Government Regulations
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 18, 2010In response to a voter complaining regulations are hampering her brother's small business: "That is my number one priority. I want to put a moratorium on all new regulations. Seventeen more days and I'm on it."
Source: Chico Enterprise-RecordTags: Business, Government Regulations , Promise
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 21, 2010While willing to use the initiative process to fight labor unions, Whitman also said rampant use of the initiative in California is problematic. "I do think it needs to be harder to get initiatives on the ballot," she said.
Source: Sacramento BeeTags: Government Regulations , Labor, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 14, 2010On cutting taxes during a recession: But the kind of taxes that I want to cut is not an across-the-board tax cut, because we can’t afford that right now – not with the $20 billion budget deficit. … The only sustainable way to put our state back on track is to get Californians back to work. That’s when more companies pay taxes, that’s when more individuals pay taxes. And also there’s not the drain on the social services. When you have a 12.4 or 12.3 percent unemployment rate, I don’t know if you know we’re running $237 million a week in unemployment benefits alone. I promise you the only way to fix this budget mess is to improve the health of the economy and create jobs. And that is my area of expertise. I know more about the economy and creating jobs than my opponent does, because I’ve been in the private sector for 30 years. I’m not a career politician. I’ve met budgets, I’ve met a payroll, I’ve gotten a return on investments. I know what it’s like to be a small business owner and be on the receiving end of burdensome regulation that makes it so hard to go forward in California.
Source: Good Day LATags: Business, Government Regulations , Jobs, Taxes, Assertion of fact, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 14, 2010On Proposition 25, rolling back the 2/3 majority requirement to pass a budget: I don’t agree with that, because that I believe is the only thing that is holding the line on more fees and a budget that isn’t the right thing for restoring the economic health of California. The number one thing is we have got to put Californians back to work. We have to be the very best place to start and grow a business. So I think what we need is leadership. We need, I believe, a two-year budgeting cycle. We are so short-term focused in this state – no one is thinking two or three years out. So for example, we need to invest in technology so that we can find the fraud in the system. Estimates are in the administration of Medicare and Medical alone is $5 billion worth of fraud. Can you imagine what we could do with $5 billion? But we’ve got to invest in the system, so we can find that.
Source: Good Day LATags: Budget, Business, Government Regulations , Jobs, Policy or issue position, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 14, 2010On creating jobs: First is, I would do targeted tax cuts to get businesses hiring again. So let’s eliminate the factory tax. We penalize manufacturers in California because they have to pay a sales tax on the equipment they buy to manufacture in California. Can you imagine? I mean, it’s the best reason for small manufacturers, and big manufacturers, to go out of state. Then I want to eliminate the start-up tax. When you start a business of any size, the very first thing you have to do before you sell a single product or deliver a single service is pay an $800 LLC fee to the state of California. I want to accelerate depreciation schedules so that people can invest in their businesses. Then I want to streamline regulation. Regulation is killing businesses of all sizes. Everywhere I go I talk to businesses who have – it’s taken instead of six months to get to get their permit, it’s taken 12 months. And so I want to put a moratorium on all new regulations. Let’s sort out what we have, let’s see if we can’t eliminate regulations – the legislature has never met a regulation they didn’t like, and we need to streamline that. And then I want to stand up and compete for jobs – we can’t continue to let the Northrop Grummans of the world leave Long Beach to move to Virginia. We have to set a goal, I believe, of not letting a single job leave for a neighboring state.
Source: Good Day LATags: Government Regulations , Taxes, Assertion of fact, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 9, 2010“Those four AGs, those states, they are either unwilling dupes or conscious allies of not only oil companies from Texas, but oil companies from Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela, all the people who enjoy grabbing our dollars because of our oil addiction,” Brown said.
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Environment, Government Regulations , Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 6, 2010Whitman, who has separately proposed eliminating 40,000 state jobs, insists a statewide grand jury could use existing staff without increasing spending. Her Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jerry Brown, derides that position. This is "a proposal to root out government waste by creating a new government bureaucracy," said Brown's campaign spokesman, Sterling Clifford.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Budget, Government Regulations , Spending, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 6, 2010Whitman spokesman Darrel Ng replied that the persistence of fraud shows that "the current system doesn't work" and that it's time to try something new.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Government Regulations , Spending, Assertion of fact
Jerry Brown
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Aug. 25, 2010Brown also mentioned pension reform, but only as an attack on Whitman, saying that when she quit EBay she paid herself $120 million and that 10 percent of the workforce was laid off. “That's not the kind of pension reform we need,” he said.
Source: Santa Rosa Press DemocratTags: Government Regulations , State workers, Candidate attack
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 22, 2010Last week, however, campaign spokesman Darrel Ng said Whitman might not take either of those actions, even though she still objects to parts of the new law. "Whether she does a new (legal) effort, encourages the new AG (attorney general) to join an effort or not is really irrelevant," Ng said by e-mail. He said a pending lawsuit by Virginia's attorney general "will decide the issue." With the future of that case unknown, he said, "it would be premature to make a decision."
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Government Regulations , Health care, No comment or deflection
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 22, 2010When supporters at a campaign event asked her whether she would "force (her) attorney general" to join the health care suit, she said yes. Questioned by reporters later that day, Whitman acknowledged that a governor couldn't order the independently elected attorney general to sue, but said she would "strongly encourage" a suit.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Government Regulations , Health care, Promise, Specific policy point or details
Jerry Brown
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Aug. 22, 2010Brown's campaign spokesman, Sterling Clifford, said Brown, his staff and the attorneys general in most other states believe the federal law is constitutional. "When you weigh that against the uninformed ramblings of Meg Whitman, I can't imagine that there is much to debate," Clifford said.
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Government Regulations , Health care, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 20, 2010"Do you know who's as excited about this election as we are?" Whitman asked. "The people of New York. They have suffered the financial reforms that are going to crimp our ability to raise capital and they want California to turn the corner."
Source: Sacramento BeeTags: Business, Economy, Government Regulations , Assertion of fact, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 11, 2010Then I want to streamline regulation. You know, I have been to now almost all 58 counties. I have seen all kinds of businesses from agricultural to high-tech to manufacturing to builders. Regulations are strangling us. Regulation upon regulation upon regulation. We have got to streamline this. I want to put a moratorium on all new regs til we get this sorted out.
Source: KTLATags: Government Regulations , Jobs, Specific policy point or details
Jerry Brown
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Aug. 9, 20105. Develop More Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Projects * Combined heat and power projects (also known as cogeneration) use the excess heat or electricity generated by power plants or industrial facilities. They are much more efficient than traditional power plants and many industrial plants. California currently produces 9,249 MW of combined heat and power. With the right incentives, we can increase this by 6,500 MW over the next 20 years.
Source: Jerry Brown campaignTags: Environment, Government Regulations , Policy or issue position
