Axelrod: Oil and military, not Perry, boosted Texas jobs

President Obama’s senior campaign adviser David Axelrod is seeking to undercut Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) jobs record in the Lone Star State as Perry prepares to jump into the presidential race.

Perry is readying to make his record on job growth a pillar of his campaign. But here’s Axelrod on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday:

“There's a specific reason that Texas has done so well, and that's because the oil industry has done so well in the last few years, and the military has grown because of the challenges that we have had overseas,” Axelrod said. “He's been the beneficiary of things that he had very little to do with.”