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Pipe maker moving Illinois headquarters to Houston
Fuel Fix ^ | August 14, 2012 | Simone Sebastian

Posted on 08/14/2012 7:08:44 AM PDT by thackney

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To: CMAC51
I love the Texas weather. I grew up in Michigan where it was “9 month of winter and 3 months of poor sledding...”

There's "Texas weather," and then there's "Houston weather." A towel is useless 9 months out of the year.

21 posted on 08/14/2012 7:36:53 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: thackney
Pipe maker moving Illinois headquarters to Houston

Sounds like pipe makers are serious about the energy biz.

Chicago, not to worry. Many pipe smokers will be moving into downtown.

22 posted on 08/14/2012 7:37:43 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Spirochete
They are.

Do you live here in IL? Doubt you do making a stupid statement like that. Outside Chicago and C(r)ook County, the "collar counties" such as DuPage where this company is are pretty darn RED. DuPage County is one of the most Conservative counties in IL.

23 posted on 08/14/2012 7:37:57 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Red Badger

Yes, I lived in Houston for about 18 months after growing up in North Central Texas. One thing that stood out is how friendly people in Houston were, despite the crime and grimy humidity.

The weather if fine if you don’t mind being wet all of the time.


24 posted on 08/14/2012 7:39:23 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: thackney

Wrong. Your simple mathematical example fails to take in the massive voter fraud that comes out of the locales I named.


25 posted on 08/14/2012 7:39:40 AM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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To: bcsco
Thank you, well said.

Some folks on here just prefer to paint everyone who lives in Illinois with the "Obama brush" I suppose. Ignorant jackasses that they are.

26 posted on 08/14/2012 7:39:40 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: thackney

I guess they got tired of “Chicago Values” /s


27 posted on 08/14/2012 7:41:49 AM PDT by Chief901 (Obama Septic Tank Campaign Ads, full of sh!t and smell like crap)
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To: usconservative

It just irritates me sometimes when people paint everyone from Illinois with the same broad brush. It’s bad enough having to live under such conditions, let alone not being counted by our fellow patriots.


28 posted on 08/14/2012 7:42:34 AM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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To: bcsco

The company mentioned comes from the Greater Chicago area. The distance from Downers Grove to Downtown Chicago is less than my daily commute.


29 posted on 08/14/2012 7:45:01 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: fwdude

That’s why I live in Ft. Walton Beach. It’s Houston without the crime.........;^)


30 posted on 08/14/2012 7:45:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You can’t fool the Laffer curve.

It gets you every time.”

Beuhler?

Beuhler?

Anyone?


31 posted on 08/14/2012 7:45:49 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: thackney

I bet Texas will turn blue in the next decade. With all these companies moving to Texas from the north, they will be bringing their employers with them (most of them anyway). That is why you are seeing a slow shift in the mid-west to red states and the south will be turning blue. However, we cannot allow Texas to turn blue without California or New York turning red.


32 posted on 08/14/2012 7:55:47 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Attention Republican National Convention voters....Santorum/Bachmann 2012! Dump liberal Romney NOW!)
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To: usconservative

Outside Chicago and C(r)ook County

Outside of those two counties there are hardly any people.


33 posted on 08/14/2012 7:58:00 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Attention Republican National Convention voters....Santorum/Bachmann 2012! Dump liberal Romney NOW!)
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To: thackney

I named Chicago, not the greater Chicago area. Downers Grove is 40 miles directly East of me. It’s a suburb, and likely has as many Republican voters as it has Democrats. Also, as a suburb, it falls within Obama’s attack on suburbia.

Just because the company comes from near Chicago doesn’t mean the employees are, by default, Democrats.


34 posted on 08/14/2012 7:58:52 AM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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To: napscoordinator
Outside of those two counties there are hardly any people.

You're an ignorant jackass (with all due deference to jackasses everywhere.)

35 posted on 08/14/2012 8:01:40 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: thackney

Maybe they didn’t get the special tax discount some of the other Illinois industries received.


36 posted on 08/14/2012 8:04:40 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: napscoordinator
We count for six in DuPage. :) Illinois total population by county, 2006
37 posted on 08/14/2012 8:09:04 AM PDT by mlizzy (And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell others not to kill? --MT)
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To: fwdude; CMAC51
“I know you're referring to the economic and business environment in a conservative region like Texas, not the weather. ;)”

I grew up in Michigan and moved to Houston in 1979. I'll second what CMAC51 said. Skipping the Michigan winters more than makes up for the Houston summers. Weather is pretty nice from October through April - and sometime into May.

Moving into a conservative region after growing up in Michigan was like finding a home after being a stranger in my home town all of my life. But the primary reason I came here was that I could not take the Michigan winters.

38 posted on 08/14/2012 8:15:37 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: napscoordinator

The kind of people that are brought to Texas as their firm moves there to escape liberalism, taxes, and over regulation, are probably already pretty well hip to the real world consequences of politics, I would think that they would be a net gain for conservatism in Texas, and a counter to immigration.


39 posted on 08/14/2012 8:23:04 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: napscoordinator
Outside Chicago and C(r)ook County

Outside of those two counties there are hardly any people.

That's the most clueless statement I've seen on FR in quite some time. But then, maybe your intention was to denigrate Illinois patriots. It's one or the other...

40 posted on 08/14/2012 8:25:11 AM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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