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Meg Whitman
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Oct. 18, 2010"I am a big supporter of higher education," she said. "As troubled as K-12 is in California, UC and CSU are still the gems of this state. In fact, we still have the very best higher education system in the country ... I want to put a billion dollars back into higher ed. "And then I want to say to the chancellors and the heads of the universities, 'How can you best use that billion dollars, for faculty, for research, lower fees?' because it breaks my heart to see what has happened to fees at all of these CSU and UC system schools."
Source: Chico Enterprise-RecordTags: Education, Policy or issue position, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 13, 2010She said, as she had during Tuesday’s third and final debate with Democratic nominee Jerry Brown, that she was open to a "fix" on the state’s global warming law, known as AB32. ... "So I want to freeze the law, the implementation of the law, and fix it," Whitman said. "And here’s what I want to do: Can we change the implementation schedule? Can we change some of the way that we’re going to implement this law so it doesn’t hurt businesses so immediately, like trucking or packaging or manufacturing? But I believe that there is a way to protect the 3% of the jobs that are green jobs while we don’t hurt the other 97% of the economy."
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Business, Environment, Policy or issue position, Specific policy point or details
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 28, 2010I do support a path to legalization as part of a federal comprehensive reform bill ... secure the borders, get a real verifiable electronic ID system, make people compensate for any violations of the law. But at the end of the day, we have a couple million people in the shadows ... we've got to find a way, we can't round them up and deport them like they did in Eastern Europe. We have to find a path to citizenship.
Source: UC Davis DebateTags: Immigration, Policy or issue position, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 28, 2010So I wouldn't support a path to legalization. We have got to get our arms around what is a very, very pressing problem. First, we have to secure the borders of the United States of America. ... Second, we do have to hold employers accountable for hiring only documented workers. ... Third, we have got to eliminate sanctuary cities. The worst case is of course San Francisco. But I want to couple that with guest worker programs ... So that's where I stand. We have got to prove to Americans and to Californians that we can solve this immigration problem.
Source: UC Davis DebateTags: Immigration, Policy or issue position, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 28, 2010On UC/CSU tuition hikes: It breaks my heart. Everyday I talk to children who are at UC who have had to take a semester off … So here’s my plan for the UC and CSU system … I want to reduce costs of this government and take a billion dollars and put it back in the UC system. … We have got to run the government more efficiently.
Source: UC Davis DebateTags: Education, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 26, 2010Like the CEO she was, Whitman offered a stark analysis when she explained again her goal of cutting California's state work force by 40,000, using "attrition as well as some selected layoffs" over perhaps three years. ... "Having been in business for 30 years, it is amazing to me that there has been that much push-back against getting to a work force the size of where we were five years ago," Whitman said.
Source: Sacramento BeeTags: Jobs, Spending, State workers, Specific policy point or details
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 23, 2010Speaking to San Francisco radio station KGO-AM, Brown also said that "the current state salary commission" should be allowed to control the salaries of local officials such as those in the small city of Bell, where the city manager and others were paid salaries that far exceeded what state and federal leaders earn. ... "I want that commission to be given the power to be able to set standards for these local officials," Brown said. "The local pay is much higher in many cases than what we see in the state government." Brown added, "It's very important that we get an independent body that can put the brakes on and, where appropriate, roll back salaries that are not consistent with somebody being a public servant."
Source: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee)Tags: State workers, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 22, 2010"I've outlined $15 billion of savings we can get by just being smart about how we run this government," said Whitman Wednesday. "And so let's get the government back down to where we were just four or five years ago, where we had 33,000 fewer employees."
Source: KABC-TV (Los Angeles)Tags: State workers, Specific policy point or details
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
Jerry Brown
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Sept. 6, 2010Under intense sun at a Labor Day picnic hosted by the Teamsters union at Northgate Park on Sunday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown pitched a jobs program that, in part, would repair Stockton-area levees. "That's jobs, it's protection, it's the environment," he said to a supportive crowd of about 300 people, many waving signs and chanting his name.
Source: The RecordTags: Environment, Jobs, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 1, 2010Whitman opposes reducing the two-thirds threshold, believing it is an "important taxpayer protection that she believes needs to remain in place" spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said. Whitman has no official position on Proposition 25.
Source: Sacramento BeeTags: Budget, State legislature, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 1, 2010"The inability of California's legislature to pass a budget on time is a profound failure of leadership. The budget process begins in January and must be treated with urgency at that point - not months later. For too long, Sacramento politicians have not been held accountable for failing to pass a budget by the Constitutional deadline of June 15th. If I am elected Governor, I will work toward an on-time budget each and every year. But if we don't have a new budget by the start of the new fiscal year my first year as Governor, then I will support measures to ensure that for each day that California goes without a budget after July 1st, legislators would be prohibited from fundraising, they would forfeit their pay and tax-free per diem and they would lose taxpayer-funded travel to their districts. The bottom line is that taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook to pay politicians while they're missing budget deadlines and damaging the stability and fiscal health of the state.
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Budget, State legislature, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Sept. 1, 2010“There needs to be five meetings a week of the Big 5,” she said. “The Big 5 would have been in the governor's office, under my leadership, every day. I would have chained them to the desk to get this done.
Source: Los Angeles TimesTags: Budget, Leadership style, State legislature, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 30, 2010Did you know that six out of the top 15 public universities in America are UC schools? Our state has some of best colleges and universities in the world, but now budget cuts are threatening higher education. I have a plan. Let’s invest a billion dollars in the UC and CSU systems to achieve two goals: stop the tuition increases and protect our ability to do innovative research. But how do we get the money? We’ll reform our broken welfare system. California has one-third of all welfare cases in the country, but we have only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Let’s require work for welfare and a two-year time limit on welfare benefits. Real welfare reform has worked in other states. It’s time to do it here. We’ll use some of the money we save to invest in state colleges. That’s my stand. What’s yours? Let me know at MegWhitman.com.
Source: Meg Whitman campaignTags: Education, Welfare, Policy or issue position, Specific policy point or details
Meg Whitman
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Aug. 29, 2010I have been entirely consistent on my immigration policy from day one. From the earliest days of this campaign, I was very upfront, saying I did not support Proposition 187. And when the Arizona law came into being in Arizona, I said I did not think the Arizona law was right for California because I had a better plan to solve the very significant illegal immigration problem in California. We have to secure the borders. We have to hold employers accountable for only hiring documented workers. We need a temporary guest worker program for our agricultural industry, and we need to eliminate sanctuary cities. So I have been entirely consistent all the way along.
Source: KNBC (Los Angeles)Tags: Immigration, Specific policy point or details
