Dean rallying today with CA healthworkers on strike...I say kudos to him.

[madfloridian]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051028/sffv001.html?.v=12

Governor Howard Dean To Rally With Caregivers on 46th Day of Strike at California Pacific Medical Center
Friday October 28, 10:00 am ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Former Presidential Candidate, will rally with caregivers on strike at California Pacific Medical Center. Dean's visit comes nearly seven weeks after 800 caregivers were forced to strike for a Federal Mediator's compromise proposal for settlement that features safe staffing guidelines and an employee education fund.

"I am honored to have been invited to attend a rally with the courageous striking employees of the Sutter California Pacific Medical Center," said Governor Dean. "As a physician, I know all too well the importance in patient care of having qualified staff in sufficient numbers. That's what these caregivers are standing up for. They're standing up for a voice in the workplace that will help create the conditions necessary to protect patients and improve the quality of patient care. I look forward to meeting with them and supporting them in this important struggle."

A :toast: to the doctor for this support of workers.

[Larkspur]

1. Dean is supporting healthcare workers and the first set of indictments

is hitting the White House.

What a day!!!

[madfloridian]

7. And while in LA he speaks out...Bush's policy based on lies.

He also reminds everyone that Fitzgerald is a Republican. Good work, Dr. Dean.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4044240&nav=23ii

DNC chair Howard Dean says Libby indictment stems from lies about Iraq policy

LOS ANGELES Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says the indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff is a result of administration efforts to silence critics of its Iraq policy.

Dean, in Los Angeles, said: "This whole thing came about because the president wasn't truthful about why we went to Iraq and what's happened since."

Dean says the president is struggling because -- in his words -- "If your policy's based on lies, the American people aren't going to respect you."

Dean says special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who secured the indictment, is a tough Republican who "doesn't let anything get in the way of his investigations."

[central scrutinizer]

2. this should be a model

More Democratic candidates need to get out and help on the picket lines.

[acmejack]

3. Indeed, these are troubled times for the worker

I think it is very appropriate. Next repeal all the so called right to work laws.

[Demobrat]

4. OMG that's my medical center. They've been striking for weeks!

And it's at 5 - so I can run over there! Thanks Thanks Thanks MF!

[madfloridian]

5. You are welcome...I am proud of him for this.

:hi:

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Yay Dean!!

[Cha]

8. Mad, I don't know how

Dean thought Patrick Fitzgerald was a republican because the following is what I've learned about Fitzgerald..


snip~
"Known for convicting Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and for compiling the first criminal indictment against Osama bin Laden, Fitzgerald is an Irish doorman's son who attended a Jesuit high school, then Amherst College -- where he was a Phi Beta Kappa mathematics and economics major -- and Harvard.

He registered to vote in New York as an independent. When he discovered that Independent was a political party, he re-registered with no affiliation. Illinois citizens know him for pursuing Republicans and Democrats with equal fervor. Former governor George Ryan (R) is on trial on corruption charges, and a growing number of aides to Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) face influence-peddling charges."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301028.html

[madfloridian]

9. I don't either.

:hi:

[Cha]

11. High Five to you,

too! :hi:

[madfloridian]

10. Spoke from the back of a truck....good for him...Kos diary

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/28/204822/47

Anyway, Dr. Dean got up in the back of a truck and spoke for about 10 minutes to the gathered crowd of 100. Some highlights:

"On the Nov. 8th special election: "Vote 'no' on all of 'em. I know there are a few propositions there that are good, but it will send a message to the Governor in Sacramento and President Bush in Washington if everything goes down together. Don't worry, we'll put in the good stuff later. Just vote 'no' on everything."

"I know from my experience as a doctor -- although I haven't practiced in a long time -- that it's the quality of the nurses that gets things done."

"We can reverse the downward trend of organized labor in this country. It was our core in the '30s and '40s when we were running things."

"We need to rebuild the Democratic party from the ground up. We can't be 'Republican Lite.' It just doesn't work." Cheers ensue.