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Perry Jobs Plan May Get Partial Reveal Friday

A spokesman says MSNBC that Gov. Rick Perry will discuss a "major pillar" of his jobs plan this Friday morning in Pittsburgh.
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A spokesman says MSNBC that Gov. Rick Perry will discuss a "major pillar" of his jobs plan this Friday morning in Pittsburgh.

The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Gov. Rick Perry may be unveiling what's being called a "major pillar" of his jobs plan this Friday in Pittsburgh.

Ray Sullivan, the Perry campaign's communications director told MSNBC's Chuck Todd this morning that the speech wouldn't be the full reveal, but he said the speech would be a "significant policy rollout." He said it concern how job creation, energy independence and "how to reduce our dependence on hostile countries supplying energy and oil to our country."

Ian Crawford joined KUT as News Editor in 2008, after spending over four years as a reporter/anchor at KLBJ Radio in Austin. He began his broadcasting career while still in high school in Southern Oregon. During high school and college at the University of Oregon, he worked at times as a reporter, news anchor, sports play-by-play reporter, music host and commercial producer before moving to Texas in 2003.