Just in case you did not know what a presidential campaign by Gov. Rick Perry would focus on: it's Texas job growth.
A political action group known as Jobs for Iowa, not affiliated with Perry but encouraging him to run, will start airing television commercials today in support of the Texas governor, who has not yet announced a presidential bid, according to POLITICO.
POLITICO reported that the group, with funding from wealthy Texans, will pay $40,000 for the commercial to air on the FOX News Channel in Iowa for two weeks.
The ad calls Perry a "conservative with proven leadership in tough times."
It touts Texas job growth with "no state income tax and no deficit." Texas had an up to $27 billion shortfall for the 2012-13 biennium and a more than $4 billion deficit in the current budget cycle.
Below is the ad:
The Associated Press reported that Perry came in a distant second in a straw poll of the Western Conservative Summit this weekend in Denver.
About 48 percent of the 508 people surveyed in the poll selected Georgia businessman Herman Cain, while 13 percent selected Perry. Both spoke at the event, though Cain spoke right before the poll, the AP reported.
Perry will crumble under the heavy weight of true scrutiny, and when the media microscopes focus in on him and every detail of his miserable existence, he'll shrivel up and blow away like a west Texas tumbleweed in a springtime sand storm!
Posted by: Glenda Hawthorne | August 01, 2011 at 02:59 PM
No deficit in Texas, just ask the school districts, hospital districts and any Texan, I cannot believe that people would believe that but then again we are talking about Tea Party and Republicans that want to believe anything.
Posted by: lea | August 01, 2011 at 03:41 PM
A presidential campaign based on an alternate reality.
Posted by: Texano78704 | August 08, 2011 at 11:36 AM