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State of the States: Lone Star Perry seeks to tweak Empire Andrew
Name anyone in political punditry who can resist another excuse to prematurely raise the 2016 presidential contest. So here goes: Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose did some one-upsmanship by claiming Democratic New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo would like to have the Lone Star state's job-creation record.
“I’m sure that I couldn’t get all 49 other governors to admit that they would want...