Atty Matt Flynn Still Lighting up Foxconn, and Timid Democratic Party Response

 New Wisconsin Gov Tony
Evers (D) is still silent
after news of the Foxconn
jobs pull-out.

Madison, Wisconsin — Gov Tony Evers (D) maintains his pro-Foxconn position, but there is a conspiracy of silence among Wisconsin Democrats to avoid mentioning this betrayal.

Milwaukee attorney Matt Flynn didn't get the memo, or if he did, he doesn't give a shit, and puts people over Party.

Flynn, a private citizen who gets paid nothing, is spending hours warning about the Foxconn boondoggle, fielding questions from the Wisconsin people.

Evers avoids the media like a minus-50 degree night in Wisconsin.

News from Reuters that Foxconn is pulling out planned manufacturing jobs draws no public reaction from Tony 'Mush' Evers.

So, Flynn is drawing a roadmap on how to pursue litigation. It's unclear if Evers is listening.

From Matt Flynn this morning:

Credit rating agency Moody's issued a cautionary note on Racine & Mt. Pleasant Foxconn debt. These municipalities are on the hook for more than $900m. They have already borrowed $355m, and have spent $190m, mostly for land acquisition to benefit Foxconn. https://t.co/PYkEO4bnHQ

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

They have modest tax bases that can't support this kind of debt, especially if Foxconn bails as it did in Pennsylvania.

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

Foxconn initially promised 13k jobs at an average wage of $53K to manufacture TV screens. They said they would build a $10b plant. They now say it will only be a research park of 1,000 employees staffed mostly by engineers. Chinese engineers count as employees under the contract.

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

Foxconn will not build a $10 billion plant. https://t.co/BNbGxjvU97

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

They have demanded rights to the IP of Wisconsin companies who partner with them. They are a Chinese outfit that found a pigeon - @ScottWalker and the Republicans in the legislature - to spend $4.5 billion to subsidize their heist of Wisconsin IP. https://t.co/1f4viqxC0Y

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

The typical Madison feline, timid response will not be enough.

We should not "settle" this by giving Foxconn a slight haircut, say down to $3 billion, and thank them for it.

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

There is a duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing implied by law in all Wisconsin contracts. Foxconn has breached both the contract and their duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing.

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

1 final note: even if the ultimate result is a settlement, it will be at a trivial amount & only after litigation. I have never known of a company, even companies w/ better reputations than Foxconn, that agreed to pay or give up a lot of $ without going a few rounds in the ring.

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) February 1, 2019

Gov Evers Maintains Silence on Foxconn Pull-out as Atty Matt Flynn Blasts Republicans and Inaction

Wisconsin citizens need to
poke Gov Tony Evers (D)
with a stick because this
guy looks like he spent
the last week outside, lying
down, being bit by animals.
Did Evers read the news
about Foxconn's jobs pull-out?

Bait-and-Switch $Billion Boondoggle Draws Not One Word from New Wisconsin Governor

Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) and Republicans are doing most of the talking following news Foxconn reneged on an agreement to site a manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin.

What was hailed 18 months ago as the start of "a Midwestern manufacturing renaissance" (NYT) is now just another lie politicians and corporate execs tell the public when they take massive public subsidies.

Following the Reuters blockbuster exclusive on Foxconn, Republicans yesterday came out of the gate fast, repeating an old lie saying Foxconn's decision was made because of "uncertainty" with the new Gov Tony Evers (D) administration. But not even Foxconn touches that line.

What is certain is the silence from Tony Evers — dead silence. As in not one word from Evers.

No Evers appearing before a press conference, saying 'ask me anything.'

This asks the question, did Tony Evers spend the last 72 hours outside, lying down in the Wisconsin deep freeze? Someone should poke his body with a stick and see if we get any sign of life:

C'mon Tony. Wake up; you okay? Foxconn is pulling out the promised 1,000s of blue collar jobs, dude! What are your orders?

