Economy
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 27, 2010Well, you're right, our state is in big trouble. But we can turn it around. And here's how we're going to do it. We're going to focus on doing a small number of things well. You know, when your house is on fire, you don't worry about the termites in the basement. You fix the things that need to be fixed first and foremost. And we've got to fix the business climate in California. We've got to make it easier for new jobs to be created. So we're going to cut taxes, we're going to streamline regulation and bust the bureaucracy that is strangling businesses. And then we're going to have an economic development team that's going to hang onto jobs here in California. So that will increase the revenue side of the equation. I mean, if we don't put Californians back to work, there is actually no way out of this fiscal mess. And then on the cost side of the equation, we have got to run the government more efficiently and effectively. I've talked about downsizing the government. I've talked about using technology to do more with less. And then perhaps our biggest problem is the public employee pension problem, which is not dissimilar from other states. We have given away lavish pension benefits to the public employee unions. We have to renegotiate those or we're going to run out of money in California. So it's getting Californians back to work and making sure that we have a government we can afford, which we don't right now.
Source: Fox NewsTags: Economy, Spending, State workers, Taxes, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 22, 2010Whitman, 54, continued to make the case Thursday that she was the best candidate for California's youth. "I've talked to a lot of kids who've graduated from college," she told reporters after touring a factory in Los Angeles. "They're moving in with their parents. They're taking unpaid internships. There's no jobs available." She continued: "So the No. 1 issue for [young voters] is jobs. I would just ask them, 'Who is better to create jobs, to fix this economy so that you have opportunity for your children, your cohort of friends?' It's me."
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Economy, Jobs, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 14, 2010"The Central Valley is a very important part of California. Agriculture and oil production are the backbone of this economy," Whitman said."The big issues here are unemployment, like every other part of California ... and water of course is absolutely essential."
Source: KGET-17 (NBC - Bakersfield)Tags: Business, Economy, Jobs, Water, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 13, 2010"Well, the reason that you would put a moratorium on for a year is to say, gee, will employment decrease, but, more importantly, is there a way to fix AB32 in such a way that it would be good for green jobs, we can still have national leadership on the environment but also not hurt the other 97% of the economy?" she asked.
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Economy, Environment, Jobs, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 26, 2010Brown said he "would be very slow to increase burdens on the least powerful and the least affluent people of this state." "You don't want to crush any further those who have been immiserated by globalization of the economy and the upward movement of purchasing power," Brown said.
Source: Sacramento BeeTags: Economy, Taxes, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 24, 2010During her time on the air, Whitman praised Fresno and said she didn't "want anybody to misinterpret my comments." Her point, she said, is Fresno has been hit by the recession and she does not want it to be "left behind as it has been in the past." "Fresno is a great town," she said. "I love the Central Valley."
Source: Fresno BeeTags: Campaigns and politics, Economy, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 24, 2010"What I was trying to communicate was Fresno, the Central Valley, has been very hard hit. As hard hit as places like Detroit. So that's what I was trying to communicate," she said. "Listen, I want people to really understand that what is so heartbreaking is the high unemployment rate in Fresno. Fresno is a great town, I love the Central Valley."
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Economy, Quotable
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 23, 2010"She is right now sitting on both sides of the fence,'' he told reporters. When informed Whitman had just minutes earlier announced her opposition, Brown said that her position to "start and stop" policies that would encourage green technology would only hurt the state's economy.
Source: Politics Blog (San Francisco Chronicle)Tags: Economy, Environment, Candidate attack, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 23, 2010What I was trying to communicate was Fresno, the Central Valley, has been very hard hit, as hard hit as places like Detroit. So that’s what I was trying to communicate. … Because right now as hard as it is to believe, Fresno County has a higher unemployment rate than metro Detroit.
Source: KFSN-TV (ABC Fresno)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Economy, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 22, 2010Commenting on the economic state of California's fifth largest city, which has been hard hit by the state's water crisis: "Fresno looks like Detroit. It's awful.''
Source: San Jose Mercury NewsTags: Economy, Water, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 22, 2010Sterling Clifford, spokesman for Jerry Brown, Whitman's Democratic opponent in the coming November gubernatorial election, called it "classic Meg Whitman -- saying one thing to Fresno and something else entirely about Fresno. "Maybe from inside her billionaire-bubble Fresno and Detroit look the same," Clifford added, "but Jerry Brown knows better."
Source: Fresno BeeTags: Campaigns and politics, Economy, Candidate attack, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 22, 2010"It was clear in the interview that Meg was talking about the economic duress in Fresno and the awful pain that results from record high unemployment," Whitman spokesman Andrea Jones Rivera said in an e-mail. "Meg knows that Fresno cannot be left behind as it has been in the past when the economic situation around the state gets better but Fresno doesn't respond as quickly."
Source: Fresno BeeTags: Economy, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 22, 2010"I think we live in very unsettled times," she said, adding that this economy is the worst since the Great Depression. "I see it on the campaign trail every day." In the Imperial County town of El Centro, she said, unemployment is 35%. Then Whitman asked the newspaper's editorial board whether they had been to the Central Valley lately, adding, "Fresno looks like Detroit. It's awful." Rivera, the campaign spokeswoman, maintained that in the proper context, "It was clear in the interview that Meg was talking about the economic duress in Fresno and the awful pain that results from record high unemployment."
Source: Fresno BeeTags: Campaigns and politics, Economy, Quotable
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 21, 2010Our state has a huge deficit. Meg Whitman’s plan will make it billions worse by eliminating the capital gains tax for wealthy investors including herself. Economists say her plan will rip a hole in the budget and is deeply flawed. Analysts for the LA Times say Whitman’s plan is a pure handout to the rich, creating a huge risk to schools and public safety. Jerry Brown is against this unfair giveaway, because it will take billions from our children when we can least afford it. Get California working again – for all of us.
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Crime, Economy, Education, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 20, 2010"I care a lot about the environment of California, as do all Californians, but I also think it's very important to have a balance between the needs of the environment and the needs of jobs and people," Whitman said. "We have to balance the needs of both. What is absolutely essential to hold onto green jobs and what is essential for the other 97 percent of the economy." She also pointed out that a moratorium is built into AB 32, where a governor can lift the regulations "in times of economic distress. I'd say this is a time of economic distress."
Source: Contra Costa TimesTags: Economy, Environment, Policy or issue position
