Foxconn Always Was a Scam — Republicans and Gov Tony Evers Are Complicit Is Spectacular Scandal

Foxconn in Wisconsin is a
bi-partisan boondoggle. Tony
Evers joined Scott Walker
in the endgame: Foxconn stays,
Wisconsin loses. News that
Foxconn will build no
factories leaves pols gasping
for spin, lies.

Wisconsin pols are silent

Madison, Wisconsin — Foxconn won't be building any manufacturing centers in Wisconsin, reports Reuters in an exclusive, (Bloomberg, NBCNews).

"In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory. You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment," said Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn Chief Executive Terry Gou.

The news reveals a spectacular $Billion con that implicates every Republican in the state legislature, several Democrats including Gov. Tony Evers, and major Republican politicians including Paul Ryan and Donald Trump.

The political fall-out will be wide and unpredictable.

In June 2018 at the ceremonial groundbreaking in southeastern Wisconsin, Trump acclaimed the proposed Foxconn center as "the 8th wonder of the world," (CBS News). Foxconn CEO, Terry Gou, told Trump "off-the-record" that the company will triple its promised $10 billion investment in Wisconsin to $30 billion, Trump claimed, aka a lie (Associated Press).

Trump lied. Walker lied.

Tony Evers lied.

Evers ran a shameful pro-Foxconn campaign, implicitly promising to stick the state with $100s of millions of debt and repeatedly side-stepping questions about the legally dubious public subsidies and exemptions from state law for the pathologically dishonest Taiwanese corporation.

A typical Tony Evers mush position on Foxconn is from Sept 2018 in the Racine Journal-Times:

Evers did not say he would undo or change the agreement with Foxconn if elected governor.

'We can, and we should, compel them to be good corporate citizens,' Evers said. 

That worked out well.

Evers could not be reached for comment, reports Reuters.

Of course not. Evers is too busy holding Foxconn's feet to the fire, as he dishonestly termed his pro-Foxconn position.

Those families whose homes and land were stolen to benefit Foxconn?

It's likely Tony Evers will have nothing to say about them,; he never has before

From August 2018 on Wisconsin families who don't matter to Tony Evers and Scott Walker:

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.

Excellent opp for @Tony4WI to put some light between @ScottWalker and @Tony4WI on #Foxconn. Get behind this couple. We should stand a 100-percent with these folks. #wisen #wiright #wipolitics #wiunion #wigov #wiresist @ACLU @peoplepower #wigov #mkedems #VoteBlueWI #BlueWave https://t.co/VOdg7PH9aC

— Michael Leon (@mal644) August 30, 2018