- Hold their feet to the fire! Make Foxconn good corporate citizens.

What Wisconsin has from Tony Evers is one tweet from the state Dept. of Administration reading:

In the coming weeks, the Evers Administration will continue to commit time, resources, and personnel to ensure that the interests of Wisconsin workers and taxpayers are protected and promoted by our approach to the Foxconn project.

In the coming weeks, the Evers Administration will continue to commit time, resources, and personnel to ensure that the interests of Wisconsin workers and taxpayers are protected and promoted by our approach to the Foxconn project. pic.twitter.com/3pBhRBTRfq

— Wisconsin DOA (@WisconsinDOA) January 30, 2019

These Tony Evers guys are on the case. The Associated Press reports also that a top Evers aide, Joel Brennan, says he was "surprised" by the Foxconn story.

That's little comfort for a state already on the hook for $100s of millions no matter what the Taiwanese corporation decides is best for its shareholders.

I asked Jake Edwards, a Wisconsin economic-political writer, how much Wisconsin was on the hook for. Edwards replied in rough calculations:

Depends if Foxconn gets 1,000 people working on the project by end of this year (not necessarily in Racine Co).

If they get that, my quick count is

15% of facility cost for 2/7 of total subsidy (estimated at $386 mil)

$28 mil for job credits
$912 mil in local subsidies and infrastructure
$400 mil in cost and debt for I-94
$130 mil to upgrade local roads into state highways (which took away $90 mil from other state projects)
$150 mil in sales tax cuts for construction materials

That comes close to $2 billion. And Foxconn says they can't make it even with all this help?

Tony Evers resembles an undulating mass that when taking shape congeals into a form indistinguishable from a hastily constructed snowball, the kind made from powdered snow, and just as revealing of the administration's position on the Foxconn-Wisconsin contract.

Who is defending Wisconsin's interest now that Tony Evers is out of commission?

Attorney Matt Flynn took to Resistance Radio yesterday, Jan 30, and offered a harsh assessment of Foxconn, Republicans and Tony Evers' performance thus far.

One Wisconsin Now is hitting every lie emitted by Republicans.

In the absence of Tony Evers, Matt Flynn's analyses, specific challenge to Republican
Speaker Vos and Evers on social media, and calling out Wisconsin Republicans for their numerous lies about Foxconn's siphoning of Wisconsin continue:

I've read the contract, but apparently you, @repvos, and @ScottWalker haven't - or you wouldn't continue to push it.

They've already benefited from infrastructure work at taxpayer expense. And why is there a clawback provision if they aren't getting money before they perform? https://t.co/Xm3C7Xgnup

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) January 31, 2019

To protect Wisconsin, Flynn is advocating a complex legal strategy against Foxconn in multiple courts by multiple parties that includes a private lawsuit on Constitutional grounds, and a public lawsuit by Wisconsin officials for breach of contract.

Flynn made his comments on Resistance Radio (Devil's Advocate radio) yesterday.

@ForwardWFlynn now on @devilradio:
What happens now? What options do #WI have to clean up the #Foxconn deal?
1) Private lawsuit on Constitutional grounds
2) State lawsuit based on breach of contract.

— AnonyMissBadger (@AnonyMissBadger) January 30, 2019

@ForwardWFlynn now on @devilradio:@ScottWalker wanted #Wisconsin to believe he was a businessman, making this deal as a businessman. He was not a businessman. He was a chicken walking into a negotiation with Colonel Sanders.#Foxconn #WI

— AnonyMissBadger (@AnonyMissBadger) January 30, 2019

Said Flynn in part, taking questions on Resistance Radio (Hour Two of two hours with Flynn on the Devil's Advocate) on the heavily criticized Foxconn contract that draws national ridicule:

This is not a precise [Foxconn-Wisconsin] contract. If you read it, the claw-back is very ambiguous: 'Use best efforts' and all this kind of stuff. And the political establishment is supporting them [Foxconn]. And I think that's wrong.

