Let the poaching proceed - Gov. Perry heading to California Sunday on business recruitment trip

This week began with Gov. RIck Perry, under the auspices of TexasOne, launching a low-budget radio campaign in California inviting businesses to move to Texas.

Next week begins Sunday with Perry traveling to San Francisco, the Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Orange County, leading a business recruitment trip, also paid for by Texas One, that will include a reception for businesses that got in touch with TexasWideOpenForBusiness.com since the ad began running.

Perry and company are targeting California’s high tech, biotechnology, financial, insurance and film industries.

All the costs of the four-day trip — the governor and an accompanying delegation will return Wednesday — will also be paid for byTexasOne, a public-private partnership that markets Texas as a place to do business.

According to the governor’s office, Perry’s delegation will include Texas Economic Development Corp. Chair Bruce Bugg, several local economic development officials and business representatives representing Oncor, BNSF Railway, and the cities of Allen, Amarillo, Austin, Brownsville, Conroe, DeSoto, Frisco, Houston, Lubbock, Midland, McKinney, Pflugerville, San Antonio and Schertz.

More at http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2013/02/07/let_the_poaching_proceed_gov_p.html/.

Cross-posted in the California Group at http://www.democraticunderground.com/10402996 .