Schwarzenegger risks angering women by targeting nurses, teachers

[rainbow4321]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050222-0006-ca-schwarzenegger-women.html


He has made headlines in recent months by deriding political opponents as "girlie men" and publicly ridiculing a group of nurses at a state women's conference.

His latest effort to paint the state's teachers as little more than a balky special interest group has angered many critics, who have begun to question why constituencies dominated by women have been singled out for such tough talk.

"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."

<snip>

The CNA has been even more vocal, taking out full-page newspaper ads suggesting Schwarzenegger's corporate campaign donors are the real special interests and are the influence behind his agenda. Last week, some 300 nurses and their supporters disrupted a movie premiere in Sacramento, booing Schwarzenegger as he posed with film stars Vince Vaughn and The Rock.

[callous taoboy]

1. As a male teacher, I request that The

Sphincternator take, and pass, the state high school graduation exam in order to hold on to his job. What an ass.

[HuckleB]

56. Time to show Arnold as the true wimp.

Are You Man Enough...To Be A Nurse?
http://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/about/ocnnews/rn_poster2002.htm

[wildflower]

2. Is he up for re-election soon? n/t

[Ranec]

10. 2006 is the next election I believe.

The CA governor is supposed to serve a 4 year term, but if I'm correct, Ahnuld only gets to finish out the rest of Davis' term.

[shanti]

27. yes and

he has the ballot boxes by the short hairs :grr:

[yellowcanine]

3. Sounds like Aahnold is building a winning coalition for reelection in

Callyfornia. "I've got an idea! Why don't we piss off as many different groups as possible?"

[Megahurtz]

4. All brawn

no brains.

[Democrats_win]

5. Does "targeting" mean groping? Y isn't he a registered sex offender?

[primavera]

11. Now there's a sensible question

Californians who voted for a serial sexual assaulter have no right to complain when he displays a predictably low regard for women. Maybe Californians should have thought about that when they still had the chance to do something about it in the ballot booth.

[Ilsa]

6. He had to have heart valve replacement surgery a few years ago...

maybe they removed his heart in the process.

He needs to remember that he could easily need hospitalization again in the future. Really nice, Arnold: piss off the professionals who will be taking care of you. Of course, they are pros, and they won't take it out on you, and you know that, don't you.

What an asshole.

[CBHagman]

12. Speaking of which...

...I'll bet he doesn't want a California nurse involved in his next physical. "Come here, Governor! I've coated the equipment for your colonoscopy with tabasco!" Sedated and vulnerable is not the way to face a constituency you've made cheap shots at and tried to screw over.

[livetohike]

7. Has he been taking lessons in arrogance from Bush?

Someone wake me from this nightmare please. Thank you in advance.

[GCP]

8. Maria must be SO proud of him

When will she admit she's married to a frikkin' nazi?

[Triana]

9. does he still have callouses on his knuckles...

...from when they dragged the ground as he finally walked out of the cave last week?

Just asking...

[Rose Siding]

13. You GO Rose Ann!

[BrendaStarr]

14. Will anything actually hurt the teflon governor?

Really, really?

I don't think so.

[DrZeeLit]

15. Of course he is a bully. Why do you think white male Republicans

voted for him?

They act and talk like victims. Their targets are working women and gays. They are on record to want both groups annihilated. Their fear is palpable. So they send the bully with the muscles and the big mouth to do their dirty work. Pathetic.

I hope the voters in CA begin a grassroots campaign ASAP -- do NOT wait until the election.

[rainbow4321]

29. A nurse was detained at the movie premiere protest

http://www.calnurse.org/?Action=Content&id=698

RNs Denounce Gov. for Harassment of Nurse Critics

Gov. Security: ‘Wearing nurses uniform threatening to governor’

The California Nurses Association today condemned Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the personal use of the California Highway Patrol as a political police force to harass Registered Nurse critics just one week after the governor’s security detail detained an RN for wearing a hospital nurse uniform during a film premiere attended by the governor. CNA strongly criticized the targeting of RNs by Schwarzenegger for harassment by state police officers for RNs’ criticism of his record on healthcare and patient safety.


This morning after a report of the incident appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Kelly DiGiacomo, RN, the Sacramento nurse, who was wrongfully detained at the film event February 15 at which Schwarzenegger spoke, was called by a state security officer. The officer said they were continuing to investigate “any incidents where we feel the governor may have been threatened.” The “threatening act,” according to the officer was “because I was wearing a nurses uniform,” DiGiacomo said.


Last week, DiGiacomo had a ticket to attend the Sacramento premiere of Be Cool: Get Shorty II. While seated in the audience, in her nurses’ uniform, DiGiacomo was approached by an undercover officer who demanded to see her ticket and pulled her out of the audience. DiGiacomo was then detained in a small back room where she was interrogated for an hour by an undercover officer while other officers guarded her. She was then held for another 30 minutes before her release.