This is not a crisply worded contract. The people that negotiated it had no business doing it, and they didn't have the ability to do it.

Asked if to explain how the paucity of job creation and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's authority to amend the contract ought to concern the Wisconsin people, Flynn said:

The Republican Party and WEDC [Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation] don't have a clue on how to explain this contract because they got taken to the cleaners.

So, I'll explain it just right now. And that is that a very, very minimal production of jobs, that could be Chinese engineers, will trigger a large and disproportionate [public] payment. That's very concerning.

The second thing that I want to say is about the amendment. The reason for the lameduck session to take this out of Tony Evers' hands, until September, was precisely to manipulate and defend breaches of contract against us.

The Republican Party will injure this state to benefit their donors, and to appease their large donors so they don't run Primaries against them. ...

At some point somebody in this administration has got to get off the dime and start action for breach of contract. Period, end of story. ...

Mount Pleasant and Racine are on the hook for over $900-million, $900-million! The tax base down there can't support $90-million; it's a small tax base.

And the people of Racine; everybody says, 'oh, they want this thing, [Foxconn].' They don't want this thing. I saw the citizens at the Mount Pleasant Board meeting. I've spoken in Racine. And nobody wants this thing.

I think that the people down there that voted for it, Democrats, made a mistake thinking that that's what they wanted.

But we're all Americans, we 're all Wisconsinites. 

The Chinese come over here, try to get our intellectual property —  we're not putting up with it.

If Matt Flynn, a private citizen who gets paid nothing, is spending hours and hours warning about the Foxconn boondoggle, and fielding questions from the Wisconsin people, why in the hell is the sitting governor, Tony Evers, not out doing the same?

Republicans Renew Attack Against Matt Flynn in Wisconsin Gov Race

Matt Flynn at NextGen America forum for
Democratic Party candidates in July 2018

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — The Republican daily, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), ran a banner headline this week for a piece fed by state Republicans against gubernatorial candidate, Matt Flynn, who is running for the Democratic Party nomination.

The latest in a string of Republican troll attacks is bogus as Republican attacks tend to be.

These political hits are revealing of whom the Republicans and their Party press fear in the general election campaign: Matt Flynn, a Milwaukee progressive.

Matt Flynn stands alone among the eight candidates for the Democratic nomination in vowing to litigate Foxconn out of Wisconsin.

Foxconn is so unpopular in the northern two-thirds of the state that Gov. Scott Walker (R) refuses Foxconn photo-ops.

Not just Republicans and Foxconn fear Flynn.

State Democratic Party insiders who rigged the 2016 nomination for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders are working an inside game against Flynn, who is often irreverent toward Party flunkies, and rightfully so.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has done nothing to discourage the stealth campaign against Flynn.

Misplaced in Party machinations is the Lost Decade (2010-2019), an unmitigated disaster for the Wisconsin people.

The Wisconsin disaster required the small number of incompetent and patronage-happy Democratic Party followers to abandon the people, leaving future generations in the lurch, many of whom ridicule Democrats as a force for change.

Take a trip to the Meadowood Shopping Mall on the southwest side of Madison and ask young and minority folks for whom they are voting.

Most folks whom this writer has contacted the last five years are not voting.

Matt Flynn pitches for support at
NextGen America forum for Democratic
Party candidates in July 2018

Expressing political sentiment by fleeing the ballot box is music to Republicans who maintain their voter obstruction work against the vulnerable segments of the population who want to throw in the towel.

At a NextGen America forum for Wisconsin Democratic Party candidates for governor this week, Matt Flynn outlined an agenda demanding tuition relief, legalizing marijuana, implementing mass use of the governor's pardon power and a comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system.

