Arnold, NO match for nurses, teachers & firefighters. Humiliating defeats!

"You don't win many fights with nurses"

"The election became the costliest in state history"

"It's a devastating loss for the governor. He's wasted a whole year in office because he has made this his whole program.''

"And by spending the year raising money from corporate donors, and then running a campaign that featured mostly (Bush like) controlled events among GOP supporters, Schwarzenegger made it easier for foes to portray him as pushing his Republican agenda."

"He's now carried out his thermonuclear threat to go to the ballot box, Guess who's going to get nuked -- and it's not the Democratic Legislature."

"The resounding defeat of the governor's self-styled reform effort leaves him weakened as he heads into his 2006 re-election campaign and forced to deal with a Democratic majority in the Legislature pumped up by Tuesday's victories.

And the election results -- defeats for teacher tenure (Proposition 74), union dues (Prop. 75), Schwarzenegger's signature budget reform measure (Prop. 76) and redistricting (Prop. 77) -- showed Democrats they have little to fear from opposing a governor who's increasingly seen as just another Republican in a state dominated by Democrats."

http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/

THE BEST LITTLE MUSCLEHEAD MONEY CAN BUY, THE LYING, GREEDY, ARROGANT, CORPORATE REPUBLICAN FASCIST...ARNOLD THE ASSHOLE!!

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I took the quotes from three different stories on, http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/

That's a shame. :)

because her nurse uniform raised suspicion. How pathetic is that I hope this is some vindication for that and the harm he is doing California.

and it wasn't even one of his 'rallies', it was a screening of the film "Be Cool" at the Crest theater in downtown Sacramento. Oh, and the jerk had to sneak in the backdoor of the theater because of the protestors out front...LOL

February 23, 2005

LA Times


Nurse Is Asked How She Got Into Screening Confrontation involving a film showing in the capital is latest flare-up between governor and nurses association over workforce issues.

By Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO — Kelly Di Giacomo said she received a call Tuesday from
one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bodyguards, asking how she got
into the "Be Cool" film screening attended here last week by the
governor.

Di Giacomo, a nurse at a Kaiser hospital near Sacramento who had been
detained at the theater for questioning, asked why she would be
considered a threat to Schwarzenegger. The bodyguard replied: "Well,
you were wearing a nurse's uniform," Di Giacomo said.

"Oh, sure, the international terrorist uniform," Di Giacomo scoffed.

The confrontation is the latest flare-up between members of the
California Nurses Assn. and the Schwarzenegger administration over
workforce issues. The nurses group is among the governor's most vocal
critics, willing to disrupt his events with loud protests.

At the Feb. 15 screening in Sacramento, they stood in the rain outside
the historic Crest Theatre near the Capitol, waving signs and booing.
Celebrities including Vince Vaughn and the Rock came to the showing,
which was organized to promote movies made in California.

Di Giacomo said she got a ticket to the event through a friend and
went to the Crest to protest outside and then watch the movie inside.

Sitting down in the fourth row, she said, she was approached by a
plainclothes security officer who asked her to follow him to a back
room. While a California Highway Patrol officer stood guard at the
door, the agent asked her if she intended to harm the governor.

"I told them that I am just a nurse," Di Giacomo. "I am just here to
see the movie. I am not breaking the law. It's a symbolic gesture for
someone to come in a nurse's uniform."

Di Giacomo said that for about an hour, she was alternately questioned
— about where she worked and why she was attending the event — and
asked to wait. Tammy DuTemple, a spokeswoman for the governor's CHP
security detail, said she was questioned for about 30 minutes.

DuTemple said Di Giacomo was allowed to return to her seat but
declined, instead rejoining the protest outside.

Precautions are taken "any time the governor is out on any kind of
public platform," DuTemple said. "It's not just the nurses. It's any
group which might turn and cause harm."

The security officer "just wanted to make sure there wasn't going to
be any kind of scene and that she doesn't want to hurt the governor,"
she said.

The investigator's Tuesday call to Di Giacomo was routine, DuTemple said.

The nurses group is angry about an order Schwarzenegger signed that
overturns new state regulations on how many nurses should be on duty
in emergency rooms and hospitals. Schwarzenegger cited a nursing
shortage, but nurses say patient safety is being threatened.

In December, a handful of nurses interrupted the governor's speech at
a women's conference in Long Beach. It disturbed Schwarzenegger enough
that he stopped his address before about 10,000 people, labeled the
nurses "special interests" and said he was "kicking their butts."

The nurses association said Schwarzenegger was using the CHP as his
"personal political police force" at the "Be Cool" screening.

"It's appalling that the highest constitutional officer of our state
feels a nurse's uniform is threatening," said the nurses association's
executive director, Rose Ann DeMoro.

http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2005w08/msg00084.htm

Bening were denied entrance to the Governor's rally..causing Bening to say..The Governor represents all of us, doesn't he?(paraphrasing)

because her nurse uniform raised suspicion. How pathetic is that I hope this is some vindication for that and the harm he is doing California.

DEMOCRATS!!!

This state belongs to us, (just ask George Bush)!

Terminated...

"Lou Paulson, president of the California Professional Firefighters, raised a broom over his head as it became clear all four of Schwarzenegger's initiatives would fail, leading a party in a Sacramento hotel in chants of "Sweep!''