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Source: San Jose Mercury News
Declaring that his conservative state had knocked California off its perch as the nation's business leader, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday bragged that the Golden State is now "looking at our backside."
A year after his presidential bid ended in falture, Perry returned to the West Coast Friday for visits to San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles in an attempt to lure businesses to Texas following a state-wide ad campaign last week. It's part of a push by low-tax states to entice California millionaires hurt by recent tax hikes that have left California's wealthiest to stomach the highest income tax rate in the nation.
In a wide-ranging one-on-one interview with this newspaper, the Republican politician fired return shots at California Gov. Jerry Brown, said Austin, Texas is poised to become the "next Silicon Valley" and characterized California as a great state that has lost its way.
"Some time in the past, California became uncompetitive with other states because of their tax (and) regulatory policies in particular," said Perry, wearing a red tie, dress shirt, slacks and sneakers in a downtown San Francisco hotel room. "There is somebody that wants to knock you off your perch. That's what's happened to California."
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22566837/california-is-looking-at-our-backside-texas-gov
Umm, isn't Austin (home of the University of Texas flagship campus) politically the San Francisco of the Lone Star State?