{"id":8939,"date":"2009-05-22T00:35:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T00:35:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-22T00:35:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T00:35:37","slug":"obama-did-her-job-now-he-watches-silent-as-arnold-cuts-her-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/22\/obama-did-her-job-now-he-watches-silent-as-arnold-cuts-her-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Did Her Job, Now He Watches Silent As Arnold Cuts Her Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Commenter seanp mentioned this in my Calitics diary about the Obama Administration waiver<\/a> for the Governor to cut In-Home Support Services salaries for health care workers:<\/p>\n

When Obama was running as a Presidential candidate in 2007 he spent a few hours working with a home health care worker in Alameda, 61 year old Pauline Beck. Remember, this woman had a union contract:<\/p>\n

While Beck’s life – struggling to make ends meet with two jobs and regular visits to the food bank – couldn’t be more different than the 46-year-old Democratic presidential candidate’s, she came away feeling “he just cares about people. … He wanted to know about me, yes, he did. He really wanted to feel what I did.”<\/p>\n

I wonder how Pauline Beck feels about the Obama administration helping cut her wage from $12.10 an hour to $10.10 an hour. I guess she can get a third job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, according to Andy Stern<\/a>, Pauline and IHSS workers like her will get cut back to $8 an hour.  Several bigger bloggers and national groups are picking up on this story today.  As Greg Sargent<\/a> notes, Pauline Beck even spoke at the 2008 DNC.  There’s video<\/a> of the then-candidate’s visit with Pauline Beck.<\/p>\n

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Sargent confirms with SEIU that Beck would be hit by this reduction in wages, just two years after Barack Obama walked a day in her shoes.  The Administration could have used the power of the purse – and the threat of pulling stimulus money away from California – to get the Governor to back off on these wage reductions.  Instead, they acquiesced, and Pauline Beck, Obama’s former work buddy, will pay the price.<\/p>\n

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Brian Beutler<\/a> of TPMDC has more on this, and Andy Stern has sent a message to his supporters asking them to call the Governor and stop the cuts, although the President is implicated in his message as well.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, President Barack Obama walked a day in the shoes of SEIU home care worker Pauline Beck.<\/p>\n

Today, Pauline and home care workers across California face pay cuts of up to 33% — from $12.10 an hour down to $8.<\/p>\n

Governor Schwarzenegger’s belief that solving the state’s fiscal problems on the backs of those who take care of the most fragile among us is an absolute disgrace.<\/p>\n

Please call the Governor’s office and tell him you strongly disagree with his misguided priorities:<\/p>\n

916-445-2841<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Californians sent a clear message of no confidence in Governor Schwarzenegger — soundly rejecting his proposed budget reforms.<\/p>\n

He proposed four ballot initiatives, and all four went down to overwhelming defeats.<\/p>\n

The L.A. Times noted that some are beginning to write his “political obituary.”<\/p>\n

It’s no wonder why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stern intimates that he will “file a challenge” against the Govenror’s decision.  Maybe Schwarzenegger needs to walk a day in the shoes of these home health care workers- oh, wait, that didn’t work either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

Commenter seanp mentioned this in my Calitics diary about the Obama Administration waiver<\/a> for the Governor to cut In-Home Support Services salaries for health care workers:<\/p>\n

When Obama was running as a Presidential candidate in 2007 he spent a few hours working with a home health care worker in Alameda, 61 year old Pauline Beck. Remember, this woman had a union contract:<\/p>\n

While Beck’s life – struggling to make ends meet with two jobs and regular visits to the food bank – couldn’t be more different than the 46-year-old Democratic presidential candidate’s, she came away feeling “he just cares about people. … He wanted to know about me, yes, he did. He really wanted to feel what I did.”<\/p>\n

I wonder how Pauline Beck feels about the Obama administration helping cut her wage from $12.10 an hour to $10.10 an hour. I guess she can get a third job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, according to Andy Stern<\/a>, Pauline and IHSS workers like her will get cut back to $8 an hour.  Several bigger bloggers and national groups are picking up on this story today.  As Greg Sargent<\/a> notes, Pauline Beck even spoke at the 2008 DNC.  There’s video<\/a> of the then-candidate’s visit with Pauline Beck.<\/p>\n

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Sargent confirms with SEIU that Beck would be hit by this reduction in wages, just two years after Barack Obama walked a day in her shoes.  The Administration could have used the power of the purse – and the threat of pulling stimulus money away from California – to get the Governor to back off on these wage reductions.  Instead, they acquiesced, and Pauline Beck, Obama’s former work buddy, will pay the price.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Brian Beutler<\/a> of TPMDC has more on this, and Andy Stern has sent a message to his supporters asking them to call the Governor and stop the cuts, although the President is implicated in his message as well.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, President Barack Obama walked a day in the shoes of SEIU home care worker Pauline Beck.<\/p>\n

Today, Pauline and home care workers across California face pay cuts of up to 33% — from $12.10 an hour down to $8.<\/p>\n

Governor Schwarzenegger’s belief that solving the state’s fiscal problems on the backs of those who take care of the most fragile among us is an absolute disgrace.<\/p>\n

Please call the Governor’s office and tell him you strongly disagree with his misguided priorities:<\/p>\n

916-445-2841<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Californians sent a clear message of no confidence in Governor Schwarzenegger — soundly rejecting his proposed budget reforms.<\/p>\n

He proposed four ballot initiatives, and all four went down to overwhelming defeats.<\/p>\n

The L.A. Times noted that some are beginning to write his “political obituary.”<\/p>\n

It’s no wonder why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stern intimates that he will “file a challenge” against the Govenror’s decision.  Maybe Schwarzenegger needs to walk a day in the shoes of these home health care workers- oh, wait, that didn’t work either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[1001,7307,7314,1795,255],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","tag-1001","tag-7307","tag-7314","tag-1795","tag-255"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2kb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}