Posted on 06/22/2010 8:11:56 AM PDT by SmithL
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman escalated her battle with the California Nurses Association this morning by debuting a website criticizing the union and unveiling internal polling showing Democratic rival Jerry Brown leading Whitman by three percentage points among nurses statewide.
The website, titled "Truth for Nurses," features articles and a video accusing the nurses union of, among other things, paying exorbitant salaries to its president and other executives and wasting members' dues on political activity, such as a running protest featuring an actress playing Queen Meg - a parody of the billionaire candidate.
The internal poll, conducted by Hill Research Consultants, says 34 percent of the state's nurses belong to a union and that 57 percent of the state's nurses "are more likely to support Whitman when they hear that 'she supports California's current law on nurse-to-patient ratios and that she opposes any effort to weaken those rules ratios,'" according to a memo by the polling firm.
At a May 18 town hall in Roseville, Whitman declined to take a position on the staffing issue, saying, "I haven't actually said anything about nursing ratios."
The poll also says 84 percent of nurses think it is a "bad use of dues" for the nurses union "to spend $50,000 on a shrink-wrapped bus to protest 'Queen Meg.'"
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If Meg can take on the unions, she’ll get my support. Of course, I have to vote for her in Nov anyway.
The nurses’ union is incredible, total lockstep for BO.
I think Ahnold actually tried to take on the unions early on but gave up—not sure how Meg thinks she can handle them more effectively.
But I certainly can’t vote for Linda Rondstat’s ex.
The unions are never going to support a Republic (individual members will). There is no point in trying to “win” their support.
Meg needs to make the case that public employee unions are one of the reason the state is going broke.
They are going to play very dirty and she should be prepared to hit back
As a nurse myself, I have to say that my collegues need to stop being useful idiots for left wing political activist groups disguised as labor unions. Nurses accomplish nothing by belonging to these organizations. What a joke
It can get really offensive if not downright dangerous. Imagine being prepped for surgery when the nurse realizes you are a conservative pundit. True story. Not that she did anything harmful but that kind of hostility doesn’t make for a healthy situation for a patient.
Not all nurses are like that— this one was especially Obamanutz crazy.
Haha!!! I’ve worked with a few of those. There’s one OR nurse in particular who’s a huge leftie!! So much so that she volunteers to work in all the rooms that have abortions scheduled in them then she brags about her “non-judgemental open-mindedness”. I’d like to tell her that she’s so open-minded her brain fell out.
Makes me think of a Reagan quote from when he was shot and he said something like he remembered hoping all the doctors were republicans. Very cute! I sure do miss that man.
Amen to that.
These tards are so brainwashed they are a menace to their patients.
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