Tuesday November 1st
Santa Barbara, Santa Maria
Santa Barbara:
What: RN RV and mobile billboard- local RNs available for interviews
Place: University California Santa Barbara Student Health Center
El Colegio and Ocean (across from the Thunder Dome)
Time: Noon-1:00 pm
Marian
What: Nurses and Teachers Get Out the Vote Phone Bank
Place: Ca. Teachers Assoc. Office
2325 Skyway Drive, Suite A, Santa Maria, CA 93455
Time: 5:00 pm-8:00 pm
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Wednesday November 2nd
San Luis Obispo area Hospitals
What: RN RV and mobile billboard- local RNs available for interviews
Place: Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center (by Emergency Room entrance)
1010 Murray Street, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93405
Time 7:00 am-8:00 am
Place: French Hospital Medical Center
1911 Johnson Street, San Luis Obispo CA 93401
Time: 10:00 am-11:00 am
Place: Twin Cities Community Hospital
1100 Las Tablas Road, Templeton, CA 93465
Time: Noon-1:00 pm
Hundreds of boisterous protesters upset by Gov. Schwarzenegger's ballot initiatives targeting teachers' tenure, unions and school funding demonstrated outside the Mission Inn on Wednesday as the governor hobnobbed inside with donors who paid $2,500 or more to attend the private dinner.
A crowd of more than 400 teachers, firefighters, nurses, San Bernardino County sheriff's employees and other union workers swarmed Orange Street and Mission Inn Avenue, chanting "Recall Arnold" and "Shame on you" as donors arrived at the landmark hotel.
"This is a direct attack on public employees," said Craig Adams, a longtime teacher and president of the Alvord Educators Association. "It has nothing to do with reforming education or balancing the budget, although the governor would love to balance the budget on the backs of teachers and students."
Inside, Schwarzenegger met with donors for photos, cocktails and dinner during the fundraiser. Contributors paid as much as $25,000 for two tickets to the private reception and dinner at the head table, including a photo with the governor. A $5,000 contribution bought two tickets to the dinner. (read more)
"No in November" RN-RV Road Tour Update
STOCKTON--Government workers gathered at a billionaire’s home to protest an appearance by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his proposals for next month’s special election. Schwarzenegger is pushing several propositions that will go before voters Nov. 8, including provisions to make teachers work five years before earning tenure (Proposition 74), to require unions to get permission from members before using their dues for political purposes (Proposition 75), to set a state spending cap and give the governor more control over the budget (Proposition 76).
Deloris Foster was one of the hundreds of protesters outside the home of Alex Spanos, a real estate mogul who hosted a fundraiser for the governor Tuesday night. A teacher for 22 years at the Stockton Unified School District, Foster decried the measures Schwarzenegger supports. "This is totally unfair to us trying to make a living," she said.(read more)
"No in November" RN-RV Road Tour Update
STOCKTON -- Hundreds of protesters blew whistles, waved signs and chanted slogans declaring their opposition to ballot initiatives backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was the guest of honor at a Stockton fund-raising dinner hosted by Alex Spanos.
Nurses, teachers and other public employees made up the bulk of the roughly 400 people who lined the sidewalk along the intersection of West Lincoln Road and Pershing Avenue. The protest was organized to coincide with a $10,000- to $25,000-a-plate dinner being held in the Lincoln Road home of Spanos, an influential local developer and owner of the San Diego Chargers.
"It's really obvious where Schwarzenegger is getting his money," said Gary Price, a fifth-grade teacher in the Lodi Unified School District. "Hello? ... He's going to his money base." Price noted the school where he teaches, Julia Morgan Elementary School, is on A.G. Spanos Boulevard, a street named after the event's host. (read more)
"No in November" RN RV Road Tour Update
Sutter Roseville Hospital nurse Laurie Cord protests against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot initiatives Tuesday at the governor's appearance in Roseville. Cord, on a tour of state hospitals with the California Nurses Association, said the proposition could hurt public employee unions, schools.
The California Nurses Association, a union representing 58,000 RNs in the state, made a stop at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital Tuesday to inform nurses of measures they say will stifle workers' voices. "This hits everybody in California, every working person," said Laurie Cord, a Sutter Roseville Hospital bedside nurse and former Sutter Auburn nurse.
One of the ballot measures is Proposition 75, which would seek written consent from all public employee union members to give a portion of union dues to a political cause. Cynthia Oliveira, a surgical nurse at Sutter Auburn, collected "Stop Arnold" signs and literature Tuesday from the California Nurses Association's "RN RV," a recreational vehicle touring California hospitals. (read more)