Schwarzenegger Names His Chief of Staff

[Noordam]

AP News


Schwarzenegger Names His Chief of Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: October 22, 2003


Filed at 6:20 p.m. ET

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger used his first official visit to the state Capitol Wednesday to name a health care executive and former aide to Republican former Gov. Pete Wilson as his new chief of staff.

Patricia Clarey, 50, served as deputy to Wilson chief of staff Bob White in the mid-1990s after stints in Washington under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush. She recently took a leave from her job as vice president of government affairs at Health Net, the state's third largest health maintenance organization, to serve in the Schwarzenegger campaign.

..more at article

Any of you Ca ppl know her?????????????????????

[Cha]

1. Is she in Danger of being "Groped"?

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17016

<snip>"I deliberately use the term "physically assaulted" rather than "groped" (the term that most newspapers used when reporting the incidents) for a reason. "Groped" has a sort of teenage-boy-snicker sound to it, a sort of "yeah, she squealed but she really liked it" feel. "Assault," on the other hand, is the legal term used when someone puts their hands on you without permission (its close cousin, "battery," is used when that assault leads to physical harm)."


"And that's what the 15 women accused Schwarzenegger of doing: Not of being boorish, of breaking the law." <snip>

[donotpassgo]

2. I don't, but if she's attatched to Pete Wilson as well as

Ray-gun, Bush, and an HMO, we in Cali are FUCKED.

[arcane1]

3. never heard of her, but she's been in some creepy places

healthcare, insurance, environment, oil, you name it!

Patricia Clarey
Vice President of Government Relations
Health Net, Inc.
21650 Oxnard Street
Woodland Hills, California 91367
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Patricia Clarey, vice president of government relations at Health Net, Inc., has 25 years of healthcare, natural resources and insurance experience both in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Health Net she was vice president of public affairs at Transamerica Corporation and president of the Transamerica Foundation in San Francisco, California. Before returning to the private sector, Ms. Clarey had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson in Sacramento, California, and as deputy director of the National Park Service and congressional liaison at the United States Department of the Interior, both based in Washington, DC. She also held government relations positions with Chevron Corporation and Ashland Oil, Inc. Ms. Clarey is a former board member of the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy. She received her master's degree in public administration from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a bachelor of science degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York. She was appointed to the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) on the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America in 2003.


http://www.cec.org/who_we_are/jpac/member_bio/index.cfm?varlan=english

[David__77]

4. sounds fairly bland... expected.

No fireworks here... just another corporate minion. I must say that I'm glad it's her and not a partisan ideologue, which I do not believe she is ultimately.

[xchrom]

5. re-pete

oh she's an idealogue alright -- arnold is going to reanimate the wilson admin.
since he has no idea what the fuck he's doing. he's just doing what the repuke corporate fascists tell him.

[twilight]

6. yeah I know allll about Health Net!

They bailed on the retirees. CalPERS did not renew their contract with them because they wanted so damn much money and they ended up saying NO to them. Now they are OUT! You cannot have "Health Net" (or as it is known "HELL NET") anymore.

Another shill for the insurance companies no freakin doubt!

Thanks a lot gangbang! Thanks a hell of a lot and NO I am not sending you no $10,000.00 in January!!!

:grr:

[rocktivity]

9. Wow! I'm a trend-setter!

rocknation

[MGKrebs]

7. Well, just on the surface, she looks like someone

who would meet with BFEE approval.

[twilight]

8. absolutely

Health Net will bid on the health insurance contracts for next year with CalPERS and the Univ. of California. The unions won't go for it because their crap insurance isn't worth it. However, you'd probably be forced into taking it if available. Then Ahnuld repeals the subsidy for Medicare recipients. Oh isn't this a fine damn game we got going already and its going to get A HELL OF A LOT WORSE before it can ever get any better at all.

:kick:

[aeon flux]

10. Arnold's populist/reformist campaign was a farce

how do you shake up government-as-usual by staffing your entire office with a bunch of old guard ideologues whom have zero record of shaking up anything?

Sad thing is CA voters bought the charade, hook, line and sinker. I gotta hand it to him--Arnold is a DAMN GOOD LIAR. He almost had me fooled for a minute.

Bustamante wasn't much of a choice either. For CA voters it was a matter of trying to decide who was the least worst.

[TankLV]

11. ummm - leme guess - "Trojan" somethin,

right?

[aeon flux]

12. Them Repukes are sneaky!

The big movie hero Arnie S. whom we all know and love isn't so harmless and trustworthy after all. I wish Arnold could be impeached for taking advantage of his name and celebrity only to stab the voters in the back. A trojan horse if there ever was one.

[TankLV]

18. Actually, I was thinking more of a certain sheathed protective device...

...for his "staff".

But this works, too!

[aeon flux]

13. This article exposes Arnold S. for the outright fraud that he is

Outsider Arnold is fast becoming a Sacramento Insider

by Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee
Tuesday October 14, 2003 02:30 PM
[e-mail] [phone]

The influence of former California Gov. Pete Wilson (Republican) on Schwarzenegger's team is evident. It is heavy on establishment figures and almost devoid of anyone who has been known to challenge the status quo.

Outsider Arnold's first moves are to the inside
Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee, October 14, 2003

For a man who ran as an outsider vowing to shake up Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger's first moves as governor-elect are making him look like very much the insider.

Two nights after celebrating his election with a promise to end "politics as usual," Schwarzenegger jetted to Sacramento for a cocktail party with lobbyists, legislators and longtime fixers -- including Willie Brown, the former Democrat speaker of the state Assembly.

Brown, who is soon to retire as San Francisco's mayor, also was one of the headliners on Schwarzenegger's 68-person transition committee, which the new governor had announced earlier in the day.

The list won praise for its diversity, and diverse it was, in a sense. It included Republicans and Democrats, a good balance of men and women, and people of all ethnicities and races.

But in another sense the team is not diverse at all. Almost everyone on it is either already part of government, has been part of government or has worked in close proximity to it as a lobbyist or public affairs expert for a trade or professional association. While it also included people from the business community, most of them were also safe choices from Old California, not cutting-edge executives likely to have a fresh take and new ideas.

The team appears to have been put together by aides to Schwarzenegger's political mentor, former Gov. Pete Wilson. It is heavy on establishment figures and almost devoid of anyone who has been known to challenge the status quo. If these are the people on whom Schwarzenegger is depending to recommend the "best and the brightest" for his administration, he risks surrounding himself with the Republican flip side to Gray Davis -- incrementalists who will be cautious to a fault.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/88948.php

[hunter]

14. Thanks for the K-Y jelly, big guy!

Bend over and grab your ankles California. For his first act governor Arnold will be wearing his Slippery Pete Wilson^TM strap-on.

[grasswire]

15. a mole for the BFEE

The Bushes have their mole now.

[Piperay]

16. Surprise, suprise ....NOT!!

I knew that arnie was just keeping the chair warm while the strings were going to be pulled by that bland nothing :boring: REpete Wilson. :argh:

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. Arnold will feel her out

I'm sure he'll be a good verker and will verk hard at it.

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