Aug 30, 2018

Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin Couple Stand Alone Against Foxconn

Rodney and Catherine Jensen have land.
Foxconn wants the Jensens' land.
Everyone from Scott Walker to Tony
Evers to the village of Mount Pleasant
sides with Foxconn. Who will
stand with the Jensens?
A Wisconsin couple is getting their land stolen from under them to benefit a foreign corporation.

The thieves are the village of Mount Pleasant acting on behalf of the Foxconn Technology Group.

The village is lying to residents, Rodney and Catherine Jensen, designating their land as blighted  — broadly defined as "'substandard' or 'deteriorated' land that is detrimental to public health or safety," (Beachy, Inside Track, State Bar of Wisconsin).

This deception is perpetrated to serve the Taiwanese corporation.

The Jensens think they have been wronged by Foxconn, and by their local municipality.

So the Jensens filed suit in August in their fight to keep their land against designs on their property by Foxconn.

Reports Michael Burke in the Racine Journal-Times:

The Jensens’ lawsuit, filed by Madison attorney Erik Olsen of Eminent Domain Services, states that the couple’s property is 'not blighted by any definition.'

It also contends the village is attempting to take their property in order to facilitate the Foxconn Technology Group project 'and for the direct benefit of Foxconn.' 

This attempted theft of land seems an outrage in an election year for governor.

Yet, the two major candidates, Tony Evers and Gov Scott Walker, house no mention of this theft in progress on their campaign websites.

Evers and Walker's position is Foxconn stays, Wisconsin families lose.

It appears in the political arena, families like the Jensens have no standing, and are not considered players.

When $billions of subsidies and special perks are granted Foxconn, who speaks for the Jensens?

Noone.

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