Perry Spreads the Word About Texas in Northern Italy
Gov. Rick Perry, wrapping up a weeklong trip to picturesque northern Italy, said he is trying to talk European businesses into moving some of their operations to Texas and has been forging closer ties with the promoters of Formula One racing.
Perry gave a rundown of his European visit Monday. He told Texas reporters on a trans-Atlantic conference call that he caught an F1 race in Milan on Sunday and had attended an international conference on the shores of Lake Como, the posh Alpine resort area known for its famous homeowners like George Clooney.
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Comments (14)
Phil Nice via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I wonder how many Texas operations he's trying to sell to Italy.
A Lerma Stickelbault via Texas Tribune on Facebook
dick perry has a b.s. degree and he spreads b.s. all over.
Casey Magnuson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can he just stay there?
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Maybe he needed some Italian made boots to stick in his mouth.
Matt Treat via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Someone confiscate his passport.
Jerry Andrews
Boondoggle! If this was a business trip, then we would be paying for his travel and hotel. I wonder if he considers money in the Enterprise fund to NOT belong to the tax payers? I wonder who is paying for this, because he doesn't ever claim that he is.
Audrey Fisher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Did he miss the memo, most authorities in EU have admitted that austerity doesn't work - even IMF head is changing her tune. Rick as usual is incapable of keeping up with the bouncing ball called world economics.
Scott Nicol via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How much is this joy-ride costing Texas taxpayers?
Reda Cavender
And I can't afford gasoline to drive to Austin. I'm so glad that money, and power mean so much to Rick Perry.
Dorothy Spriggs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He needs a real long years long vacation on the range!
karen Browder
I am so glad the Italians the had the opportunity to see what a blooming idiot we have as the cheerleader for our state. Spreading BS is what he learned at College Station and continued while in office here in Texas . Fortunately for the US, he was given the national stage and imploded.
John Carhart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Really? Are they going to be attracted to the public school system that the GOP is defunding as fast as possible? Just another junket to feed Rick's hyperinflated ego!
Tony Trevino
Still amazed at Governor spending Tx taxpayer money for personal gain. If the Italian economy is tanking, and presumably their businesses, why would they relocate. By bribing them with Enterprise money?
The emperor has no clothers. Everyone knows this is a junkette trips that he wanted tax payers to fund. It could just as well been Monte Carlo. Pretty sickening.
Fred Habenicht
Trip to northern Italy? George Clooney? OMG - Clooney is about as far to the right extremist as you can get! Supporting Obama with money and benefits, we do NOT want to support any more of that regime.
We can't afford it and, as far as I am concerned, we desperately have to have LESS GOVERNMENT.