Government services
Jerry Brown
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Nov. 4, 2010"I want to rethink the structure, I want to flatten the administration," he said, adding that he wants to explore "organizing state government to make it leaner, more responsive and more coherent."
Source: San Francisco ChronicleTags: Government services, State legislature, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 15, 2010First of all, we have a government we can no longer afford, and we’ve got to look at everything to reduce the costs.
Source: The Caucus (New York Times)Tags: Budget, Government services, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 23, 2010Whitman's campaign said she is not scapegoating the poor but looking for ways to make the system more efficient. Whitman's campaign noted that the welfare advocates are "partisan" Democrats "who've only supported liberal Democrats and liberal causes." "This proposal will root out fraud, waste and abuse to protect taxpayers and make sure that social programs survive for the struggling Californians who need them the most," said Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for Whitman. "The state has itself uncovered and helped prosecute expensive examples of fraud and abuse, but still independent reports confirm that much more exists."
Source: San Jose Mercury NewsTags: Government services, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 10, 2010Bosch: What happens if job creation goes along slower than you envision? Whitman: Well, this cannot afford to stall. We have to show the people of California that the government can work for them. And that is what I intend to do. We cannot take no for an answer here. We have got to get this done.
Source: KUSI (San Diego)Tags: Government services, State legislature, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 9, 2010Well, first, I would have gone after making the government more efficient and effective. The waste in the government is simply remarkable, and I have identified $15 billion worth of spending cuts that we can go after over a couple of years. First, is we have to shrink the size of government. Second, we have to go after the public employee pensions. You probably know the pension benefits will sink this state. You've had your own issues in San Diego with public employee pension benefits. And it is exactly the same at the state. We have got to renegotiate these pension benefits.
Source: KSWB (Fox 5-San Diego)Tags: Government services, State workers, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 9, 2010HERE ARE THE FACTS: • Brown’s City Manager awards herself $60,000 in bonuses; cashes in $183,000 in vacation, sick pay, and management leave. —San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2008 • Brown’s City Attorney receives big pay increases taking his salary to more than $180,000 a year. —Oakland Tribune, April 8, 2003 • Number of city workers earning more than $200,000 increased by 740 percent from 2003–2006 under Brown. —Inside Bay Area, January 29, 2007 • Number of city workers earning more than $100,000 a year grew by 47.5 percent from 2005–2006. —Inside Bay Area, January 29, 2007 • Brown’s personal confidant and guru, Jacques Barzaghi, was on the city payroll at $126,000 a year. He later cost the city $50,000 because of a sexual harassment lawsuit. —Oakland Tribune, February 26, 2002
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Campaigns and politics, Government services, Leadership style, Spending, Assertion of fact, Candidate attack
Jerry Brown
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Aug. 8, 2010Brown calls for "robust investment" in roads, bridges and other parts of the state's infrastructure, improved job training and increased spending on education but does not discuss where the money would come from at a time when the state is grappling with a $20-billion budget shortfall.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Education, Government services, Jobs, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 3, 2010The poll, which ran from Tuesday, July 27 to Saturday, July 31, asked Californians which issue is most important to them: creating jobs, cutting spending or fixing education. Of the more than 20,000 respondents, 42 percent said creating jobs was their top priority. Since the beginning of her campaign, Whitman has made putting Californians back to work her number one goal. Of the respondents, 26 percent said cutting state spending was their top priority and 32 percent voted for fixing education.
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Education, Government services, Jobs, Assertion of fact
Meg Whitman
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July 20, 2010And we have to remember that we are spending taxpayer money for all these public servants and we need to do it efficiently and effectively. So, it is an incredible statistic - that $800,000 salary. What we need to do is make sure we run the government efficiently and effective, we pay people market rate, and we have more normal pension benefits. You know in California, we are facing a $60 billion to $100 billion unfunded pension and health care liability for public servants because we have increased these pension benefits beyond.
Source: KTTV-FOX (Los Angeles)Tags: Government services, State workers, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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July 20, 2010Host: Why can't the governor put a cap on government pay checks? Meg Whitman: Yes, the city manager (of Bell) is getting paid nearly $800,000 a year. It's remarkable really, and it is a symptom of what is wrong with our government, which is our public employee unions have increased salaries and increased pensions to the point where hardworking Californians are now paying for lavish pension benefits and quite lavish salaries. Now, to be specific, the governor cannot do much about the city manager in Bell, but what the governor can do is set the standards for what is acceptable in public service.
Source: KTTV-FOX (Los Angeles)Tags: Government services, State workers, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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July 16, 2010Kudlow: We're also having your opponent on tonight, but from what I gather he's accusing you of trying to buy the governorship and that you have no experience. Your response? Meg Whitman: Well, I think California voters are really smart. You can't buy elections. What you can do is get out and tell Californians what you stand for and what your specific plan is to fix the state. As you know, I've got a very specific plan, not only around jobs, but cutting government spending, education, crime.
Source: CNBCTags: Crime, Education, Government services, Jobs, Assertion of fact, Policy or issue position
Meg Whitman
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June 11, 2010Well the same priorities are still in place: creating and keeping jobs in California, cutting government spending and fixing our K through 12 education system, but the No. 1 issue on the minds of Californians is jobs. I saw that on the campaign trail every day. I saw people losing their jobs. I saw kids who couldn't get jobs when they graduated from high school or college. So, we decided we'd start with the jobs ad and talk about putting Californians back to work. Because I promise you if we do not put Californians back to work there is no way out of this mess.
Source: KMPH Fox 26Tags: Education, Government services, Jobs
Meg Whitman
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June 10, 2010The general election's on Nov. 2. And we're going to talk about issues that matter most to California, and that is jobs. Jobs and the economy. Everywhere I travel - and I've done over 500 campaign events - people are so worried about their job, and whether their children will have jobs. So the No. 1 issues is creating and keeping good jobs in California. Then, making government more efficient. People forget the government is spending other people's money. It's spending taxpayer money, and we owe it to the taxpayers to spend their money efficiently and effectively. And then, I've set a goal of having the No. 1 public school system in America again. And we have a lot of work because our K through 12 system isn't measuring up.
Source: KNBC (Los Angeles)Tags: Education, Government services, Jobs, Policy or issue position
Jerry Brown
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June 2, 2010"The state is very messed up," Brown said in a June 1 interview. "The issues that we are facing are in some ways eerily similar to ones that I was focused on as governor. My central message then was that we were in an era of limits."
Source: BusinessWeekTags: Government services
Meg Whitman
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June 1, 2010We've got to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget. Require work for welfare. And secure our border, with absolutely no amnesty.
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Budget, Government services, Immigration
