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CNA’s ‘Queen Meg’ Draws National Attention
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The California Nurses Association’s (CNA‘s) satirical imperial “Queen Meg,” a parody of free-spending billionaire Meg Whitman and her bid to buy California’s governorship, caught the attention of Time.com today.
According to the lead feature on the site’s Politics section, “the former eBay CEO is willing to spend a mind-boggling $150 million of her own money” to move into the governor’s mansion in Sacramento. Of course that’s likely a step or two down from her palatial Silicon Valley digs.
Whitman, says Time, “promises she will cut the state government payroll by 40,000 jobs.” She also pledges to dramatically reduce public employee pensions, deregulate industry and cut the social safety net. She has painted the state’s public employee unions as the villains in California financial trouble. As Time goes on to note:
The unions, of course, have taken notice of Whitman’s attack and are fighting back. Led by the feisty California Nurses Association, they are challenging Whitman on the campaign trail and backing the candidacy of Democrat Jerry Brown. And so in one corner, the nurses engage in street theater that entertains and provokes as they take on Whitman.
In satire meant to resonate with people suffering in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the nurses’ union has shadowed Whitman at campaign events with an actress dressed as “Queen Meg.”
CNA Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro told Time the Queen Meg parody campaign, complete with a bus and supporting actors, mocks Whitman’s assumption that
her vast personal wealth of $1.3 billion and record spending in the Republican primary entitles her to be anointed governor and carry out her corporate agenda of eroding public and workplace protections, slashing safety-net programs and muffling the voice of working people and their unions.
Click here to read the full article. Click here to join Queen Meg’s Facebook page and here for Queen Meg videos. Be sure and visit the California Labor Federation’s Wall Street Whitman website for more information.
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Whitman is EVIL, a product of Goldman Saks, she is a billionaire that has not voted in about 24 years. She uses the same campaign tactics as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his run for the office, and no wonder, they both are supported and guided by Pete Wilson. She touts her management experience as CEO of E-Bay, (to me that’s not a good recommendation anyway) but in her final years as CEO of E-Bay the stock dropped 54% (while similar tech stocks rose almost 5%). There are many stories printed of her maniacal screaming rages at E-Bay some where they had to pay some serious personal injury claims.
She continues to buy false attack ads paid for with her own millions.
I could go on for pages, but I wont
Meg Whitman is an out of work CEO that wants to buy a new hobby, she wants to play, with California as her new play toy!
The scary thing about it is there is a possibility she can win. People now a days tend to believe anything said on TV.
Meg Whitman is another Corporatist trying to give California Millionaires more tax breaks and less accountability. The same Party of NO policies that for the past 20 plus years have got us in the bad situation we are in today!
Next Topic? Carly Fiorina! send 14,000 HP Jobs to China and India and now talks about creating jobs as a US Senator… yea right… perhaps she has some prime swampland to sell in Florida also…
Your Lowness: Two words: Marie Antionette:
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I didn’t quite follow this to begin with. But when I read it a third time, it all added up in my mind. Thanks for the insight. Definitely something to think about. Thanks for sharing…