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Gov. Malloy Crashes Rick Perry's Party
Dannel Malloy dropped in on a luncheon Monday where Perry was seeking to woo Connecticut businesses to relocate to Texas.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy paid a surprise visit to Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday afternoon during Perry’s meeting with a group of Connecticut business owners he’s trying to woo to Texas.
Malloy popped into the swanky Max Downtown restaurant in Hartford during Perry’s noontime luncheon with several major business owners. Malloy told reporters gathered in the restaurant’s lobby that he wanted to show the Texas governor some “Yankee Hospitality,” according to the website CT News Junkie.
“I just thought it would be an appropriate thing, since you guys were all so interested in all this, that I should welcome him to the state,” the website quotes Malloy.
Unflapped by the Connecticut governor’s visit, Perry told reporters he appreciated Malloy stopping by.Perry is one of two governors who traveled to Connecticut this week to try and pitch their state’s friendly busy climates to Connecticut manufacturers, including gun makers upset about the state’s new gun laws that were passed in reaction to the Newtown shootings.
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Also in the state today is South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who wants to meet with Colt Manufacturing in West Hartford and Stag Firearms in New Britain in an effort to get those gun makers to move to his state, the Hartford Courant reports.
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