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10-02-2013, 12:21 PM
Rick Perry is not the first governor to try to lure jobs from other states. Others have done it for decades, often with discretion, sometimes with gimmicks, like the time Arnold Schwarzenegger drove a moving truck down the Las Vegas Strip in 2004 while trying to woo businesses to California.
But no governor in recent memory has conducted interstate recruiting with the same fervor, swagger and expense as Mr. Perry, of Texas.
In the past seven months, Mr. Perry has flown to six states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri and New York — to lure employers. His trips have been accompanied by radio and television commercials promoting the business climate of Texas and criticizing the taxes and regulations elsewhere. (“When you grow tired of Maryland taxes squeezing every dime out of your business, think Texas, where we’ve created more jobs than all the other states combined,” Mr. Perry told radio audiences).
But skeptics wonder whether the trips are more about selling Mr. Perry than about selling Texas as he ponders a second presidential run in 2016. And along with media coverage that has kept his name in the news, Mr. Perry has faced some barbs about the motives and the effectiveness of his efforts.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/us/texas-governors-trips-to-lure-jobs-stir-skepticism-over-motive.html
But no governor in recent memory has conducted interstate recruiting with the same fervor, swagger and expense as Mr. Perry, of Texas.
In the past seven months, Mr. Perry has flown to six states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri and New York — to lure employers. His trips have been accompanied by radio and television commercials promoting the business climate of Texas and criticizing the taxes and regulations elsewhere. (“When you grow tired of Maryland taxes squeezing every dime out of your business, think Texas, where we’ve created more jobs than all the other states combined,” Mr. Perry told radio audiences).
But skeptics wonder whether the trips are more about selling Mr. Perry than about selling Texas as he ponders a second presidential run in 2016. And along with media coverage that has kept his name in the news, Mr. Perry has faced some barbs about the motives and the effectiveness of his efforts.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/us/texas-governors-trips-to-lure-jobs-stir-skepticism-over-motive.html