10,000 Protest the Gropenator.

10,000 protest governor, Sharp words from public workers he has called 'special interests'

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sacramento -- Thousands of public employees staged the biggest political rallies of the year at the state Capitol and in Los Angeles on Wednesday, charging that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's policy agenda shortchanges schoolchildren and undermines the fabric of California's poor and middle class.

The protests came after weeks of increasingly heated, campaign-style rhetoric from both sides as Schwarzenegger moved the state closer to a special election on issues such as state spending and teacher tenure.

Schwarzenegger has derided unions as "special interests" whose grip on Democratic party politics is the source of many of the state's ills. At the Capitol on Wednesday, firefighters, teachers, nurses and others -- many wearing the insignias of their professions -- stood under a sweltering late- afternoon sun and, in the most charged and personal rhetoric yet, fired back.

"The CEO of California is ... picking on women in wheelchairs," Frances Gracechild, director of Resources for Independent Living, told a crowd of roughly 10,000 people. "The only thing I can think of so he won't have to do hard time in hell is resign."

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The Legislature got a raise after 8 years and he's saying it's them who's taking money from the old, kids, and even the blind! What a scum bag since those are the very people he's throwing out in the cold. Going down, washed out not talent actor.

to head up N Street by the Capitol. It looked magnificent!!!!!

could you pick on the sick, the elderly, people who help the sick & elderly, and get away with it. However, bravo to the 10,000 Californians who stood up to the Gropenator. I'm proud of my state today!

Frances Gracechild, director of Resources for Independent Living -- "The CEO of California is ... picking on women in wheelchairs."

Arnie the Action Hero isn't used to the "audience" rooting for the termination of his performance.