people who do the work the special interests, while the businesses that are shipping our jobs overseas are just great. I don't trust him. He's a typical Republican politician."
Some protesters circulated petitions calling for cheaper prescription drugs, a carbuyer's bill of rights and an initiative to regulate PG&E statewide.
Code Pink, a group founded by women to protest the war in Iraq, also showed up -- and not the same way as the other protesters.
Instead, they rented a $325-a-night room in the hotel, donned pink wigs and hung an anti-Schwarzenegger banner out a window before hotel security intervened.
Sandra Lowe of the California Teachers Association, who also is a school board member in Sonoma, said, "I'm shocked at the number of people who've come, particularly from the North Bay. It's a beautiful day in the Bay Area, and to fight traffic to come down here -- that's a real commitment."
Doug Bates, 54, a music teacher in the Sonoma Unified School District, was one of those protesters.
"Eventually these cuts will trickle down to the students, and they might eliminate music programs in the schools," Bates said.
The protest wasn't expected to hurt the attendance or the fund-raising because much of the money already had been paid or pledged.
"Our supporters understand that the people outside protesting don't represent the majority of Californians,'' said Joanne Monaco, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Save California.
Schwarzenegger has headlined fund-raisers for the group in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Jose, with one scheduled for San Diego later this month. The efforts have raised million for the initiative drive.
He has deemed the measures a much-needed reform package to get California back on its financial feet, and is expected to call a special election that would put the initiatives on the ballot in November.
The protest organizers weren't content to limit their efforts to the hotel on Tuesday. The California Nurses Association drove a mobile anti-Schwarzenegger billboard to opening day at SBC Park and had an airplane flying over the city with a banner saying: "Arnold: California is not for sale."
"We're going to have a blast,'' said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurses group. "We've been protesting at 38 of the governor's fund-raisers since November, and we expect this to be the most significant."
Earlier on Tuesday, protesters also took their complaints to the governor's biggest financial backers. Demonstrators showed up outside the Gap store on Post Street in midafternoon to protest the $225,000 that company founder Don Fisher and his family have given to Schwarzenegger and his committees.
About 25 demonstrators showed up and called for a boycott of the clothing chain. The group, California Consumers United, consisted of college students and consumer activists.
Although modest, the protest at the Gap -- which has its headquarters in San Francisco -- signals a more aggressive and broader approach to protesting the governor's policies.
"I shop at the Gap, and Donald Fisher's support helps Arnold, so I want to send a message that we'd really like him to get behind students instead," said Erin Garvey, a 29-year-old law student at the University of San Francisco. "It makes sense that if you're so reliant on students as consumers, you should listen to their needs."
Protester Owen Stephens, 26, a sociology student at San Francisco City College, said the word-of-mouth effort particularly appeals to young people concerned with budget cuts to education.
"The governator likes to accuse people of being special interests," he said. "Are students special interests? Every purchase that I make here goes to more money for Arnold."
Republican Party officials -- and the governor's staff -- kept away from Tuesday's Ritz-Carlton protest. Rob Stutzman, the governor's spokesman, tried to downplay the anti-Schwarzenegger crowds, telling reporters at a Sacramento briefing that those complaining about the governor's agenda were little more than paid shills.
"It's obvious when you go to San Francisco, you're going to get large protests when you're doing something controversial,'' he said "So we're not at all surprised that there will be a large turnout tonight of protesters, many of which are paid, union protesters punching the clock.
"Attributing significance to a large protest crowd in San Francisco -- I think you have to be careful about that. San Francisco is a built-in protest on virtually anything."
Union organizers denied that workers were getting paid to show up at the protest, and Stutzman declined to offer any evidence of payments from the unions.
In a telephone interview with The Chronicle, Stutzman complained that the protesters represented special interest groups anxious to hold on to budget-busting agreements they made with former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
"In order to reform the state, you bet there has to be a rollback of the sweetheart deals they accumulated," Stutzman said.
The special interest label Schwarzenegger has pinned on his opponents has infuriated nurses, teachers and other public employees.
