Gov. Perry is Chicago-bound to tout Texas

[TexasTowelie]

In his latest foray into interstate job poaching, Gov. Rick Perry will head to Chicago Monday for a two-day visit touting Texas as a destination for financial industry and biotech jobs, and to speak at the 2013 BIO International Convention.

Perry launched radio ads on four Chicago stations Wednesday, building on a week of print and web ads warning Windy City businesses, “you need to get out while there’s still time.”

Perry’s office said that the $42,000 radio ad buy is being paid for by TexasOne, as is the advertising with Crain’s Chicago Business and his travel and accommodations in Chicago — “no state tax dollars will be used.”

Altogether, the ad buy comes to $80,450, a very modest amount. The Chicago campaign is modeled on a similar bid earlier this year to draw California businesses to Texas, which involved a minuscule radio ad campaign that prompted an avalanche of free coverage and a Perry visit with a business entourage to California.

More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional/gov-perry-chicago-bound-to-tout-texas-as-destinati/nXPPk/ .

Cross-posted in Texas Group.

[Drale]

1. DONT YOU DARE!!

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY CITY, COUNTY, STATE!! NOW!!! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!

[kysrsoze]

2. I hope that fuckwit P.O.S. moron gets attacked with pies and tomatoes while he's here. Asshole.

[HubertHeaver]

3. Wrong time of year. He should be visiting Illinois when the

high temp for the week is sub-zero.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Poaching OUR brain trust?

DU gives U a big FU.

[Indyfan53]

5. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, Perry!

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We should protest against him. Give him a mic check like we did when Scott Walker came to visit.

Any company who follows this prick back to Texas is getting boycotted.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Except Jimmy Johns.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAKE JIMMY JOHNS WITH YOU, Mr. Governor! It would fit your state's culture perfectly. unhealthy, bad, fast food, often poisoning those who bite into it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Plus, we gots these great fertilizer plants that are super safe

and all, and man, do they make plants grow some.

[stevebreeze]

8. to me the real point is even if Perry takes jobs to TX the only winner is likely the corporation

who receives the giant tax cut to move there. The citizens of IL will loose jobs and tax base. The citizens of TX will end up subsidizing the move. I for one is sick to death of the race to the bottom.