'I'm shocked that Mt. Pleasant, nestled in the fake Racine County region of Wisconsin Valley will not be home to an electric vehicle plant' -
Foxconn to buy Ohio plant to make electric vehicles, future for Wisconsin facility uncertain
said absolutely no one - as the financially and environmentally costly four-year+ Foxconn fantasy fiasco detailed at this archive slogs on:
A Foxconn Fever primer[Updated continuously from June, 2017]
This 400-item archive has tracked, explained and provided context and commentary for Wisconsin's publicly-awarded and record-breaking package of environmental favors, legal privileges and $4.5 billion in state and local funds to subsidize and assist a Taiwan-based Foxconn factory in rural Racine County, Wisconsin.
Wow! Who could have seen that coming?
ReplyDeleteNow that Rebecca (“I caught COVID at a church fundraiser”) Kleefisch is officially running for governor, look for her to blame the Foxconn Failure on Tony Evers. Something like, “This Ohio deal never would’ve happened if Scott Walker and I were running things.” As if Walker—who never wanted her to begin with—ever let her run anything.
ReplyDelete@Minnesconsin Tom: Remembering that Walker didn't want Kleefisch as his running mate: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2014/10/07/murphys-law-the-lt-governor-nobody-wanted/
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ReplyDeleteAnd then there's this...
https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/wisconsin-three-percenters-group-defends-itself-republican-lawmaker-defends-visit/article_9060427a-109d-51ef-b31b-b4977437fd0f.html
The would-be first gentleman hangs out with interesting people. And exactly why was it that he quit the legislature again?
Foxconn has squeezed everything they can out of Wisconsin. It's time to move the grift to greener pastures.
ReplyDeleteThis feels like the correct answer. They are finding the next desperate suckers
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ReplyDeleteThis debacle is nicely summarized by A Better Mount Pleasant - Four Years of Foxconn
http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_docs/files/100421abmp.pdf
"A Better Mt. Pleasant is a nonpartisan, community organization dedicated to advancing a fair,
accountable and transparent local government in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin."
While it should not be forgotten that Boss Vos and Rebecca Kleefisch are totally complicit in this cosmic grift, the local government and media cannot hide from the part they played.
I think Foxconn wants a backup facility in place incase war breaks out between Taiwan and China. They don't actually want to use it, labor costs are too much higher here for them. But they got the Wisconsin government to help fund their backup plan. You can't trust Foxconn, we knew this long before the current fiasco.
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