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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:19 AM Apr 2013

Perry Aims to Poach Illinois Jobs as Texas Blast Lingers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-24/perry-aims-to-poach-illinois-jobs-as-texas-blast-lingers.html

Texas Governor Rick Perry strutted into Illinois this week, hoping to convince employers to move south to the land of no income tax and less government regulation.

The explosion of a fertilizer plant that killed at least 14 people in his home state last week won’t alter his sales pitch. The blast, which leveled much of the town of West, Texas, didn’t stem from an employer-friendly attitude toward regulation, zoning and other strictures, the three-term Republican governor said in an April 22 interview in Chicago.

“There are probably places all across the country where cities have grown up around manufacturing of some form or fashion,” Perry said. “Is the response going to be we’re going to move all of these -- either the business or the residential -- away from these places? And are the people willing to pay that cost?”

Perry preceded his visit with an $80,000 advertising campaign last week that, as one radio ad put it, Illinois businesses ought to “get out while there’s still time.” While the explosion at Adair Grain Inc.’s West Fertilizer Co. plant, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) south of Dallas, hasn’t been mentioned in blunt rebuttals from Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, both Democrats, it provides fresh fodder for the tradition of states trashing each other to attract employers.
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BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
1. Perry is desperate for jobs for his state. Trying to poach jobs in California and now Illinois
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:54 AM
Apr 2013

is a sign that all is not well in Texas. And it's pretty sad that the governor is doing this personally. It smacks of desperation to me.

DBoon

(22,288 posts)
2. If Texas is so great for business
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 09:55 AM
Apr 2013

why don't they create their own jobs?

Why does he keep having to poach jobs from other states?

Maybe these other states are actually better at creating jobs than Texas?

bullwinkle428

(20,627 posts)
3. I wanted to puke when I heard that assclown was coming to IL
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 10:05 AM
Apr 2013

to entice businesses to move to his "Libertarian utopia"!

NOTE : Absolutely no offense intended towards the residents of Texas! They already have my deepest sympathies for having to put up with "public servants" like Perry, Gohmert, etc.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. Remember when Walker said all the business was going to go up to WISC?
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 10:40 AM
Apr 2013

Then his whole state went into a worker's chaos and protests all over Wisc...no biggies left IL for that mess that I know of....

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