But the harassment has continued, with the phone call today and the thinly veiled threat that the interrogation and harassment will continue. “How is it that someone can be considered a threat simply for wearing nurses’ scrubs? They really treated me like I was some sort of a serious threat or a terrorist,” says an outraged DiGiacomo. “I’m sure they will have a file on me now because they really profiled me.”

[NYC]

31. Is wearing a nurse's uniform against the law?

I thought not.

[Rose Siding]

33. kick

[cyclezealot]

16. Arni has been getting a free ride because Democrats are afraid of him.

Take him on..Make him spend some of his political capital..He is the fat cat who can't pronounce California...He is a fool, so make him into that fool...

[SoCalDem]

17. The Bully-man loves attacking the "little people"

He is disgusting, and I sure hope he gets tossed out on his ass:)

[AnneD]

18. A longshoreman would blush......

If he heard or read what some of the nurses were saying about Arnuld. I know many here are non nurses so let me clue you in.....Nurses are patient advocates...we work for you to keep you safe and to make sure you are cared for in a manner conducive to restoring health. Hospitals have a profit motive and want more for less. They frequently give nurses too many patients to safely and effectively care for. We want to do it safe, they want to do it cheap. We protest and vote with our feet, they donate obscene amounts of money to campaigns. We had made real progress in Ca. by mandating nurse to patient ratios, and Arnuld wants to undo that. It takes a lot for nurses to strike and even more for them to unionize...but health care in America has come down to that. So next time you hear bad press about a Nurses Strike, remember what I am telling you....we are patient advocates first and foremost. And Arnuld, if you ever get sick in Ca (and you will eventually from all that steroid use), I am not saying you won't get good care 'cause unlike some WE are professionals, BUT I will be taking care of the other 10-12 patient I have before I can get to you. Too bad, we use to have to care for only 5-6 on our 12 hr (+ mandatory over time) shift.

[rainbow4321]

19. And then the hospitals try to go for "magnet status"...

For the non-nurses: That is a fancy shmancy way for a hospital to say "we are wonderful, we can get all the nurses we need and our nurses never leave"...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...<catching breath>...back to reality...
The only thing hospitals care about is "a pulse and a license" and how cheap can they be in paying for said pulse/license. Our facility put out a glossy brochure "things we have accomplished in 2004 and want to accomplish in 2005". Getting the hospital's nurse vacancy rate below 7% is one of their goals...lots of luck with that seeing as how with my floor's night shift staff alone our vacancy rate is around 50%---it so sucks to look at the schedule and to be ONE of the TWO nurses scheduled when you know the night will call for 8 or 9 nurses. But, by gosh, didn't that same brochure have a full page of new equipment and upgrades purchased by the hospital in the last year.

I hope the CA nurses <and teachers> show up at ALL of his damn public appearances... and maybe throw an enema bag or two at him.

[NYC]

32. He will hire private nurses 24 hours a day.

You see how little it matters whether nurses can cover the patients or not? He'll never be one of the neglected.

Just like our congressional leaders will never retire on Social Security or use the same health insurance we do.

It makes a huge difference when the people representing us have nothing in common with us. They don't suffer from the deprivations they impose on us.

[Cha]

20. What kind of a fucker..

would "target teachers and nurses"?

[driver8]

23. the kind of fucker that is a big, spoiled baby...

the kind of fucker that is used to everyone kissing his ass and giving him whatever he wants.

The kind of fucker that thinks he is above everyone else and has to answer to no one.

The kind of fucker who I will enjoy voting out of office.

[Cha]

28. I so much want him out, too..

and I'm over here in NY..but arnie is a National embarrassment.

I wanted jebby out, too..lets hope California can get it together for the greater good of the State in 2006.

[earth mom]

34. You said it! And Maria should kick the SOB to the curb! eom

[redqueen]

21. He's truly disgusting.

Amazing that so many are so dazzled by hollywood and celebrity that they'd vote for such a person.

[driver8]

22. I hate that fucking asshole...

I absolutely hate him. He and the shrub must have read the same book regarding "winning friends and influencing people."

Way to go Ahnuld...insult two of the hardest working / lowest paid professions in the state. I cannot wait to vote this asshole out of office.

[against all enemies]

24. Those are mighty strong words. You should be careful -

if you "hate that fucking asshole" you have left yourself without any room to hate someone even more. For instance, Karl Rove, you must hate that little prick more than Arnold but where do you go? "I really hate that fucking asshole" - no zing. Do you have anything better for the biggest assholes.

[shanti]

26. he's a bonafide fucking asshole

no ifs, ands, or buts about it!

[driver8]

30. You bet your ass I do!!

Always plenty to go around for the biggest of the assholes...

