McCauliff is Out – Is Creigh Deeds the Next Virginia Governor?

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Published: August 3, 2009

From the candidate’s website:

Immediate solutions for small business owners, homeowners, and workers

Provide tax incentives for businesses that create jobs.
Help unemployed workers purchase emergency health insurance.
Double the Governor’s Opportunity Fund and put $10 million into job training.
Create a Rural Business Fund to help small businesses in distressed communities.
Finish the last mile of broadband by 2013.
Boost investments in the tourism industry.
Cut red tape in the small business permitting process.
Increase state contracting for small, women- and minority-owned (SMAW) businesses.
Train people for jobs in science and technology related fields.
Train nurses to work in underserved areas.
Ban harmful mortgage lending practices and create a new foreclosure prevention hotline.

An innovative statewide transportation plan

Work with the General Assembly and local stakeholders to design and pass a long-term, multi-modal, statewide, creative transportation proposal in his first year as governor.
Bring high-speed rail to Virginia.
Expand traditional freight and passenger rail.
Reduce rush-hour traffic through telecommuting and flextime tax credits.
Promote smarter land use planning.
Strengthen oversight of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).
Invest in the port and work with military contractors and the Navy.
Expand road and rails projects in Southwest and Southside.
Ease congestion on the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel.

Strategies for making Virginia a leader in green energy industries

Build an energy-based research consortium to coordinate research and development in green energy industries.
Create a strong business environment for green energy companies.
Fund weatherization projects that help low-income Virginians save on their energy bills.

A plan to make government leaner and more efficient

Name an Efficiency Improvement Director from the business community.
Require state government to purchase drugs in bulk to save money.
Promote energy savings in state facilities.
Institute a competitive bidding for durable medical equipment purchases.
Streamline consumer services to maximize efficiency.
Create a state employee workforce plan.
Conduct an unclaimed property auction.

http://www.deedsforvirginia.com

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