SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It appears New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is falling behind in the push to get the Tesla Battery Plant, click on the link to the story below that we had last night from USA Today, that Texas and Nevada are the states left in the running for then plant. I have always loved Rick Perry, he stands for Biblical principles, against abortion and he supports the sanctity of marriage, and has a strong economy in his state, unlike what is taking place in New Mexico. A bid by Texas to lure a Tesla battery factory brought that state’s salesman-in-chief to the doorstep of California’s state Capitol this week — and to underscore the point, Gov. Rick Perry arrived in one of the automaker’s sleek, all-electric vehicles.
Before his scheduled meeting with Republican state lawmakers, Gov. Perry cruised up to the Hyatt hotel across from the Capitol behind the wheel of a metallic gray, four-door Tesla Model S.
California and Texas are among five states including New Mexico fighting for the planned battery plant, which will represent a $5 billion investment from the California-based car company and its partners.
Tesla plans to break ground this summer on the battery factory and start production by 2017 to meet demands for a new line of lower-cost electrical vehicles.
There’s no word on what NM governor Martinez may be doing to lure Tesla to the Land of Enchantment and bring the badly needed 6,500 jobs here.
Perry comes to California because Texas hasn’t created a single innovation, trend or game changing industry and because the only way they know how to “create jobs” is to bribe them from other states (using public school money, etc.). However it’s not all rosy for Perry, take for example: Dell chose San Jose over Austin to build a major R&D center to employ 1,500, Entropic is shutting down Austin and relocating jobs to San Diego and has chose to expand there instead, Google’s Motorola Mobility is shutting down its factory in Fort Worth and thousands of jobs will move to China, National Instruments has cancelled it’s 1,000 job expansion in Austin (and cancelled the $80m incentive agreement) and will create the jobs in Malaysia instead, Texas has recorded the 2nd highest number of job cuts in the Western states so far this year at 9,277, the share of the Texas economy produced by the information, communications and technology sectors is 27% smaller than it was in 1998. Rick Perry is like a giant balloon, full of hot air.