Abrupt firings leave some hard feelings (Payback is Heck)

The Sacramento Bee ^ | Thursday, November 20, 2003 | Gary Delsohn

[TommyUdo]

Governors always bring their own people with them when they assume power, but the way Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's staff is getting rid of some top officials is rattling nerves at the Capitol. The state's motor vehicle director was called on his cell phone a few hours after Schwarzenegger was sworn in Monday and told to immediately clear out his desk.

[TommyUdo]

Fired By Cell Phone! Emphasis mine.

[PMCarey]

What is best in life? As Conan the Governor says:

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

[ken5050]

Did they take all the "A" keys from the keyboards?

[NYFriend]

Every single one of the people fired knew or should have know it was comming from the moment the recall was finished. It could not have been a surprise.

[sheik yerbouty]

Another freeper expressed it thusly, "To crush the liberals, drive them before you, and to hear the lamentations of the media."

[chiefqc]

I suppose it's a litter better than the cleaning crew putting all your belongings in paper bags, tagging them with your name and placing them by the curb and then calling you to hurry and pick them up before there stolen.

[Dr. Zzyzx]

Beautiful....

[Dan from Michigan]

Everybody who follows politics knows that all new administrations bring in their own people.

[Roughneck]

LOL!

I think these folks were treated a lot better than they deserved.

[My2Cents]

Because he was having throat surgery the next day,

He was having a forked-tongue transplant.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I think these folks were treated a lot better than they deserved.

So beautifully stated. No further comment.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"This isn't the way you do anybody," Johannessen said of the way he was treated.

Shut the hell up you big pansy.  They can do it any way they want.

There are countries where the "transition team" would fire you with a bullet to the head.

[doubleA]

"Fire their asses", Hillary.

[whereasandsoforth]

He was having a kermitectomy. Which reminds me of a Micheal Jackson joke about why he doesn't go for french boys.

[Mr. Lucky]

...and?

[Dacus943]

At least he was treated much better that the guy running the White House Travel Office under Clinton!!!

[whereasandsoforth]

He doesn't want a frog in his throat. Sigh.

[Mr. Lucky]

It's destined to be a classic.

[NormsRevenge]

Can you hear me now, Maurice 8-? .. CLIck! .. No MOJo No Mo' :-)

Maurice Johannessen had been targeted by fellow Republicans for a budget vote as a senator.

Sacramento Bee file

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Johannessen, who was targeted for reprisals by Senate Republicans because he broke ranks and voted for Davis' budget when he was in the Senate, was so "ticked off" he drove right to his office, took everything that belonged to him, threw it in his car and went home to sleep.