Y’ALL COME ON DOWN TO TEXAS

Rick Perry invites businesses in the former Golden State, now Rusty Iron State, to pack up and come on down to set up shop in the Lone Star State

While Texas is not all that kind to us common folks, the Lone Star State has always had a great pro-business climate.

RICK PERRY CALLS FOR CALIFORNIA TO MOVE TO TEXAS
By Richard Connelly

Houston Press Hair Balls
February 4, 2013

Governor Rick Perry, apparently abandoning his idea of seceding from the U.S., has another plan -- if you can't take the Texas out of America, you can bring the America into Texas.

Or something like that. Perrryesque logic can be tough to decipher sometimes.

Perry's office has announced it's purchasing radio airtime in five California markets urging business to get the hell out of that pansy-ass state and come to place that's going balls to the wall giving tax breaks to bidnessmen. Namely, Texas.

The ads are paid for by Texas One, "a public-private partnership that markets Texas nationally and internationally as a prime business destination." They'll run for a week on six stations in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Inland Empire and San Diego.

The message?

__Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California is next to impossible. This is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and I have a message for California businesses: come check out Texas. There are plenty of reasons Texas has been named the best state for doing business for eight years running.

__Visit texaswideopenforbusiness.com, and see why our low taxes, sensible regulations and fair legal system are just the thing to get your business moving to Texas.

"Fair legal system"? We guess Texas doesn't need any more of that "tort reform" Perry's always going on about. (And yes, our governor gets full points for naming three reasons to move to Texas without a single "oops," but we don't know how many takes it took to record the ad.)

The ad copy can only be improved by hearing it delivered in the dulcet tones of our favorite governor. We also think it'd be better if it started off with something like "Those liberals in Washington would have you believe 'Californy is the place you oughta be'....."