MCP wrote:
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_women_1
>
> By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
> SAN FRANCISCO - Could Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites)
have
> another "woman problem" on his hands? Schwarzenegger made headlines
in
> recent months by deriding political opponents as "girlie men" and
ridiculing
> a group of nurses at a women'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 - it's vulgar how
he's
> run roughshod over them. He's arrogant, and he's a bully."

"Womens Occupations," men cannot be nurses or teachers?

>
> As a candidate, Schwarzenegger was dogged by allegations that he had
groped
> and humiliated women on movie sets. Since then, he has won over many
> skeptics by appointing women to key staff positions and relying on
his wife,
> journalist and Democrat Maria Shriver, as his closest adviser.
>
>
> But recently, as he has pressed for budget cuts and a broad package
of
> government reform proposals, some of his turbocharged rhetoric has
opened
> him to charges that his views on women are demeaning and macho.
>
>
> In December, a small group of nurses gathered at a state women's
conference
> to protest Schwarzenegger'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."

Go ahead and make healthcare for expensive why don't ya.

>
> 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 Taxpayer and
Consumer
> Rights and a frequent Schwarzenegger critic. "But Arnold is someone
who
> treats women as objects, so it's natural for him to have a tendency
to
> disregard and devalue professions that are made up of women."

$47,858 average RN salary.
(http://jobsearchtech.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wageweb.com%2Fhealth1.htm
This is underpaid? Oh yeah, the are paid hourly. Many professionals are
paid salary and work more hours for less pay.

> The California Teachers Association and the California Nurses
Association
> recently showed a willingness to take on the governor, staging
protests and
> buying ads critical of his policies and proposals.

That is what special interests do. They attack those who do not cater
to them.

>
> Schwarzenegger has denounced teachers for blocking improvements to
education
> and has made merit-based pay for teachers a centerpiece of his
government
> reform plan.
>
>
> The teachers union is running radio commercials statewide criticizing
the
> governor's proposals. Top officials of the organization, as well as
some
> school administrators, also have accused Schwarzenegger of reneging
on a
> promise to deliver $2 billion in revenue to schools.
>
>
> The nurses uinon has taken out full-page newspaper ads suggesting
> Schwarzenegger's corporate campaign donors are the real special
interests.

What a revelation!

>
> Last week, some 300 nurses and their supporters disrupted a movie
premiere
> in Sacramento, booing Schwarzenegger as he posed with actors Vince
Vaughn
> and The Rock.
>
>
> "A mass movement is developing, and it's fascinating to see women
coming
> together," DeMoro of the nurses union said.

I guess there were no men present, or maybe they did not want to whine
about their chosen profession.

>
> Schwarzenegger supporters dismiss the notion that either his rhetoric
or his
> reform efforts are overly harsh toward women or women's professions.
> Instead, they accuse unions of using the controversies to generate
> publicity.

Who would have thought they would do this? (sarcasm)

>
> "To say that women voters perceive Arnold Schwarzenegger as a bully
because
> he's taking on a reform agenda belittles women," said Karen Hanretty,
a
> spokeswoman for the California Republican Party.
>
>
> "This is not about any individual profession. It's about exposing
organized
> labor unions who have used their influence and set policies that have
> created multibillion-dollar deficits both statewide and nationally."
>
>
> Political analyst Tony Quinn said the danger for Schwarzenegger lies
in the
> widespread public fondness for teachers and nurses.

People love horses too, lets cater to them.

>
> "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.

These unions are rediculous.

> Men are everywhere that matters!

Except for nursing and teaching, according to this article.



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