(March 16, 2010) California Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Allan Zaremberg discussed the importance of a business-friendly governor to California to the audience prior to the Republican Primary Gubernatorial Debate in Orange County yesterday.
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| Allan Zaremberg |
The debate featured the two leading Republican candidates for governor, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who shared with Californians their solutions for California’s future. During the one-hour debate, they discussed plans to balance the state’s budget, bring jobs to California and improve the economy.
Zaremberg told the audience that California’s next governor will govern the largest economy in the United States. The next governor will have the power to sign or veto the budget, use the line item veto, sign or veto legislation critical to California’s economy, appoint judges and make political appointments. Not every governor gets to do that, he reminded the audience. He closed by saying that the most important role for the next governor is to make jobs and the economy their number one priority.
New Majority California chairman Larry Higby opened the program by thanking the candidates for their thoughts on the issues that are so important to California.
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| Meg Whitman |
Organized a decade ago, New Majority states that its mission is to broaden the appeal of the Republican Party by promoting a fiscally responsible philosophy toward government and lending resources to Republicans who support an inclusive, mainstream approach toward politics.
KNBC political reporter Conan Nolan moderated the debate. Nolan is an Emmy-winning television journalist at KNBC-TV and is the host of NBC 4’s “News Conference,” the longest running public affairs program in southern California television. He has already interviewed both of these Republican candidates for his show.
Nolan asked seven questions from the following topic areas:
Budget and taxes;
Jobs and the economy;
Long-term solutions for California’s future.
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| Steve Poizner |
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