Place for businesses want to be an ad jobs and grow jobs but we also have to make Smart Investments in our future and infrastructure, education, workforce training and we need to support her workers by raising the minimum wage. Im running for governor to rebuild Rhode Islands middle class and create tens of thousands of goodpaying jobs and i have experience to do that. Prior to becoming treasurer ran a business and we helped to create over 1000 jobs. I am running for governor to rebuild the state can get rhode island back to work. Moderator thank you ms. Raimondo and now Robert Healey an attorney and businessman a partial owner of a Liquor Import Company called peaceville. Mr. Healey has run for statewide office six times. He attended Rhode Island College Boston University and Northeastern University and the new England School of law. Mr. Healey. Healey thank you. I would like to thank you and thank my opponents for being here tonight. I need you to look at me and the reason for that i
Rhode island. Caught my tax plan probusiness, pro Economic Development , and a pro job creation. That is what we need, a leader who is willing to tackle the problems of our state with a sense of urgency, and that is what my plan will do. In my experience, and cutting through red tape and building a Better Business environment, it is evident. Take a look at that part of the city. It is thriving, and this should happen in every city and town across the state. And that is what i intend to do. Moderator a question. You recently sent a platform document saying if you read no other document produced by my campaign, please read this one. Well, i read it and noticed that you said you believe that the largescale entry of women into the American Workforce has caused a detriment to the society that may be beyond repair. Can you explain what you meant. Healey it sounds a misogynist. What we forgot to do when we allowed women to enter into the workforce, we forgot to say that, hey, the extra labor
Companies when they graduate. We should do more of those, build on what we have region by region. And, sure, thats why i have a Regional Economic plan that does precisely that in 13 regions, aligning whats happening in our schools already with curriculum, with making sure that as we roll out half a billion dollars over the next ten years, we will build an economy in the ground up. One thats sustainable, one that invests in our kids and work force so that we wont have jobs going begging as we do now, and we wont have people unemployed as we do now. Save the jobs of thousands of hospitals and in some respects yes we have to made some tough decisions. The leadership requires you to make tough decisions. And i said many times the hardest decision i had to make was to exit the rhode island marketplace but even then im proud of the fact that everybody we owed money to go to page. Everybody that was in treatment we continue to make sure they got transitioned properly and everybody that was em
Maybe. But i can point to dozens of schools where there were dramatic gains that were maintained. The education of Michelle Rhee. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. And by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. Additional funding for this program is provided by Michelle Rhees journey to National Prominence began in 2007. Washington dc had just inaugurated a new mayor, adrian fenty. He had won a landslide election and promised to fix the districts abysmal School System. The lack of real opportunity for young pe
But i can point to dozens of schools where there were dramatic gains that were maintained. The education of Michelle Rhee. Fr in ontlise made possie by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. And by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. Additional funding for this program is provided by Michelle Rhees journey to National Prominence began in 2007. Washington dc had just inaugurated a new mayor, adrian fenty. He had won a landslide election and promised to fix the districts abysmal School System. The lack of real opportunity for young people d