Firefighters forced to stand with Arnold at press conf.

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So how did Schwarzenegger find 20 firefighters eager to pose with him?

He didn't, says Pat McOsker, president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles, who went to the command center to check on the condition of colleagues who had been on the job for three days with little sleep. He says the men and women flanking the governor were acting under duress.

Some of the firefighters, he says, approached him at the command center. "They say, 'Hey, we've been told we're going to be a part of this press conference with the governor. Can they do that? Can they make us stand with him? We're not happy about it.' "

McOsker told them to go ask their chiefs if they were required to follow such an order.

The answer was yes.
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Rather than dispute the contention, Schwarzenegger said everybody is ordered to do things at one point or another. Someone was ordered to put up the podium, he said. Someone was ordered to bring in the microphone.

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-lopez05oct05,1,2722972,full.column?coll=la-news-columns

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such a flaming asshole?

Go back to wherever you came from, you * crony (and copy cat, nonetheless!) No originality, no class!

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Arnold sucks as a governor. He ran against special interests, then coddled the corporate tit. The whole time he declares groups that represent the people and workers special interests.

He's a frickin joke. And as for his special elections, what a waste of taxpayer money just because he couldn't get his way in the state legislator. I'm voting down everything that he wants, cause I've yet to see anything he's proposed actually be in the best interest of the people.

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