{"id":332,"date":"2013-04-16T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/16\/gov-perry-takes-aim-at-land-of-lincoln"},"modified":"2013-04-16T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:59:00","slug":"gov-perry-takes-aim-at-land-of-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Perry takes aim at Land of Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You have to hand it to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.<\/p>\n

His fearlessness is a thing to behold. And I don\u2019t mean that necessarily as a compliment.<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s latest job-poaching strategy is now aimed at Illinois. He\u2019s taken out an ad in a business journal that goes directly after employers who might want to relocate in Texas.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/04\/15\/perry-launches-ad-campaign-for-illinois-businesses\/<\/a><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll recall that a few months ago, Perry ventured to California to recruit business owners there to bring their operations to Texas. He openly antagonized California Gov. Jerry Brown. I\u2019m guessing he intended to do precisely that, given that Perry is a partisan Republican and Brown is an equally partisan Democrat.<\/p>\n

And what about the Illinois governor? He is Patrick Quinn, another dreaded Democrat who more than likely doesn\u2019t much like the overtures that Perry is making in his state.<\/p>\n

The last time I commented on Perry\u2019s job-hunting venture, some of my friends said I was being unfair because, they said, the governor is merely doing his job, which is to promote Texas. I certainly understand his desire to create jobs for Texans.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s still a bit unsettling to me is the brazen approach Perry is taking with these public-relations tactics. It\u2019s one thing to promote Texas\u2019s business climate in the relative quiet of a corporate conference room or a board meeting. It\u2019s quite another to make a grand show of it, which he did in California and which he is doing now with the Illinois effort. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he posted in an \u201copen letter\u201d published in Crain\u2019s Chicago Business: \u201cIf you\u2019re a business owner in Illinois, I want to express my admiration for your ability to survive in an environment that, intentionally or not, is designed for you to fail. With rising taxes and government interference on the upswing, your situation is not unlike a burning building on the verge of collapse.”<\/p>\n

Subtle, huh?<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s something to be said for the gumption the governor is showing. I cannot help but wonder how it might play with voters who \u2013 believe it or not \u2013 might have to consider whether someone who wants to take jobs away from their<\/em> state is presidential material in, say, 2016.<\/p>\n\n

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You have to hand it to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. His fearlessness is a thing to behold. And I don\u2019t mean that necessarily as a compliment. Perry\u2019s latest job-poaching strategy is now aimed at Illinois. He\u2019s taken out an ad in a business journal that goes directly after employers who might want to relocate in … Continue reading Gov. Perry takes aim at Land of Lincoln<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}