September 3, 2010

Governor’s Weekly Message to Delawareans

Labor Day: Working Hard for Economic Opportunities

(Dover, DE)  In his weekly message , Governor Markell talks about Labor Day as the traditional end to summer beach crowds, BBQs and baseball, weather pending; it also is the holiday that honors some of our country’s core values – responsibility, drive, resilience and faith that by working hard, you can, and should, get ahead.

“While we’re focused on our loved ones this Labor Day weekend, we remain focused on the future and how we can keep people working and expand economic opportunity across our great state," said Governor Markell. "Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we turned into law bipartisan efforts to put people back to work and keep others working."

Those efforts included a bipartisan budget, which funds fewer state positions and meets increasing demands for education, healthcare and public safety; an innovative Business Finder’s Fee tax credit or “BFF,” which aims to turn employers into a sales force for the state by offering them incentives for any new jobs they help bring here and a Clean Energy Jobs package, designed to put more people to work in expanding industries such as wind and solar power.

At noon every Friday, a new video message is posted to the Governor’s website and YouTube channel and is distributed to Delaware media outlets.   Transcripts of the messages are posted and the audio version of the Governor’s message is available on iTunes as a podcast for distribution to personal MP3 players and home computers.   The Governor’s weekly message is currently being carried on the air and posted on websites by various media outlets, and the direct link is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMIE8mVbrH0

Constituents, media outlets and others are free to link to the Governor’s video message on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/GovernorMarkell - or on his Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/governormarkell - or on the Delaware State website at http://governor.delaware.gov/information/podcast_video.shtml. All are also invited to follow him on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/governormarkell- and submit ideas through http://ideas.delaware.gov/.