[shanti]

25. it's obvious

the assclown has zero respect for women.....fucker. :grr:

[Moderator]

35. kick to combine threads

[Mark E. Smith]

36. Schwarzenegger Remarks On Women Anger Many

AP - Beth Fouhy

Could Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger have another "woman problem" on his hands? Schwarzenegger made headlines in recent months deriding political opponents as "girlie men" and ridiculing a group of nurses at a woman's conference. Now, an effort to paint the state's teachers as little more than a balky special interest group has angered many critics, who have begun to question why constituencies dominated by women have been subjected to such tough talk.

"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 - its vulgar how he's run roughshod over them. He's arrogant, and he's a bully."

(later)

In December a small group of nurses gathered at a state women's conference to protest Shwarzenegger's decision to side with hospitals and delay changes to the state's nurse-to-patient ratio. With Shriver in the audience, Schwarzenegger responded to the protesters by saying, "The special interests don't like me in Sacramento because I am always kicking their butts."

The nurses union denounced his comment, and the attacks on the governor have only escalated since.

"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, president of the Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights. "But Arnold is someone who treats women as objects, so its natural for him to have a tendency to disregard and devalue professions that are made up of women."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_women

Let's face it, if it wasn't for anabolic steroids Arnold would still be in Austria handing out bath towels at spas.

[aquart]

37. Doesn't that mean he has shrunken testicles?

[Mark E. Smith]

38. Well, Maria Does Call Him "Peanut."

[Erika]

39. Maria may know he's a peanut but

her ass should be tossed off democratic roles.

[davepc]

40. once you go off the juice they grow back

[HuckleB]

57. That would explain a lot.

Hey, Arnold!
Are You Man Enough...To Be A Nurse?
http://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/about/ocnnews/rn_poster2002.htm

[WildEyedLiberal]

41. I'm sorry he's your guvnah

My sympathies.

[zann725]

44. I'm thinking of leaving CA just to get away from him. He's frightening

and disgusting. And now these comments to Women professionals?!
Gray Davis was exactly the opposite.

Though I think Arnold and the Repugs might have seriously under-estimated ticking Women and Elderly (AARP) off. Both groups are feistier than the Repugs think, and might kick their butts at the polls and in the media.

To think Arnold has at least two daughters. What it was like growing up in that household, I don't even want to even imagine. Poor Maria...clearly long-since brainwashed by 'Mr. Peanut.'

[evolvenow]

45. Don't leave Zann, we need you!! Besides every lousy comment helps paint

the Real Arnie....for those dazzled by the action hero facade, the truth is pretty gross.

[Matilda]

42. Once a chauvinist pig, always a chauvinist pig.

No surprises there.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

43. only Chimp lovers like Ahnold in CA.- everyone else can't stand him !

regime change soon in CA.--the sooner the better

[evolvenow]

46. Yep, Arnie needs a RECALL!! a TOTAL RECALL!! Bye-Bye Fascism!

[Disturbed]

47. Austrians are talking about taking away his citizenship.

He has dual citizenship. He is Nazi that thinks he can say and get away with anything because he is famous.

[primavera]

53. So why did they vote for him?

My recollection is that California went tidily for Kerry, so plainly shrub fans are a minority, yet, somehow, an admitted serial sexual assaulter sits in the governor's mansion. Sorry, I have no doubt that you personally did not vote for him, but I think California nonetheless has a lot of egg on its face for a bona fide majority of its population having legitimately voted into power a man with no experience apart from beating up and raping women. You guys knew, it was no secret, yet a great many of your fellow Californians looked the other way. I still can't go over what a terrifying message that sent to women nationwide. Why bother reporting a rape if it's only going to get the rapist elected to high-level public office?

[flyarm]

48. hey you voted for the gropenator

we in the rest of the country were screaming.."don't do it"

you bought it now you have to live with it...moblize get rid of the filthy pig@!@

[burn the bush]

49. I used to like Arnold. I guess as an actor, I didn't care if he was a

jerk. But as a politician, it just makes him look like a real loser. I hope his mouth brings him down.

[0rganism]

50. Teachers and nurses? Hmm. I'm dropping Ahnie's point spread to 10

Was at 15, but pissing off the teachers and nurses is not going to sit well with voters. Even Ahnold's core of latent misogynists are going to have second thoughts when it comes to the nurses.

This Tony Quinn guy got it dead on in the article:
---
Political analyst Tony Quinn said the danger for Schwarzenegger lies in the widespread public fondness for teachers and nurses.

"Their strength lies in the fact that people genuinely like their teachers and like nurses, even if they don't necessarily like their union," Quinn said.
---

Not yet enough to tip the balance in itself, but now Herr Gropenator has to work a little bit for it. If he keeps fucking up like this, he could face a real challenge.

