Feeling bullied by Rahm Emanuel? Bring your business down to Texas.
That's the message Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is sending big banks and firearms companies, after the Chicago mayor urged those banks to stop lending to the gun manufacturers.
The freshman senator sent a letter Tuesday to the CEOs of Bank of America and TD Bank Group offering up the Lone Star State as a place where they could do business without hassle from the government. He said he understands that, since they do "considerable business" with Chicago, they might be worried about the "risks" of not complying with Emanuel's request.
"In light of the reception you have received in the Windy City, please know that Texas would certainly welcome more of your business and the jobs you create," Cruz wrote in his Jan. 29 letter. "Texans value jobs and value freedom, and over 1,000 people a day are moving to Texas (often from cities like Chicago), because Texas is where the jobs are."
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While I think Ted Cruz's heart is in the right place with this, he is wrong! The last thing many Texans, including myself, want is more uppity Yankees (especially the Chicago and New York variety), or a corrupt bank like Bank of America located/HQ in our State!!
ReplyDeleteThe last thing many Texans, including myself, want is more uppity Yankees (especially the Chicago and New York variety),
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Bryan, look at it this way: it's a way to do missionary work with those poor heathen uppity damnYankees who'd move to Texas.
ReplyDeleteWe have to do it when they move here to Alabama; it usually only takes a few months for them to realize just how badly they were lied to, and within a couple of years they've acclimated. Most of them take to the South like ducks to water. In Texas, those that don't, move to Austin.
Poor Austin.
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DeletePoor Austin?? Hell, if any of y'all want it you can have Austin!! Yankeeland, and the Home of The University of YankeeThink at Austin.... Damn Austin!
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DeleteOne of my favorite movies is "The Outlaw Josie Wales." It is taken from a book I loved long ago that I think was entitled "GTT, Gone to Texas." Supposedly when men had had enough crap where they lived, after the Panic of 1819, (not after the War of Northern Aggression, as in Eastwood's movie) they wrote GTT on a shingle and stuck it on a post. Everyone knew what it meant.
ReplyDeleteBefore her brief career of writing songs in Nashville, my wife wrote one entitled "GTT, Gone to Texas" that was a pretty good song. Although Garth Brooks did some demos for her I don't think he did that one.
In the hip pocket of my mind I carry Davy Crockett's Congressional retirement speech where he said, "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas."
He was a hero for the ages. He once said, "I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the White House no matter who he is."
He represented Greene County, TN, then the state of Franklin, where my father attended one year of college at Tusculum, Tennessee's oldest college. It is a beautiful area in the beautiful third of Tennessee. I would happily go back to Tennessee.
Good info. Thanks.
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