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Governator Picks Geena Davis for Women’s Rights Panel

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Posted on Jul 21, 2010
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Actress Geena Davis listens to speakers during a February news conference for a women’s empowerment event at the U.N.

She played a politician on TV, and now Geena Davis, who did a short stint as America’s first female president on “Commander in Chief,” is California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointee for the Golden State’s Commission on the Status of Women. If confirmed by the state Senate, Davis will take the position for four years at the decidedly non-Hollywood rate of $100 per day.  —KA

ABC News:

Davis, who has starred in films such as “Tootsie,” “The Accidental Tourist” and “Thelma and Louise,” is the founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media.

She set the group up after watching G-rated films and shows with her young daughter with the aim of reducing gender stereotyping in film and television and increasing the percentages of female characters.

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By Inherit The Wind, July 31, 2010 at 5:06 am Link to this comment

Ofer,

I’m sure there are parts of the US where one can manage on $25,000, but only manage.  However, in California or NJ it’s a pittance.  I made more per month on unemployment when I lost my job in 2009.

So Geena Davis is being paid at rate equivalent to the higher end (but not the upper limit) of unemployment insurance….and you have a problem with that?

As I said, for a millionaire actress it’s a pittance.

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By ofersince72, July 27, 2010 at 2:51 pm Link to this comment

Inherit_The_Wind you just wouldn’t believe what
one can do with $25, 000 a year in the right environment.
I this depressed area in which I live, that is considered
pretty good money.

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By Inherit The Wind, July 27, 2010 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment

$100/day is $25,000/year—not much of a salary in ANY industry.  For Geena Davis, it’s not much different than FDR’s dollar per year men.

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By ofersince72, July 26, 2010 at 11:52 pm Link to this comment

I believe somebody already mentioned this but,
wouldn’t that $100 a day salery be better served for
someone that really needed a job.

  No wonder California’s budget is in the toilet.
I hope she donates this money to a soup kitchen.

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By TheHandyman, July 26, 2010 at 6:40 pm Link to this comment

So the State is coming apart at the seams and the Governator appoints a rich person to a post that could have been held by practically any fairly well educated woman and it would have helped with unemployment. Instead he appoints another celebrity or crony to some meaningless commission that drains the coffers of education, fire, police, or any other needed service.

Sorry Arnold, Governor is a role you never played, just like Ronnie Raygun. You suck just as much as he did. Why are Californians obsessed with B actors as politicians? Don’t they know that he was only playing the part of a robot from the future, he wasn’t really one?

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By MarthaA, July 25, 2010 at 10:01 pm Link to this comment

The Republicans made it work for Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, so Arnold is following the Republicans rules—theatrics works—— it hasn’t been necessary to be qualified, just act confident, as merit isn’t necessary—just do as you’re told and all will be well for the aristocracy, but the populace is a whole different story and the populace is getting restless and becoming aware of the Republicans Conservative Plan for populace slavery in their pursuit of happiness minus freedom and justice for all.

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By Inherit The Wind, July 24, 2010 at 3:46 am Link to this comment

Hey, I’ve liked Geena Davis since she was on TV in “Buffalo Bill” with Dabney Coleman.  They forgot she was in “Beetlejuice” (with an unrecognizably skinny Alec Baldwin), “Fletch” and the re-make of “The Fly”.  She only had a bit part in “Tootsie”.

Curiously, much as I’ve enjoyed most of her movies, I HATED the one she got the Oscar for, “The Accidental Tourist”.  I hated everything about that movie.

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By rollzone, July 22, 2010 at 1:30 pm Link to this comment

hello. why don’t chew listen to heam? she was de original pretty woman, she has experience in woman things. she is a woman. she has always been a woman. she is the best looking candidate for the position. she will do good things for this commission of computing what other less attractive, less fortunate, regular women are capable of doing to empower themselves of other peoples’ monies, or whatever they calculate. she is good to look at. trust him. paying her $2,000/month is all the calculations they need.

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By Commune115, July 21, 2010 at 4:58 pm Link to this comment

Arnold The Clown’s latest proof of how retarded he remains.

This state is falling apart, almost literally. Californians have themselves to blame though, they don’t lift a finger to stop this madness.

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