Thanks @nextgenamerica WI #youthvote for a great forum! We discussed everything from legalizing marijuana, the governor's pardon power, providing 2yrs free tuition at Wisconsin colleges and universities, and why a hot dog IS a sandwich (if it's in a bun). https://t.co/mm4lsqo7yG pic.twitter.com/s70ZCyoVEF

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) July 24, 2018

If you're in Wisconsin, consider: When is the last time you've read anything from a Democratic Party of Wisconsin member publicly questioning their Party's performance during the Lost Decade?

From 2007-2010 Wisconsin Democrats had gubernatorial and legislative control of state government. But when Democrats considered legal use of medical marijuana, for example, the Party allowed one Democratic state senator to block a vote on the popular reform.

There was no strategic reformist legislation passed. Rather, the Democratic Party, as with insiders today, follows the golden rule of Democrats: Groupthink rules and don't rock the boat.

The Dems could have passed at least some manner of legalization of marijuana, reforms against gerrymandering, strengthened the rights of organized labor, locked in funding for the UW System and public schools, codified local control of government, reformed the criminal justice system, strengthened voting rights, among a host of initiatives not dreamed of among Party bureaucrats.

It's not like the writing was not on the wall spelling out what Republicans would do upon taking power. But few Democrats think, even less act.

Republicans do think and act in the current campaign for governor.

The GOP is not trolling Tony Evers, the white bureaucrat from east-central Wisconsin who will animate young and minority voters with all the passion generated by a baseball score from last Spring.

The GOP and Paul Ryan are trolling Randy Bryce, Democratic candidate for Ryan's seat, and Flynn.

August 14 Wisconsin Partisan Primary

There are too many X factors for anyone to make a data-drivien prediction on who wins the Democratic Party nomination for governor.

Early voting and registration in Madison are picking up and will accelerate in late July. Informed sources say they expect a 45-percent turnout in Madison, thanks to the municipal government's pro-voter initiatives. Other municipalities continue to contact Madison City Hall for tips, after being pushed by their local voting rights workers.

Does Madison Mayor and candidate for governor, Paul Soglin benefit from this massive turnout relative to the rest of the state? No doubt Soglin will benefit, but the question is to what degree, and speculation elicits wild disparities among observers.

Among a strong field of candidates, I predict post-air wars that Matt Flynn overtakes Tony Evers, and the Democratic  establishment takes another shot on their collective chin, not that this bothers Party bureaucrats who are still lined up at the trough, like so many pigs and cows at a factory farm.

Scott Walker is vulnerable.

One Gov Candidate Vows to Terminate Massive Foxconn Subsidy and Free-to-Pollute Guarantees

In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott
Walker's discredited claim
that 13,000 new jobs will
materialize with a $3 billion
public investment is meeting
with incredulity. Walker's 2018
campaign, Friends of Scott
Walker, is now pitching the
scheme dubbed the
Fox Con.

The election of Matt Flynn as Wisconsin governor would result in litigation against Foxconn placing Donald Trump and Republicans in an untenable Foxconn-first position against an elected state government

Analysis - Madison, Wisconsin — The election of the leading Foxconn foe running for the nomination for governor in the Democratic Party Primary would mean the greatest industrial-policy litigation against a foreign corporation in American history, Matt Flynn promises.

Such litigation would highlight the political vulnerability of pro-Foxconn policy that could potentially obliterate Trump's faux America-first appeal.

Alone among Wisconsin gubernatorial candidates, Matt Flynn has vowed to litigate the Foxconn-Wisconsin contract with an objective of terminating all public monetary subsidies and specific contractual exceptions to environmental and zoning state and local laws for Foxconn.

The latest public polling data on Wisconsin's $ 4-billion-plus subsidy to Foxconn shows strong plurality sentiment against the biggest give-away of state monies to a foreign corporation in American history, (Marquette University Law School Poll (July 18, 2018)).

Reads the poll analysis by Charles Franklin:

Views of [Wisconsin residents on] the Foxconn incentive package and the effects of the new manufacturing center are little changed from the June poll. Forty-six percent think the state is paying more than the Foxconn plant is worth, while 39 percent think the plant will provide at least as much value as the state is investing in the plant.

Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Donald Trump have hyped Foxconn [Foxconn Technology Co Ltd., aka Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd.] in Wisconsin past the point of credulity.

Last month at the ceremonial groundbreaking in southeastern Wisconsin, Trump acclaimed the proposed Foxconn center as "the 8th wonder of the world," (CBS News). Last year, 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).

Foxconn at the Ballot

Will this unprecedented public give-away to a Taiwanese corporation be able to pass muster at the ballot box?

Foxconn may indeed succeed in the mid-term general election voting because of the diffuse nature of grassroots opposition and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

One anti-Foxconn Facebook site, No to the Fox Con run by Madison resident Allen Ruff and boasting 100s of activist members, declares candidate positions of gubernatorial candidate are the same, a patently false statement. Ruff further declares that candidate positions on Foxconn should not inform analysis of anti-Foxconn commentary and public information, another ludicrous position.

But the site highlights a problem. Many residents would prefer to express anti-Foxconn sentiment, while ignoring the high-stakes strategy needed to produce the desired results.

Last Summer, Gov. Scott Walker (R) was able to jam Foxconn through the state legislature because so many people tuned out of the magnitude and costs of the project. No referendum was offered or demanded.

We can't now wish Foxconn away. Alone among Wisconsin candidates for governor, Matt Flynn proposes to terminate the contract through a complex litigation strategy. This is going to be the greatest Wisconsin industrial-policy case in state history pitting the Taiwanese corporation v. Wisconsin, if Flynn wins the nomination and the general election.

So would Donald Trump, the first cheerleader for Foxconn, then double-down on his support for the Wisconsin-Foxconn deal in favor of Taiwan?

This would be politically disastrous.  Unfortunately, inflicting political disaster onto Trump and Scott Walker is not always high on Wisconsin Democratic-progressive strategic missions or on a list of things to do.

Foxconn-O-Meter Measures Opposition to Co Black Hole by Democratic Gov Hopefuls

Candidates for the nomination of the
Democratic Party for Wisconsin governor
are ranked by opposition to Foxconn
in new press release.

Madison, Wisconsin — Gubernatorial candidate, Matt Flynn, is the acknowledged anti-Foxconn voice in the Democratic Primary.

It's not controversial, as Tony Evers' evolving position is now Foxconn is here to stay.

From the Matt Flynn campaign comes another Foxconn press release dated July 19. The release is reproduced below.

The release highlights the growing rift between candidates Matt Flynn and Tony Evers.

Evers insisted at a debate last week that Foxconn cannot be fought and the company is here to stay, as well as the $4.5 billion Wisconsin taxpayers are expected to cough up.

Flynn is unequivocal that he will fight Foxconn and terminate the contract.

Flynn and Paul Soglin lead the anti-Foxconn index. Evers brings up the bottom.

From the Flynn campaign.

Of the Eight Democrats Challenging Walker, Flynn is by Far the Strongest in Opposition to Foxconn

(Milwaukee) – All eight Democrats challenging Scott Walker say they are opposed to the $4.5 billion corporate welfare giveaway to Foxconn, but there are differences between them on what to do about it. The “Foxconn-O-Meter” shows where every candidate ranks in opposition to the Foxconn deal, based on their approach to stopping it.

Of all eight Democrats, only Matt Flynn has released a detailed strategy for stopping the Foxconn deal. Most candidates have released little-to-no details about their approach to Foxconn, only saying they’re against it. Two candidates – including Tony Evers – say they will not even try to stop Foxconn.

“The Foxconn deal is the worst economic development plan in history,” said Flynn. “It is also unconstitutional. As governor, I will bring litigation to rescind the contract on Day One. Foxconn can come here, but they will have to follow our laws and they will not get our tax dollars. No other candidate is as committed to stopping the deal.” #

Matt Flynn Is on Air First in Wisconsin Democratic Primary, Bashes Foxconn

Matt Flynn hits Scott Walker and Foxconn in first TV ad
among Democratic Party candidates for governor.

