The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR)

Hundreds of the nurses, teachers, students and firefighters

will gather outside Gov.'s fundraiser at Century Plaza Hotel to protest Governor Schwarzenegger's cash-register politics

WHEN: 5 pm, Wednesday, March 16th

WHERE: Westin Century Plaza Hotel

2025 Avenue of the Stars

between Olympic Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd.

WHAT: Beginning at 5:00, Governor Schwarzenegger will hold an $89,200 per plate fundraiser inside the hotel.

WHO: Hundreds of the nurses, teachers, students and

firefighters will protest the governor who has has mislabeled them a 'special interests' as an excuse to repeal patient safety rules,cut education budgets, increase tuition fees, and give billions of dollars in pension funds over to Wall Street financers.

WHY: As a candidate, Schwarzenegger told voters: ''I will go to Sacramento and I will clean house. I don't have to take money from anybody. I have plenty of money;'' and, ''Any of those kinds of real big, powerful special interests, if you take money from them, you owe them something.''

Since he announced his candidacy, Schwarzenegger has raised $40 million from big industry that's about $80,000 each day twice as much as Governor Gray Davis, who he replaced for being a cash register politician.

FTCR has launched an Internet petition campaign: ''Governor, Please Stop the Fundraising,'' in response to Schwarzenegger's recent remarks stating that the public does not care that he has broken campaign promises to clean-up

politics as usual. The online petition is available at

http://www.arnoldwatch.net/fundraisingpetition/

To watch footage of a recent protest of the governor at the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party, go to: http://arnoldwatch.org/blogs/blogs_000626.php3

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