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Arnold Remade
How the fear of his own recall transformed him & reshaped California.
An angry Berkeley physician, Kenneth Matsumura, announced in September 2005, that he was launching a recall of California's celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The story was covered by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It generated global media interest. Thousands volunteered to gather recall signatures. The street anger was generated by the governor's repeat vetoes of the raise in the minimum wage, his taking money from the schools and shutting down art and music classes, and his failing to maintain state infrastructure like the levees whose collapse would cut off the flow of fresh water to Southern California. Schwarzenegger was also denigrated for breaking a promise to protect the environment, and for attacking widow's pension of firefighters and police officers killed helping the public.
What transpired over the following six months is remarkable and historic. Schwarzenegger made the passage of the raise in the minimum wage his lead message to the State of the State speech in January 2006. He agreed to return monies to the schools, proposed a 37 billion dollars bond issue to the California's infrastructure, and made California the first state in the union to join the fight against global warming. He acceded to virtually all the demands of the recallers.
In an easy, conversational style, Kenneth Matsumura tells the story about this amazing turn of events that not only transformed the image of the celebrity governor but also how these events changed California.
Kenneth Matsumura is a physician-scientist in Berkeley, California. For over three decades, by choice, he has doctored the poor in San Francisco East Bay. He is also the Chairman of ALIN foundation, one of the oldest biotech concerns in the world, with many breakthrough medical developments. Time magazine named his bio-artificial liver “Invention of the Year' in 2001.
A biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger by KENNETH MATSUMURA, MD.
How the fear of his own recall transformed him & reshaped California.
An angry Berkeley physician, Kenneth Matsumura, announced in September 2005, that he was launching a recall of California's celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The story was covered by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It generated global media interest. Thousands volunteered to gather recall signatures. The street anger was generated by the governor's repeat vetoes of the raise in the minimum wage, his taking money from the schools and shutting down art and music classes, and his failing to maintain state infrastructure like the levees whose collapse would cut off the flow of fresh water to Southern California. Schwarzenegger was also denigrated for breaking a promise to protect the environment, and for attacking widow's pension of firefighters and police officers killed helping the public.
What transpired over the following six months is remarkable and historic. Schwarzenegger made the passage of the raise in the minimum wage his lead message to the State of the State speech in January 2006. He agreed to return monies to the schools, proposed a 37 billion dollars bond issue to the California's infrastructure, and made California the first state in the union to join the fight against global warming. He acceded to virtually all the demands of the recallers.
In an easy, conversational style, Kenneth Matsumura tells the story about this amazing turn of events that not only transformed the image of the celebrity governor but also how these events changed California.
Kenneth Matsumura is a physician-scientist in Berkeley, California. For over three decades, by choice, he has doctored the poor in San Francisco East Bay. He is also the Chairman of ALIN foundation, one of the oldest biotech concerns in the world, with many breakthrough medical developments. Time magazine named his bio-artificial liver “Invention of the Year' in 2001.
A biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger by KENNETH MATSUMURA, MD.