{"id":70,"date":"2013-06-19T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/19\/gov-perry-tosses-collegiality-aside"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:28:00","slug":"gov-perry-tosses-collegiality-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Perry tosses collegiality aside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s job-recruitment journey has taken him to the northeastern United States where he\u2019s appealing directly to businesses to relocate to Texas.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen the latest ad and to be candid, it\u2019s actually a pretty good piece of work.<\/p>\n

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I continue to be amazed at the in-your-face approach Perry is taking toward his fellow governors. The previous targeted states \u2013 California, Illinois and now, New York \u2013 all are governed by Democrats. Perry, who once was a Democrat, is now a card-carrying Republican who\u2019s demonstrating time and again that he doesn\u2019t care one bit about working with Democrats.<\/p>\n

Still, he is a member of the National Governors Association, which still has a number of members from the \u201cother\u201d party. He goes to NGA meetings, hob-knobs \u2013 I presume \u2013 with other states\u2019 governors. Maybe they swap stories about working with their legislatures or even brag about how good things are going in their particular state.<\/p>\n

Does he cross the proverbial aisle at these meetings and talk shop with Democrats? My hunch is that he rubs shoulders only with Republicans, mainly because he\u2019s managing to tick off Democrats with his job-poaching initiative.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I cannot blame the governor for wanting to lure more business to Texas. Name a governor of any political stripe who doesn\u2019t want to put more constituents to work and I\u2019ll show you someone who\u2019s not long for the office he or she holds.<\/p>\n

But every business magazine published already has touted the Lone Star State\u2019s business-friendly environment. It\u2019s the worst-kept secret in the realm of national politics. <\/p>\n

The governor might need some of those Democratic governors one day to help push some bipartisan idea forward \u2013 if any such notion ever pops into Perry\u2019s noggin. I\u2019m betting they won\u2019t stand with him.<\/p>\n\n

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