Meg Whitman To Tour Garden Grove Company
GARDEN GROVE (CBS) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman Monday is scheduled to tour a Garden Grove company that makes environmentally friendly cleaning supplies.
Whitman's Democratic opponent, Jerry Brown, is scheduled to appear at a San Francisco news conference with Asian Pacific Islander elected officials.
Whitman, a former eBay chief executive officer, has pledged to help create two million private sector jobs by 2015.
Her job creation plan includes tax cuts for businesses of every size; eliminating the factory tax to strengthen manufacturing and create and retain high-paying jobs; eliminating the state capital gains tax; increasing research and development tax credits; accelerating depreciation of new business equipment and establishing tax incentives and credits to train and hire displaced workers.
Whitman has also said she would have legislators become focused on retaining jobs in their district.
"If you do not care who gets the credit, it's amazing what can be done," Whitman said.
Brown, the state's attorney general, has called for stimulating clean energy jobs; encouraging business start-ups and expansions; creating a "strike team" to focus on job retention and creation; cutting regulations; encouraging manufacturing jobs; improving job training programs; and maintaining a high-quality educational system to attract and retain jobs and investments.
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