Los Angeles Times (4/17): Nurses Union Leader Tonic for Governor's Foes

[Jack Rabbit]

From the Los Angeles Times
Dated Sunday April 17

Nurses Union Leader Is a Tonic for Governor's Foes
Rose Ann DeMoro has led the fight against Schwarzenegger's staffing and pension policies. So far, she appears to be winning.
By Paul Pringle, Times Staff Writer

Oakland — Her name is Rose Ann DeMoro, but in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office she might be better known as Trouble.

DeMoro is the 56-year-old, Missouri-born, Bruce Springsteen-loving executive director of the California Nurses Assn., a 60,000-member labor union that has led the fight against much of Schwarzenegger's policy agenda. In David-vs.-Goliath fashion, the battle appears to be going DeMoro's way.

"He was on a roll, he was unassailable, and people told us we couldn't take him on," said DeMoro, sitting in a fourth-floor conference room at the association's brick headquarters here. Two Schwarzenegger bobble-head dolls, one labeled "Governor Girlie Man," roosted on her desk. "We take extreme credit for his poll numbers dropping like a rock," DeMoro said.

Schwarzenegger's once-soaring approval ratings have indeed plunged, and his sweeping proposals to revamp state government have stalled.

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[BillZBubb]

1. But didn't a couple hundred people show up

at Tom Arnold's "Thank you Arnold" rally? Hopefully Californians are beginning to wake up on that clown.

The turnout was so pathetic that the Gropenator cancelled his speech to the "crowd". Now that is funny.

[Southsideirish]

2. I never understood his appeal, in movies or politics. Big zero.

[Panda1]

3. What a PR blunder for Ahnuld. :)

I love it. Try to take pensions away from nurses, firefighters, police, government employees......who the fuck thought that one would fly? Screw over education...good idea Ahnuld.

Time to kick Terminator boy's ratings even lower.


Just like his daddy: