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In Ads, Perry Reaches Out to California Businesses

by Maurice Chammah
February 4, 2013
9 Comments

Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he's hitting the airwaves in California to tout business opportunities in Texas and invite Californians to migrate.

"Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California is next to impossible," Perry says in the ad, which is posted at the website Texas Wide Open for Business, set up by the Texas Economic Development Division in the governor's office.

"Zero state income tax, low overall tax burden, sensible regulations and a fair legal system are just the things Texas offers to get your business moving," he adds. "So come ...

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Comments (9)

February 4 @ 1:58 p.m.

Jack Suggs via Texas Tribune on Facebook

What else does Goodhair hear?
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February 4 @ 2:06 p.m.

Susan Syler

Please have someone edit paragraph 5.
February 4 @ 2:09 p.m.

Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook

He heard wrong. It's not.
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February 4 @ 2:43 p.m.

Darlene Renard via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Sure! Go ahead and invite all the Obama supporters to move here, they will continue to vote for the kool aid regardless of where they live and our state will be turned into a wasteland just like California, Chicago, New York etc.
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February 4 @ 3:04 p.m.

Lynn Paris via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I wish
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February 4 @ 3:08 p.m.

Justin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook

A wasteland? Hell, Texas is already there with the My way or Hi way mentality by people like you, while Perry, Dewhurst, and company are creating Neo Feual state.
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February 4 @ 6:09 p.m.

Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Perry is doing a pretty good job going the "wasteland" route with his education cuts and turning down Medicaid $$$$. Soon he will be begging for help just like he did when the fires came.
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February 4 @ 6:43 p.m.

LuAnn Ferguson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

He "hears" all sorts of things...maybe he should read and research instead of "hearing" so much stuff.
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February 5 @ 11:09 a.m.

gypsy314 ne

No liberals allowed