Tony Evers Is Silent on Foxconn Four Weeks from Absentee Voting Start

In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott
Walker's discredited claim
that 13,000 new jobs will
materialize with a $4 billion
public investment is meeting
with incredulity. Walker's 2018
campaign, Friends of Scott
Walker, is pitching the
scheme dubbed the
Fox Con. Dem Party
nominee for gov,
Tony Evers, refuses
to take a clear position.

Off your ass, Tony Evers

Madison, Wisconsin — We're four weeks out to the first absentee voters casting their ballots in the Gov. Scott Walker-Tony Evers race in the Wisconsin General Election.

Democratic Party nominee for governor, Tony Evers, still will not issue a public statement against the Foxconn-Wisconsin contract, negotiated by Republicans, for Republicans and against working families.

The Foxconn boondoggle does not play well among most voters. It ought not, it's lunacy.

Foxconn is a winner for Democrats but the Democratic Party nominee for governor, Tony Evers, retains his posture there is nothing to be done to stop the foreign company from polluting and depleting our water, and destroying our wetlands, saying we can only wish Foxconn to become good corporate citizens.

Meanwhile, Gov. Scott Walker (R) ballyhoos the $ billions in subsidies to Foxconn.

Reports Arthur Thomas in the BizTimes in mid-August: "Evers’ campaign declined to comment on the election results in the context of Foxconn."

We have the sitting Republican governor running for reelection, Donald Trump and legislative Republicans lying through their teeth about Foxconn. Evers won't say a word

Evers is spineless.

Walker is already up running Foxconn ads around the state and the internet.

Foxconn still polls badly, and a libertarian candidate, Phil Anderson, is drawing seven percent among registered voters who don't like the idea of $ billion subsidies to private, foreign interests, (Marquette Law School Poll).

Here's Phil Anderson on Foxconn and the Economy: "We oppose all efforts of State government to pick winners and losers in the economy."

Anderson is not going win seven percent in the general election.

But only an idiot or the Democratic Party nominee for governor believes Anderson is not capable of picking up enough votes to swing a close election.

Most every Democratic Party voter hates Foxconn and wants the contract torn up.

As Tony Evers silently runs away from Scott Walker's Soviet-style industrial planning, few are willing to speak up and urge Evers to do the right thing by Wisconsin families.

For the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, the go-to move on Foxconn is noone breathe, noone dare speak and fall in line behind milquetoast Tony — because when in the last eight years has the Democratic Party ever made a political miscalculation?

Here's some advice from Bloomberg on Foxconn from last August (2017), for the edification of Evers:

Such incentives [as $3 billion, (now $4 billion) in public funds] are generally an awful way to lure jobs -- expensive, inefficient and fraught with unintended consequences.

They can prompt costly bidding wars between states and impede other budget priorities. They have little effect on employment, growth or wages. They may induce unwise borrowing.

Companies often come back again and again, as blackmailers tend to, seeking yet more blandishments. And nothing stops them from walking away when times get tough.

States are also apt to loosen the rules. Among other perks, Foxconn won’t need to obtain the state permits ordinarily required to discharge dredged material into local wetlands.

Nor will it have to submit to standard environmental-impact studies. Such exceptions make for irrational public policy.

One might argue, as politicians often do, that even bad jobs underwritten by taxpayers are preferable to no jobs at all. But that’s wrongheaded: If those tax dollars were freed to find more productive uses, they’d boost efficiency and growth elsewhere in the economy -- and thus create more jobs.

Tony Evers, you're really screwing up, man.