"It's a sign of (Schwarzenegger's) autocratic nature,'' said DeMoro of the nurses' union. "Everyone who has a contrary opinion is suddenly a special interest.''
The crowd out in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel shows how the governor miscalculated, she added.
"He's going after people like teachers, nurses, police and firefighters, people who have deep roots in their local communities,'' DeMoro said. "We didn't even do a mailing to get people here. We just talked to our members, and had them call their families and friends.''
Chronicle staff writer Joe Garofoli contributed to this report.
E-mail the writers at jwildermuth [at] sfchronicle.com, cmarinucci [at] sfchronicle.com and pyollin [at] sfchronicle.com
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/06/GOV.TMP
©2005 San Francisco Chronicle
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I'm writing on behalf of our Italian foreign language subletter who attended the Arnold demo. He was in with a crush of people around 5ish tonight at the corner of Pine and Stockton and was plucked out and arrested.
We are looking for witnesses who saw what happened and could give a statement to our lawyer.
Please email coop22sf [at] yahoo.com if you have any info. By the way, he's about 5'9", black hair, dark skin, dark brown eyes, and wearing a black polo shirt and black pants. Thanks so much.
We are looking for witnesses who saw what happened and could give a statement to our lawyer.
Please email coop22sf [at] yahoo.com if you have any info. By the way, he's about 5'9", black hair, dark skin, dark brown eyes, and wearing a black polo shirt and black pants. Thanks so much.
This was one of the most inspiring street actions that I have been to in years. The nurses took the street. The older women led the crowd into the street, it was so cool and militant and it was a cross section of unions, races, ages, and kids in the streets. The typical socialists and Larouche wingnuts were relatively minor presences. It was also really great to really hear people let loose on the rich motherfuckers that were going in...reclaim the streets.....
linked off this ap story
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a few hundred union cronies and a few on lookers. that's all!
just as a foot note; those poor underpaid nurses that are out there have a starting income right out of school (with out a specialty) $70,000 to 84,000 here in the bay area. if they work graveyard then it's about 90,000 with Over time 120,000 poor abused little baby's let's all shed a tear if they have to take a minor pay cut.
just as a foot note; those poor underpaid nurses that are out there have a starting income right out of school (with out a specialty) $70,000 to 84,000 here in the bay area. if they work graveyard then it's about 90,000 with Over time 120,000 poor abused little baby's let's all shed a tear if they have to take a minor pay cut.
This was one of the most inspiring street actions that I have been to in years. The nurses took the street. The older women led the crowd into the street. then when it was over they got into their beemers and drove back to their Palo Alto house in the hills. I am still just so excited about this.
(hay! my life sucks in compairison) when do I get to be that rich?
(hay! my life sucks in compairison) when do I get to be that rich?
Right on! Your syblings to the north suport you! Your brothers and sisters in Portland (little Beruit) and Seattle give you our support. Lets break these fascists! Make Cascadia or Ecotopia!
yeah I am sure that everyone wants underpaid nurses, no one is ever like damn dude that doctor that saved my life makes too much money. For me and a large percentage of the populace, when we have medical emergencies we mainly see nurses, maybe a doctor for 5-10 minutes. Nurses are the the front line of capitalist medical care. Respect to them.
Why don't you haters go down to your local fire station and tell the firem people that they make too much money and shouldn't get retirement benies? Those people were out there too, those lazy teachers, police, and other public servants don't deserve living wages or retirement either. Let's just outsource it all to india.
Finally something has woken the unions up, not completely but hopefully people will upset enough to fight for something.
Why don't you haters go down to your local fire station and tell the firem people that they make too much money and shouldn't get retirement benies? Those people were out there too, those lazy teachers, police, and other public servants don't deserve living wages or retirement either. Let's just outsource it all to india.
Finally something has woken the unions up, not completely but hopefully people will upset enough to fight for something.
Really Cool protest. It was cool to see regular people get rowdy and block the entrance to the hotel.
Wow! 5 years of intense study and they make 70,000!!!! And they work such easy hours!! How much does Governor make? How much do his donors make?? Not 70,000! And I know a teacher who makes 55,000!! And she works one weekend day a week in her classroom.
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