Protesters To Assemble Outside Schwarzenegger’s Office

As California braces for massive defaults on its obligations to seniors, people with disabilities, students and small businesses, health care workers and community activists plan to gather in front of California Governor Schwarzenegger’s San Francisco office today to demand that he sign a compromise budget package passed in the state Assembly Sunday and the Senate on Monday.

Earlier this month, Governor Schwarzenegger vowed to veto any plan that involved raising taxes, which Republicans say is unconstitutional without a two-thirds vote.

In a statement issued today by the SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West, the union has planned for several events to occur simultaneously today at the Governor’s offices in San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Riverside, Los Angeles and San Diego, with the goal of applying public pressure on Governor Schwarzenegger to support the compromise. The protests are expected to begin around 11:30am today and last through 12:30pm.

If Governor Schwarzenegger vetoes the budget, the state will begin issuing IOUs to seniors, people with disabilities, college students, small businesses and others who are counting on the state to make ends meet.

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