Cal workers kick a lot of Arnie butt in Sacramento

At least 30,000 braved high temperatures and a relentless sun to demonstrate against the governor and his agenda in Sacramento on Wednesday, May 25th.

I wasn’t a single issue that brought California workers together --- it was all of them.

A small plane circled, flying a banner saying “Arnold: California is not for sale.” Sponsored by arnoldwatch.org and calnurses.org it was a message oft repeated.

Teachers, students and families all had the same message --- hands off California.

California firefighters provided an excellent performance by their official pipe and drum corps.

The guvernator's attacks on workers and our rights to education, healthcare, dignity, include a vile and deceitful attempt to take away death benefits from families of first responders killed in the line of duty.

His proposal to privatize pension funds has met with resounding resistance from all but his rich corporate pals, who want to use those funds to line their own pockets.

Students and teachers from the Rocklin High jazz band gave an outstanding performance. Music and the arts are considered unnecessary by the man who brazenly stole $1.8 from California’s schools.

The safety and condition of our ports and waterways is of great concern to all of us. What has the guvernator done to improve them? Nada.

Many voters put the Schwarzenazi in office because of his screen persona --- they won’t make that mistake again.

Nurses stations and water stations were set up in numerous places. Nonetheless some demonstrators just wore out. Concerned about rising prescription drug costs a father and son carry a sign protesting the “pharma-nater.”

The Senior Action Network bussed up from San Francisco to make their voices heard.

The Schwarzenazi has become the person he campaigned against. Somehow, he thinks no one is noticing. His rhetoric is on a downhill slide. At first, it was only “one” group of Native Americans was gumming up the works. Then it was only “one” group of nurses gumming up the works. Now his we/they rhetoric and mentality are coming to the fore and he has dissenters arrested whenever he can get away with it.

What Arnie doesn’t understand is that those “ones” of his are actually the one voice of health care professionals, the one voice of firefighters, the one voice of teachers, the one voice of workers that is rapidly becoming the one voice of the people of California, ready to oust a ‘roid raging governor.

The messages were many and they were crystal clear. Transport workers summed it up with this banner.