Posted on 01/16/2006 4:39:43 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to mend fences with labor today by appearing at a union-sponsored breakfast here in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
After a few scattered boos, the audience listened politely to his speech and laughed at his Terminator jokes.
But when it was over, Tim Paulson, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, harangued the governor for ``attacking all of us in our community.''
``There were so many people who wanted to walk out of this breakfast here today,'' Paulson said, to enthusiastic applause.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also got in a jab, saying the special election that Schwarzenegger called in November was a threat to King and the social justice for which he fought.
``We can't talk about our sense of community and devalue our teachers,''she said.
Millard Larkin, II, who organized the labor and community breakfast, said it was the governor's idea to attend.
``The governor wanted to come and extend the olive branch,'' Larkin said.``The entire labor community was unhappy about the governor coming.''
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---The entire labor community was unhappy about the governor coming.---
Commie SOB's!
Should have broken labor's back, Arnie, it's the one hope for your state.
Yeah, as if California really, really needs more socialism, if not marxism.
This article has me nearly sympathetic to Schwarzenegger. The unions, Pelosi, they just do not realize how extensive is their intrusion on the lives of the average Californian, if not the rest of the country.
And yet, perhaps they do realize it.
George Washington's birthday is no longer even mentioned in any of the public or private schools here.
But the teachers and students do mention "Presidents' Day and take MLK Day as a holiday from school.
California's teachers union just may inspire most Americans to completely loathe public education.
Ooops, too late.
San Francisco, perhaps the most beautiful city in America.
And filled with the ugliest, nastiest, most hateful elitists you'll ever encounter.
Leni
And yet, perhaps they do realize it.
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Yes they do. They are anti-American scum that we should run out of this country --- or give them the choice of a one-way ticket to Cuba. They can have all the communism they want there...
And Bush was a bad guy for declining to attend an event with these same big labor thugs so that he could be harangued and booed. Screw 'em.
Here's a governor who just proposed spending $200B on union labor work and he's unwelcome?
This is either the height of greed or ignorance.
Unions in California will not be defeated until the republican party engages them as they did on a national level when they engaged Kerry by getting out the ground vote. Arnold was outspent two to one. Unions organized nationally to defeat the propositions. California unions are a blight to the entire nation. We cant fight them here by ourselves. We tried. We failed. Now Arnold is contrite in failure and de-clawed. At least the Unions went into debt just to maintain the status quo.
I say KEEP FIGHTING! They are weaker.
ARGH! But Arnold wont. He is too focused on re-election now. Making nice.
...Oh, sorry. I thought this was going to be like "Junior".
I was going for a bit more restraint than that, but, yes, you're completely correct.
I vote for "greed."
I think both.
I give Arnie credit for even showing up to address these thugs.
There has to be a more pleasant way to celebrate the holiday.
Agreed.
This particular group would have preferred that public schools be closed for 5 years and the education budget be used for "infrastructure improvements" ...at prevailing wages, of course.
They'll have to settle for "accidentally" dropping every other crate at the docks to refurnish their homes.
It's because he has the big R in his title. If he was a DemonRat and proposed 10% of that spending amount, they'd be singing his praises and giving him civic awards. As for height of greed or ignorance, I would say both.
Agreed
Ever wondered why the Wilson administration got the title the gang that couldn't shoot straight in the 1990s?
I'm sure Schwarzenegger attended expecting a postive or at least polite reception based on the gang's advice that they'll just love the bonding you've proposed, trust us.
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