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A tough crowd — the toughest — was supposed to be on hand when Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed up unexpectedly Monday to address the annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in San Francisco.

But instead of handing him his head, as expected, most of the A-list crowd of Democrats, community and labor leaders — including many who led bitter opposition to the governor’s special election — gave him a warm and welcoming hand.

…when it was over, Tim Paulson, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, got up on the dais and harangued the governor for “attacking all of us in our community.” Schwarzenegger supported measures last year that would have required union teachers to wait longer to get tenured and also make it more difficult for public employee unions to spend money on political purposes.
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…the cool reception the governor received and the fighting words his presence evoked from fellow speakers showed how hard it will be for Schwarzenegger to win over Democratic constituencies that fought him so bitterly and successfully last year.