Madison, Wisconsin — Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn is on the air with the first TV spot, promising to stop Foxconn with litigation, Matthew DeFour reports.

Flynn has promised to terminate the Foxconn contract with a complex legal attack.

The Foxconn agreement has been criticized for running afoul of the Wisconsin Constitution and state statutes that would likely present legal problems for the Republican-made deal between the state and Taiwanese corporation, (Facebook, No to the Foxconn).

Pre-primary scientific and online polls show Flynn running second to Tony Evers. Pre-primary polling is generally regarded as unreliable prior to the start of TV spots.

Early voting has begun in the Aug. 14 election. Multiple early-voting sites are expected to open in late July in Madison and Milwaukee.

The Flynn spot, One Candidate, introduces the candidate, and points out that Flynn, alone among the eight Democratic candidates for governor, vows to stop the widely unpopular Foxconn with litigation.

Reports DeFour:

In first WI Dem gubernatorial TV ad, @ForwardWFlynn highlights Foxconn, his military record and Foxconn, an issue Republicans once thought would be a huge win for them.https://t.co/0gwz71YSQK

— Matthew DeFour (@WSJMattD4) July 18, 2018

The Matt Flynn TV spot is below:

Wisconsin Dem Guv Candidates Debate — Tony Evers Bashes Students, Stands Alone on Key Campaign Issues

Wisconsin candidates for the Democratic Party
nomination for governor appeared at forum at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on July 12, 2018

Campaign Analysis

Public Schools Chief Takes GOP Positions Far to Right of Democratic Field

Madison, Wisconsin — The eight candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for governor appeared at a forum last night and made news as one candidate backed higher tuition for technical students, said Foxconn is here to stay, days after panning marijuana legalization and opposing mass pardoning of non-violent 'offenders.'

On the campaign trail, seven candidates for the nomination have blasted skyrocketing mass incarceration in Wisconsin and declining state support for college and technical schools.

Tony Evers has defied the field, dismissing calls for free tuition for technical schools and rejecting candidate calls for marijuana legalization and mass gubernatorial pardons, (Keith, Fox6Now-Milwaukee).

At last night's debate held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Evers rejected a popular proposal that technical college students get free tuition for two years, delivering an unexpected slap.

"I think there should be some skin in the game," said Evers, suggesting tech students are not invested in their education and training under the tuition-relief proposal, (Fannon, WKOW-TV-Madison).

Earlier this week, Evers, the Superintendent of the Dept. of Public Instruction, continued his move to the political right on the issues of legalizing marijuana and mass pardoning, a tact garnering derision from candidate Matt Flynn, who called Evers "Republican-lite."

Flynn has repeatedly called for "legalizing marijuana and pardoning people who are locked up for possessing the drug," (Keith, Fox6Now-Milwaukee).

Evers comes from small-town, overwhelmingly white east-central Wisconsin, where he served as superintendent of the Oakfield School district, carrying on the provincial culture of the region, a fact Evers attempts to obscure in his campaign website, (Meet Tony Evers).

Evers also differs from Flynn in particular and rest of field broadly on Foxconn.

Reports WisPoltics from the debate:

Later, Milwaukee attorney Matt Flynn pressed Evers on the [Foxconn] package. Declaring he would 'kill the Foxconn deal,' Flynn noted Evers has no experience as a commercial litigator and suggested he was just repeating what he’d heard from others.

Evers countered it was a 'horrible deal' and 'we’re giving them way too much.' He supported reworking the contract.

'The bottom line is we have to have a "plan B",' Evers said. 'I can’t sit up here and tell the people of Wisconsin, by the way, this isn’t going to happen. They’re already there. Since they’re already there, we have to make sure the people of Wisconsin are treated fairly.'

