The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Feb. 5, 2013
Culled
• Jerry Brown calls Texas Gov Rick Perry's ad 'barely a fart' (Sacramento Bee): "One day after Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a radio ad in California criticizing the Golden State's business climate and encouraging businesses to relocate to Texas, California Gov. Jerry Brown said today that Perry's campaign is 'barely a fart.' 'It's not a serious story, guys,' the Democratic governor told reporters at a business event here. 'It's not a burp. It's barely a fart.'"
• Republican lawmaker Dan Branch considering running for AG, if Greg Abbott vacates the seat (The Dallas Morning ...
Comments (8)
Alexandra Richmond via Texas Tribune on Facebook
what lofty discourse.
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I am all about geting business in our state. But to actively attack other states seems to demonstrate that Perry doesn't get the game. We are all in this together. This isn't Texas vs other states, it is Texas working with the other states. His gunslinger attitude demonstrates bad politics at their worst.
Regina Miller-Fierke via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas is the Mexico/India of the rest of the country - "right to work", minimum wage jobs, very limited benefits and services, lagging in education/training, and the list goes on and on.
Steve Munday via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Most if not all states have a department responsible for brining in new business and revenue. It is called friendly competition.
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Friendly yes.
Actively saying "working in California sucks" no.
Justin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I love it how Rick Perry complains to Joe Pags and hate talk radio that PRESIDENT Obama is dividing the country, but yet he is pitting one state to another.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jerry calls out Gov. Mofu...
dan cooper
Please sign the petition to repeal SBX211. Government bribing
judges. Please sign petition to stop bribes to judges. SBX211
HISTORY OF RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES
1. given for illegal merger of large banks in 1965 (we can see the effects of that now)
2. given for unconstitutional use of torture
3. given to telecom company for illegal wire taps. (Fisa bill that led to the patriot act)
4. given to Judges for taking bribes. (SBX211)
Ted Kennedy back in 1965 in regards to the illegal merger of six large banks.
Quote: ""The very idea of “retroactive immunity” for lawbreaking corporations is so radical, so repugnant to the most basic principles of the “rule of law,”"