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Former eBay executive announces candidacy for California governor
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Former eBay executive announces candidacy for California governor
Former eBay executive announces candidacy for California governor
Former eBay executive Meg Whitman announces her candidacy for California governor at a speech this morning. KPCC’s Steve Julian has more on the Republican’s announcement.
Whitman has said her number one goal is to create at least 2 million private sector jobs by 2015, and to make sure that government doesn’t stand in the way. She’d like to cut taxes to give businesses more incentive to invest, expand, and hire more workers.
She also would grade every school from A to F so that parents can figure out how well their children’s schools are doing. Along with that, she would let children opt out of failing schools, and turn over schools that continue to fall to charter operators. Some of her education proposals likely would get the ire of the very powerful state teachers union.
Whitman is 53 and grew eBay from a $4 million company in 1998 to one with more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in revenue. Fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger must leave next year due to term limits.
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