Showing posts with label Kriss Marion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kriss Marion. Show all posts

Oct 18, 2018

Foxconn in Wisconsin Is Unpopular, Destructive and Supported by Gov Scott Walker and Dem Nominee for Gov, Tony Evers

Scott Walker's pro-Foxconn campaign ads are everywhere
in Wisconsin, and face little opposition.
Update: Tony Evers sticks to his make sure [Foxconn is] the best corporate citizen as possible, ... we're going to hold their feet to fire nonsequitur, (Madison.com).
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Madison, Wisconsin — Gov. Scott Walker (R) knows how to put on a show.

That Scott Walker's show is a con is no deterrent for Wisconsin's most accomplished liar since Joe McCarthy.

A political charlatan, Walker apparently thinks he can use the Foxconn boondoggle as a major stepping stone for reelection to turn Wisconsin into a political sewer.

Walker may be correct in this assessment.

The Democratic Party nominee, Tony Evers, decided not to run against Foxconn as Evers offers blather to the Wisconsin people of whom is demanded $Billions to be directed to the Taiwanese bad guy of corporate bad guys.

Even as hard-hitting anti-Foxconn ads blast State Sen. Howard Markleim (R-Spring Green, Wisconsin), in a critical legislative race in southwestern Wisconsin, Tony Evers' Foxconn-related comments range from mush to silence.

For national political observers asking about Wisconsin, the state has not turned red the last eight years.

It's just that the Democratic Party that has turned incompetent, enamored of groupthink as a consultant-based Party, out-of-touch with the people.

The Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and Scott Walker-hailed Foxconn is merely exhibit one for the conclusion Democrats are often kind-of-stupid here.

The prevailing political winds and innovative rights-based, municipal policy that help Democratic-leaning voters aside, Tony Evers may be responsible for blowing a political lay-up in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin gubernatorial race is a toss-up; it should not be.

Below is an ad from the Greater Wisconsin Committee against the odious State Sen. Howard Markleim (R-Spring Green, Wisconsin).

Such ads should be running statewide, against Scott Walker and every Republican on the ballot.

Democratic Party and progressive pols and writers who think Tony Evers should be offering pabulum on Foxconn are simply, 100-percent, absolutely and incontrovertibly wrong.

Aug 29, 2016

Kriss Marion: Big Ag Hits Tourism, Communities, and Way of Life

By Kriss Marion
Wisconsin State Farmer
USA Today Network - Wisconsin

Wake up Wisconsin! We are very much on the road to sacrificing our state’s primary natural resources — clean lakes, streams and wells and the beauty they support — for the opportunity to beat California at the dairy game it has already lost by ruining its water. Why are so many mega-dairy developers being lured to Wisconsin from California, Nebraska and Iowa? Because the cost of doing business there has risen as water woes have increased. Do Wisconsin citizens really want to be the cheapest state in which to operate industrial agriculture?

I encourage all of you who love living here to keep your eyes open for the ways in which Wisconsin’s primary industries, Agriculture and Tourism, are being pitted against each other by industrial ag interests, rather than working together to coexist with each other and with the frogs, birds and bugs that make our landscape so vitally alive. Perhaps the most tragic result of the takeover of Wisconsin lands by corporate interests, and possibly the most ultimately damaging to our shared culture, is the accelerated loss of the family-scaled farms and dairies which have defined our lifestyle and captured our imagination for decades.