[rainbow4321]

54. He wanted to eliminate the state's Board of Nursing

Ok...looks like the CA nurses beat his ass before..maybe they can organize and do it again. The idiot wanted to make California the ONLY state WITHOUT an independent Board of Nursing..merging it with a Consumer Affairs board, something his own "expert panel" did NOT suggest. Per the 2nd article, he had to back down.

http://www.nurseweek.com/news/Features/05-01/BoardOfNursing.asp

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed shifting power away from the California Board of Nursing to the Department of Consumer Affairs, thereby effectively ending its autonomy. Nursing organizations around the state have vowed to fight this plan.

The nine-member independent board interprets and enforces laws related to nursing education, licensure, practice, and discipline. Under Schwarzenegger’s proposal, the state Department of Consumer Affairs would take over decision-making for the board and oversee its staff.

The board is one of 88 independent boards and commissions the governor said in his State of the State speech Jan. 5 that he wants to reorganize. These include licensing organizations that set rules for at least 16 health care fields, as well as for architects, contractors, cosmetologists, and other professions. The BRN and other health care licensing boards were not recommended for elimination by the governor’s expert panel, the California Performance Review.

Nursing organizations, including those representing union members and nurse executives, say they will work together to keep the board independent, which they say protects nurses’ rights and helps keep patients safe. If the governor’s proposal is approved by the Legislature, California will be the only state without a Board of Registered Nursing.

http://www.nursingworld.org/pressrel/2005/pr0218.htm

Gov. Schwarzenegger Pulls Back Proposal to
Eliminate Board of Registered Nursing

The American Nurses Association (ANA) called California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to pull back his proposal to eliminate the Board of Registered Nursing a victory for nurses and patients. The governor withdrew his controversial proposal yesterday.

In January 2005, Gov. Schwarzenegger submitted a reform proposal to the Little Hoover Commission that recommended the elimination of 88 independent regulatory boards and commissions, including the Board of Registered Nursing. Both ANA and its California constituent, ANA/California, submitted expert testimony to the Little Hoover Commission, outlining their strong opposition to the proposal. The Little Hoover Commission is an independent state agency that reviews the operations of state government.


"We are pleased the governor heard our concerns," said ANA President Barbara A. Blakeney, MS, RN. "The Board of Registered Nursing plays a vital role in regulating the practice of nursing and, therefore, protecting patients. We will continue to advocate for the board of nursing's independence and for the critical role it plays in protecting patients."

[HuckleB]

58. Dang. I haven't been paying attention to his shenanigans.

Ugh.


Hey, Arnold!
Are You Man Enough...To Be A Nurse?
http://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/about/ocnnews/rn_poster2002.htm

[AnneD]

63. Wasn't there some really ignorant comment......

about lumping them with automotive technicians or some such nonsense.
For the non nurses, a board of Nurses (BON), checks the credentials of nurses applying for license in a state and also monitor a nursing practice for patient safety (there's that patient advocacy thing again). Unlike doctor's who it seems seldom get their license revoked for poor practice standards, nurse's can get theirs yanked in a New York minute because of questionable practice by a BON. As a result of this high standard, many nurses will leave a setting where the are forced or coerced into an unsafe practice-thus the bases for our current shortage. BON are essential as a self monitoring and public safety tool.
BON do not have the capacity to fine hospitals for bad nursing care standards and JACHO is a joke-hospitals pay for that inspection and do you really thing JACHO would bite the hand that feeds it.
Remember, nurses are like an air traffic controller, without them, health care will crash and burn.
And Aunold...well maybe those hyper-male trapping belie someone that is insecure about his sexuality and relationship with women. If you can't deal with the situation, try to control it. What a knuckle dragging, mouth breathing moran.

[Vidar]

51. Recall worked once. Try again.

[Disturbed]

52. I did not vote for that Nazi- The Gropenfuher.

I voted straight Green Party in the CA election.

[HuckleB]

55. Hey, Girly Man Arnold! Are you man enough...

...To Be A Nurse?
http://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/about/ocnnews/rn_poster2002.htm

[cyclezealot]

59. Today's polls..Arni's ratings are down 10 %..

Imagine if what we could have done if Democrats had been in the attack mode..

[rainbow4321]

60. If you add up....

All the nurses', teachers', and their friends'/family members' votes in CA, Ahnold may be outta there quicker than he could be taught how to correctly pronounce California..maybe he will learn how to before he becomes EX-gov??

[Catchawave]

61. Who will the Dems run against him?

What's the buzz, tell me what's a happening :)

I heard Rob Reiner was thinking about it ?

[cyclezealot]

62. State Treasurer Phil Angelides

seems to be the most vocal..Angelides is planning on running ads soon opposing much of arni's programs..Angelides..Articulate and vocal. If only Democrats in the legislaure begin to go into attack mode arni's easy ride is over...Legislative Democrats have been kissing arni's azz...enough of that ..