CA: Schwarzenegger risks angering women by targeting nurses, teachers

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/21/05 | Beth Fouhy - AP

[PRND21]

Union swan song?
Arnold continues to piss off the right people.

[xm177e2]

Nurses and teachers want more money. They think they can get it by calling Arnold a pig. So they will.

And we're supposed to believe this is some high-minded form of political consciousness amongst oppressed women? Give me a break.

[JesseJane]

the widespread public fondness for teachers and nurses.

I'm not so sure that lovestory endures.

[the invisib1e hand]

oh, dear, we don't want to anger the women!

[Sloth]

"He behaves like an arrogant patriarch with respect to women's occupations,"

Uh, I thought it was sexist to suggest that certain jobs are "women's work."

[NormsRevenge]

Beth Fouhy has been writing in this veins for months. ;-)

Just wait until he calls them 'Swiney Gals'. . lol

[Free_at_last_-2001]

women's occupations????? - SEXISM!

[NormsRevenge]

Good point..

I wonder if Maria had male of female nurses attending to her when she broke her foot a few months ago?

[conshack]

"He behaves like an arrogant patriarch with respect to women's occupations,"

So we DO have women's and men's positions huh? What a sexist statement.
If Arnold had called either a "women's occupation", he'd have been branded sexist. It's a "no win" for the Terminator.

[Malleus Dei]

Teachers = women? Nurses = women? Sexist assumptions. For shame, you stupid Leftists.

All this is is yet another Leftist attempt to spread a Big Lie.

[AmericanMade1776]

If anyone is a sexist here, it is the person who made this statement

"He behaves like an arrogant patriarch with respect to women's occupations," said Rose Ann De Moro, executive director of the California Nurses Association. "Nurses, teachers, home health workers - it's vulgar how he's run roughshod over them. He's arrogant, and he's a bully."

[abercrombie_guy_38]

"The special interests don't like me in Sacramento because I am always kicking their butts."

How does that statement hurt or discredit women? I'm confused.

Keep doing what you're doing, Arnold.

[CATravelAgent]

"oh, dear, we don't want to anger the women!"

wait! wait! but what about the children?

[river rat]

"Organized Teachers" have long since lost any claim to the "people's love".....

They long ago became self centered, self interested, leftist unionists...with a political agenda wrapped in financial self interest...

[FormerNavyBrat]

"The arrogance of taking on teachers, nurses and other professions where women are underpaid, overworked and vital to society is beyond the pale," said Jamie Court...

blah, blah, blah...it's always the same old story with these people.

[Frohickey]

If the nurses and teachers want more money, they could get it by disbanding their unions, and pocketting their union dues.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Arnold is pulling the squeeling piggies off the public sow. They are going to squeel and squeel!

[Lizavetta]

Hasn't Arnold done the same with the casinos (men), prison system (men), and pensions (men and women)?

This looks like another "gender card" moment and nothing more.