Governor Perry received several big endorsements just this week from the Texas Association of Builders, Texas Association of Manufacturers and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.

Governor Perry led a delegation of Texas business and community leaders to New York City for two days this week to meet with site selectors and CEOs to promote Texas as the best state to relocate or expand a business.

The Wall Street Journal explains that businesses and middle class people are fleeing New York. A NY-based center-right think tank, the Empire Center for New York State Policy, notes that Texas is one of the top states gaining displaced New Yorkers.

MSN Money explains that there is a "Texas premium" on U-Haul rental rates:

·         Want to move from Chicago (9.7% unemployment) to Houston (8.4% unemployment)? It will cost you $1,970. But it will cost only $449 to make the trip from Houston to Chicago.

·         Los Angeles (11.8% unemployment) to Houston was $2,051, while Houston to Los Angeles was only $555.

·         San Francisco (10.7% unemployment) to Dallas (8.3% unemployment) will cost you $1,988. But the opposite will cost only $689.

·         Boston to Dallas was $2,134, while Dallas to Boston was only $634.

·         Miami (10.8% unemployment) to Austin, Texas (7.2% unemployment), will cost $1,706. But the reverse will cost only $827.

·         Similarly, Phoenix to Austin will cost $1,490, while Austin to Phoenix will cost only $654.

We might call these differences the "Texas premium" because regardless of location -- East Coast, West Coast or somewhere in between -- the migration appears to be to Texas. U-Haul is lowering the price drastically for anyone who is willing to move the equipment back.

Indeed, with an unemployment roughly 1.5 percent lower than the national average, Texas is doing comparatively well.

However, those numbers do reflect the fact that there are more families in every state who are out of work and facing uncertain times.

The Governor's ongoing commitment to folks looking for a job in these tough times is to keep pressing for economic development that will yield jobs and paychecks, not more government in our lives.

The growing list of endorsements of Governor Perry’s re-election campaign…

Endorsement List (as of October 30th):

Texas Municipal Police Association

Texas Chemical Council

Texas Society of Professional Engineers

RNC Committeewoman Cathie Adams

Texas Right to Life

Houston Realty Business Coalition

Texas Apartment Association

Texas Republican County Chairman Association President Linda Rogers

Heidi Group Founder Carol Everett

Texas Alliance for Life

Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association PAC

Texas Home School Coalition PAC

Texans for Life President Kyleen Wright

Conservative Republicans of Texas President Dr. Steve Hotze            

Free Market Foundation President Kelly Shackelford

Texas Chiropractic Association

State Director of Americans for Prosperity Peggy Venable

Texas State Association of Fire Fighters

Texas Association of Realtors

Texas Civil Justice League

Texas Oil and Gas Association President Rob Looney

Concerned Women for America State Director Ann Hettinger

Texas Optometric Association

Texas Pest Control Association

T. Boone Pickens, Energy Entrepreneur

Texas Recreational Vehicle Association

Texas Poultry Federation

Justice at the Gate Founder Alice Patterson

Texas Cattle Feeders Association Beef-PAC

Founder of Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafly

Texas Pharmacy Business Council

Justice Foundation President Allan Parker, Jr.

Texas Podiatric Medical Association

Texas Association for Interior Design

Former Texas Republican Party Chairman Susan Weddington

Former Secretary of Education and Conservative Radio Host Bill Bennett

Family Research Council Action PAC Chairman Tony Perkins

WallBuilders President and Founder David Barton

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour

Texas Association of Builders HOMEPAC

Manufacturers PAC of Texas

 

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Sarah Floerke

Director of Organization

Texans for Rick Perry

512.478.3276

sarahfloerke@rickperry.org