Sacramento Bee bitch slaps Rick Perry, Texas over radio ads poaching California businesses

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First, some background:
     When Nebraska Furniture Mart executives went to Texas in 2011 to plan its newest megastore, the state immediately started to grab for the whole enchilada, dangling large tax inducements to persuade the store to move its headquarters from Omaha, the home of current owner, Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, which bought the enterprise from Omaha's Blumkin family.
     NFM said no thanks. Like Buffett, it liked Omaha and would run things from here.

Warren Buffett buys NFM on a handshake from the woman whose motto
was ''Sell cheap, tell the truth, don't cheat nobody.'' (Did you catch that
middle part, Rick Perry?)   Photo from Nebraska Furniture Mart website

     Before engaging in their hamfisted overreaching, Texas economic development officials might have done well to peruse the New York Times' 1998 obituary of NFM's matriarch to familiarize themselves with the local bonds they were trying to sever:

Based on his experience as a customer and as an acquaintance of her [Rose Blumkin's] children, Mr. Buffett made the acquisition on a handshake without bothering to audit her books or inventory.

     Texas bidnessmen can have sharp elbows. Especially in California, where they now are using radio ads to amplify their acquisitive opportunism. Here was the tart response to that in an astringent Sacramento Bee editorial, published Wednesday:    

     Poor Texas. With its high dropout rate, lack of health insurance coverage and economic disparities, the Lone Star State appears to be desperate, or least its governor is. How else to explain Gov. Rick Perry's unseemly radio ads attempting to lure businesses away from California?
     "Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California is next to impossible," the Republican governor says in the ad. "This is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and I have a message for California businesses: Come check out Texas."
     Yes, come check out Texas. Check out a state that ranks dead last in the percent of its population with high school diplomas. Come check out a state that is last in mental health expenditures and workers' compensation coverage. Come check out a state that ranks first in the number of executions, first in the number of uninsured, first in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and first in the amount of toxic chemicals released into water.

     The dressing down continued for eight more paragraphs, within which the Bee took issue with Jerry Brown's comparison of the importance of Texas' radio ads to a fart. The paper said it was actually less like a fart and more like a cry for help from a governor who can only steal jobs, not create them.
     The editorial ended with a quote from every progressive's heroine, the late, no-BS Texas icon Molly Ivins, about her state: "It's a low-tax, low-service state — so shoot us. The only depressing part is that, unlike Mississippi, we can afford to do better. We just don't."