President Obama coming to Austin Thursday [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

Austin —

President Barack Obama will travel to Austin Thursday for events on the economy, according to a White House official.

The president and First Lady Michelle Obama were in Dallas last week for the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, a fundraiser and the memorial service at Baylor University in Waco for those who perished in the fertilizer plant explosion in West.

The president last visited Austin in May of 2011 for a pair of fund-raising events – one at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater, and another more intimate affair at a private home west of Austin.

Obama will be traveling into the wheelhouse of the “Texas miracle,” which Republican officials from Gov. Rick Perry on down credit to the state’s low-tax, low-regulatory, pro-business regime, a stark contrast, they say, to the way the federal government, particularly under a Democratic president, operates.

More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional/president-obama-coming-to-austin-thursday/nXgHc/ .