Today, meeting with African-American business owners in Newport News, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe discussed the second chapter of his Business Plan for Virginia, which focuses on growing the economy. McAuliffe highlighted the Plan's provisions to give existing and new small, women, and minority owned businesses the tools they need to succeed, including increasing the number of state contracts to women- and minority-owned businesses, expanding entrepreneurship programs, and creating an ombudsman to monitor complaints from women and minority-owned business.
"To help Virginia's small, women, and minority-owned businesses succeed, it's important that our state government lead by example," McAuliffe said. "Governors Kaine and Warner have made great progress in granting state contracts to small, women, and minority-owned businesses. I pledge to continue this progress and ensure that we are working effectively with these businesses."
