Posted on 06/02/2010 10:20:45 AM PDT by SmithL
WESTMINSTER – After spending more than $80 million and building a major lead in public opinion polls, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman may finally have met her match Tuesday in the parking lot of the Asian Garden Mall.
The billionaire candidate was delivering her stump speech to about 150 people at an open-air rally when about 50 protesters from the California Nurses Association and its schoolteacher allies interrupted by chanting and blowing whistles just a few dozen yards away.
Flanked by banners reading "Take Back Sac," Whitman finished her speech without acknowledging the protesters and later said she wouldn't let the unions stop her from talking about her plans for the state. But it was clear Tuesday that the nurses union was aiming to play the giant killer again this election year.
"We hope we got people to look at the other side and figure out what's going on," said Long Beach-based nurse Margie Keenan, who took part in the protest. "It's pretty sad. We're the working people of California. We're the ones who she's trying to cut our pensions. … That's firefighters, nurses, people on the front lines who take care of the community."
The unions will be repeating history if they manage to wound Whitman this election year.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
What a shock. The public employee unions who are destroying this and almost every other city, county and state don’t want any changes. I hope we go in the toilet.
We're the working people of California. We're the ones who she's trying to cut our pensions...who take care of the community...with our heads stuck firmly up our -----! (Where's that graphic)"
I say that they should all be guaranteed their pensions, in perpetuity, paid in full with checks from the CA treasury...that will bounce like a red rubber ball.
Union thugs
Somewhere down the road, they will pay dearly. They’re
too money hungry to care now.
Obviously, they and ALL the unions will be for Jerry Brown who signed the law legalizing "Public Servant" unions in CA!!!
So who's doing their jobs while they traipse around harassing candidates?
We are also semi-literate.
Also sounds like the teachers’ unions hiding behind nurses.
We're the ones who she's trying to cut our pensions.
We are also semi-literate.
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