8, 9, and 10 are correct.
1 is ridiculous.
Texas has added 929,000 jobs since 2001, while California has lost approximately 635,000 manufacturing jobs in that same time, Stewart said.
Answering questions after his speech, Stewart told the story of Perry sending programmed cellphones to CEOs in California with a simple message: "If you're interested in growing your business, please call me. I'm here to help."
"They're doing something right down there," Stewart said of what he dubs the "Texas miracle." "Gov. Perry will go anywhere, any time, to try to recruit companies into Texas."
Perry has taken the state's regulatory process and managed it himself, Stewart said………
[CA Economic Development Corporation President Mark] Lascelles emphasized that it does no good to belabor California's regulatory environment.
"Unfortunately, we can't avoid it. We have to deal with it," he said. Speaker focuses on job creation
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MONTANA: Legal gamesmanship threatens our energy future “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is able to boast about job growth under his watch, noting that over 265,000 jobs, or nearly 37 percent of the jobs created nationwide since the summer of 2009, have been created in the Lone Star state.
He credits this growth to a few simple conditions: low taxes, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, and a legal system that limits frivolous lawsuits. According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly one-fourth of the 70 companies that left California this year relocated to Texas.
When new or relocating companies and investors survey the landscape and consider Montana, what do they see? Well, when it comes to natural-resource development, the landscape looks risky.
Recent headlines highlight two major resource development projects slogging through endless legal and regulatory challenges. Investment flees this kind of uncertainty, so Montanans interested in the future economic stability of this state should be wary of the signals we send…” --- [relates short history of 2 outrageous examples] --
“The common experience for Tongue River Railroad and Tonbridge Power is this: Even if you play by the rules, even if you follow the letter of the law, even if you engage with the public during a planning process, even if you get formal approval from the regulatory authorities, you are certain to face organized opposition whose sole intent is to frustrate project development to the point of financial starvation….”
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Perry environmental stance would transform EPA ....>>>>>Perry "approaches the issues from a very libertarian bent," said Jim DiPeso , policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection. "The EPA would be in for some significant budget reduction. There would be no new intiatives, no regulatory programs that would be initated. There'd be litigation from environmental groups that believe he's not enforcing the Clean Air Act and Water Act as robustly as the law provides."
"Any regulatory programs would be really throttled back," he said. "He has shown no interest in climate policy at all. He doesn't accept the science."
With the governor's blessing, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is challenging at least six EPA greenhouse gas-related regulations. The state's underlying argument: The fundamental finding that greenhouse gases are a public health threat is scientifically flawed.
The federal government is pushing "hastily enacted, cascading regulations" on states and businesses, Abbott argued in a June brief filed on behalf of nine states in federal court.
Perry's approach to energy, DiPeso said, "would be to produce more," rather than discourage the development of energy projects, such as coal plants, that emit greenhouse gases associated with global warming.
"In terms of energy, (Perry) would pursue what many Republicans call the 'all of the above' strategy, with more energy development offshore and onshore," DiPeso said. <<<<<
I guess pandering to illegal aliens makes one a tea-party conservative now. ;-) Perry’s record on immigration is much worse than Huckabee’s, and we know what freepers had to say about him. And I would rate his record on taxes about on par with Huckabee, possibly worse because both raised some taxes on services but Perry never went after the RATs “tax the rich” rhetoric like Huckabee did.
If I had to rank the presidential candidates solely on the “how conservative” criteria, Perry would actually end up somewhere in the middle. I go by how they actually governed and what they stood for, now what kind of soundbites they can deliver at tea party rallies. Hence a positively mild low-key guy like Pawlenty is ranked above Perry, because Pawlenty had a more reliable track record, stood by his conservative platform with a far less receptive audience, and never went out of his way to endorse liberals:
1. Michele Bachmann
2. Thaddeus McCotter
3. Rick Santorum
4. Tim Pawlenty
5. Buddy Roemer
6. Herman Cain
7. Rick Perry
8. Newt Gingrich
9. Ron Paul
10. Gary Johnson
11. Mitt Romney
12. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
13. Barack Obama
Bachmann’s gone up in my book, Cain’s been a real disappointment for me this cycle, Johnson would be ranked higher if he wasn’t absolutely wrong on several key issues, and McCotter is intriguing if another long shot. Anyone who tries to punt the responcibility of dealing with hot button issues by saying “send it back to the states” goes down in book. I suspect most of these guys are just saying that so they don’t have to on record about what they’d do, rather than out of some kind of revered respect for federalism and the balence of power (as was demonstrated last time now that “federalist Fred” is supporting the unconstiutional popular vote compact) Roemer (freeper Phil Collin’s endorsed candidate) was hard to place but I don’t expect he’ll last long in the primaries. I didn’t rank Palin (or Christie, or anyone else) because I don’t think she’s running.
Of course the biggest argument for Perry is that he’s supposedly “more electable”, and it’s a good thing we’re not ranking them on “ablity to win votes”, because Perry actually ends up much worse on that list. Nearly ever elected candidate in the race has won tougher elections than him, even has beens like Santorum.