Posted on 09/09/2006 6:37:31 AM PDT by FairOpinion
San Jose mayoral candidate Cindy Chavez and gubernatorial contender Phil Angelides -- both labor-friendly Democrats and underdogs in their campaigns for office -- promised a gathering of union leaders in downtown San Jose on Friday that they would champion policies to help working-class families if they win in November.
``It matters who gets elected,'' Chavez, San Jose's vice mayor, told 2,000 rank-and-file leaders of the United Healthcare Workers union meeting for their annual conference at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
Angelides' speech won loud applause from the health care union members, many of whom surrounded the state treasurer afterward to shake hands and snap pictures.
United Healthcare Workers is part of the Service Employees International Union, which has 615,000 members in California. The union said it will work to enact a universal health care plan in California by 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Arnold just vetoed the universal healthcare, AKA socialized medicine bill, which would have prohibited private insurance and only allowed government run "healthcare", if you could call it that.
Angelides is supporting the introduction of socialized medicine -- see above.
So, let's see: Arnold as governor vetoes such bill, Angelides will sign it, in fact he even promotes it.
If this is not a major difference between Arnold and Angelides, I don't know what is.
Not to mention that "pushing for working class" is clearly a euphomism for socialism. Marx and Lenin were "pushing for the working class".
when i first glanced at the headline i thought they were talking about hugo chavez
Another related article:
Frustrated With Schwarzenegger's Veto Announcement of Universal Health Care? Play the Online 'Shooter' Video Game
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72044
To: National Desk, State Desk
Contact: Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, 310-392-0522 ext. 319
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A consumer group has given Californians a new way to work out their frustrations with high health care costs and the inability of Governor Schwarzenegger and the California legislature to find a solution: play an online video game and fight mobster- styled insurance company reps trying to kill a patient in a hospital bed. A player who exterminates all the insurers wins universal health care.
On Tuesday, Schwarzenegger announced he would veto universal health care legislation, SB 840, by state Senator Sheila Kuehl (D, Santa Monica). Read FTCR's analysis of Schwarzenegger's veto announcement at: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/pr/?postId=6794
The shooter game, "Nurse Avenger," is available at: www.CalHealthPlan.org. On the website players can sign up to help fight for universal health care - called the California Health Plan. Special weapons include: Waste Whacker (HMOs & health insurers waste 25 percent of our money on overhead and profit), Salary Sucker, Voice Mail Avenger, and a Purchasing Power Mega Weapon. To unleash a special attack, players click on a "Nurse Avenger" icon when it appears on the screen. If the player defeats all the HMO bosses, she "saves" the state $8 billion – the predicted annual savings to the state of universal health care.
"Whether or not Schwarzenegger signs the bill, the game is the same," said Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. "Employers and patients can work out their frustration with big health care bills by zapping insurance reps online. All fun and games aside, we hope that they'll also sign up for the real fight for universal health care reform."
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The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is California's leading nonpartisan consumer watchdog organization. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org
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"The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is California's leading nonpartisan consumer watchdog organization. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org"
An organization pushing socialism, pretending to a "consumer watchdog" organization. Another example of socialists hiding behind misleading cover names.
I am sure Hugo Chavez is in total agreeement. He may introduce socialized medicine to Venezuela, if he will stay president long enough.
The irony is the claim these are polices for the working class, when "liberalism" and socialism destroys the working class, just see what it has done to the inter cities of America.
Partisan considerations aside, the argument is spurious. Neither Angelides nor Schwarzenegger can implement UHC without the consent of the legislative minority.
Of the two, Schwarzenegger is more likely to fund liberal policies like UHC because he enjoys the financial hammer of the CAGOP.
Angelides can sign all the liberal work product of the California legislature which his heart desires but the approval is hollow because he can't secure funding for its implementation.
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