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(Montpelier, VT, March 24, 2010) – The next leg of Lt. Governor Brian Dubie’s Jobs Tour will take him to Middlebury and Bristol on Monday. He launched the Jobs Tour on January 13 and has so far has travelled to Rutland, Windham, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Caledonia, Addison and Lamoille counties, asking local area employers how the state can best help them retain existing jobs and grow new jobs.
Since taking office in 2003, Dubie has travelled all over the country and the world to promote Vermont businesses. He says that keeping existing jobs in Vermont and attracting new jobs requires Vermont to compete not just with 49 other states, but the world as well.
Forbes Magazine recently ranked Vermont as the 47th best state in the nation to do business. The ranking is down eleven spots from the previous year. Dubie attributes it in part to the state legislature’s failure to reduce state spending and “right-size” state government. “Actions have consequences,” he said, “and raising taxes in a recession, as the legislature did last year, is not leadership. It sends the message that Vermont is closed for business. When our small businesses grow, we create the revenue that funds all the great things that we value in our state.”
Lt. Governor Dubie says he is bullish on Vermont. “There is no bigger cheerleader for Vermont than me,” Dubie said. “But we simply must do better than 47th. Making Vermont the best state in New England to earn a living and run a small business must be priority number one,” he stated
The itinerary for Thursday is as follows
BARRE JOBS TOUR
25 March, 2010
7:15 – 7:30 FROGGY 100.9 with Jim Severance sitting in for JD Green
8:00 – 9:00 Coffee Roundtable
L.A.C.E., 159 N Main Street, Barre
9:20 – 10:30 Vermont Butter & Cheese Tour
40 Pitman Road, Websterville, VT
10:45 – 11:45 Vermont Smoke & Cure Tour
509 South Barre Road, Barre, VT
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch with Mayor Thom Lauzon
Lucia’s Restaurant
276 North Main Street Barre
Downtown Walk-around with Thom Lauzon:
1:45-2:45 Rock of Ages Tour
772 Graniteville Road, Barre
3:00 PM – 3:45 DMS Machine & Fabrication
10 Transport Drive, Barre
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