In Los Angeles and Sacramento, thousands of teachers, nurses and other government employees packed the streets to protest Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts and plans to hold a fall special election. Educators are particularly angry with Schwarzenegger over his proposal to withhold more than $2 billion that local schools say they are owed under voter-approved spending formulas.
See "Thousands Protest Budget Cuts", Evan Halper and Nicholas Shields, Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2005