Governator orders California workers to be paid minimum wage!

It may be a negotiating ploy, but it does make for interesting fodder for the SEIU…

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state workers to be paid minimum wage as the fiscal year started on Thursday without a budget, but in a sign of the paralysis gripping the state — and facing a new governor in November — the state controller refused.

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And, in true SEIU fashion, the purple people eaters responded with a march.

An ocean of purple washed over the west side of the state Capitol today as thousands of SEIU Local 1000 members wearing the union’s signature t-shirts rallied for a new contract and held signs that pushed a new message, “I am California.”

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Guadalupe Gonzalez carried a sign that read, “Hey Arnold, I can’t feed my dog on minimum wage! Why do you want to kill my puppy?”

It just gets more interesting by the day.