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California Nurses Association

May 02, 2010, 05:06 ET

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Queen Meg's royal tour through California will continue this Sunday, May 2 as the Royalist candidate crashes the Republican debate between her alter-ego Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner.


WHAT: Queen Meg to Debate Pretenders Whitman and Poizner
WHEN: Sunday May 2; gather at 4:00 p.m., proceed to debate at 4:45
WHERE: Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 Market St., San Jose, CA

Queen Meg--a character inspired by the efforts of the Whitman for Governor campaign to overwhelm democracy with a bottomless campaign treasury--will travel the state this month with a message made all the more poignant by this debate between two billionaires from corporate America: "California can't afford democracy, so why not try a monarchy?" Her precedent-setting effort to install royalty in a state government will be covered by the new web video series "On the Trail with Queen Meg," which has launched at www.QueenMeg2010.com

Queen Meg first met her subjects just last month, where she was greeted to wild acclaim outside a Beverly Hills fundraiser starring the pretender Whitman, alongside Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Jeb Bush. Her adoring subjects accompanied her to Sacramento to file the initiative formalizing her rule, which reads: "In honor of her $150 million campaign treasury, the people of California do hereby crown Meg Whitman as Queen Meg of California. Her husband Griffith Harsh IV is crowned Prince Griffith of Palo Alto, and the Whitman-Harsh royal motto shall be 'Healthcare for the nobility, Education for the few, Prisons for all.'"

"It's satire with a reality bite," said Malinda Markowitz, RN, co-President of the California Nurses Association. "It's no more shocking to imagine state-based royalty than it is to imagine a billionaire turning a Goldman Sachs career into a run for the Governor's office. Nurses say: don't buy it. No one should be able to bid on California, whether it's a pretend Queen or a billionaire CEO."

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SOURCE California Nurses Association