Flynn and the rest of the field's opposition to Foxconn, mass incarceration, and strangling student debt marks a contrast from the white man from Plymouth and Oakfield.

In #WIGov Dem Debate, Matt Flynn is asked about legalizing marijuana. His answer is “yes.” And he has a message for “cowboy judges” who give jail sentences for cannabis possession: “If you convict them @ 10 in the morning, I will pardon them @ 2 in the afternoon.” @ForwardWFlynn

— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) July 13, 2018

Foxconn in Wisconsin Remains $Billion Ghost Ship with an Uncomprehending New Governor at the Helm

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin—Publication of a feature piece on the Foxconn catastrophe in The Capital Times has renewed questions about the passivity of Gov Tony Evers (D) and his refusal to research and commence a civil suit against Foxconn.

Defeated Gov Scott Walker (R) negotiated this lunacy, but Walker and Evers' policy on Foxconn is identical.

Telling in the piece by Lawrence Tabak is the description of Evers on hearing news that promised manufacturing jobs were not in Wisconsin's future. Evers released a bizarre statement that failed to address the news that 13,000 promised jobs had vanished.

Instead, Evers muttered words that related to Foxconn messaging.

Writes Tabak:

[Evers] cited Foxconn’s lack of transparency and consistency, and promised that 'we’ll continue to encourage it.' A touch of frustration came through when he added that there was 'no limit to the skepticism if the messaging isn’t consistent.'

So, even with 13,000 jobs at stake, Tony Evers offered reporters in late January an inane statement about encouraging clear messaging and promising to become skeptical in the absence of clear messaging.

Matt Flynn, a veteran litigator and frequent critic of Foxconn, is publicly pointing out the inadequacy of Walker and Evers' approach to the complex contract between Foxconn and Wisconsin.

why isn't the state suing to end the contract now for Foxconn's breach? Why should Wisconsin taxpayers foot the bill for billions in the budget going to Foxconn, when instead we could fund the @UWSystem and public education?

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) March 6, 2019

It's unclear if Evers is listening or even understands the Foxconn contract.

There is very little chance that Foxconn will build ANY plant in Wisconsin. But Racine and Mt. Pleasant are obligated to spend more than $900 MM on the project even if NO jobs result. Why? Why doesn't our State stop this immediately?https://t.co/D4D3jTr2ZQ

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) March 7, 2019

Matt Flynn Hits Factory Farms Again, Wants Community Control

Madison, Wisconsin — Matt Flynn, candidate for the nomination of the Democratic Party primary for governor, continued his campaign message for clean water and local control today.

In June, Flynn became the first and remains the only candidate criticizing the corrupt Wisconsin Supreme Court decision green-lighting a proposed massive factory farm in central Wisconsin.

Note Flynn today:

I'll restore local control so we can stop CAFOs, We must save our state's greatest agriculture industry, and help family farms. https://t.co/OL40Wg4kev via @WPR #WIVotes #wispolitics

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) August 12, 2018

How the votes of clean-water citizen action groups representing 10,000s of likely Democratic Primary voters will be distributed among the candidates for governor remains an unknown.

Each citizen action group is roughly the equivalent of a legislative candidate field operation all of which have working for years across the state.
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With respect to Foxconn, which will deplete and pollute our water, one candidate has come out with a vow to halt Foxconn in its tracks, and get this parasite out of Wisconsin:

Beating Walker. Stopping Foxconn. Let's #winwithflynn! https://t.co/fDXePmxrrA

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) August 13, 2018

Attorney Matt Flynn on Foxconn: Give Me the Go-ahead, Have Firm Ready to Litigate Against Foxconn Contract

Madison, Wisconsin — News that Foxconn is backing out of its commitment to site manufacturing operations in Wisconsin is sparking outrage across the state already hostile to the Taiwanese corporation to which Wisconsin is obligated to gift massive public subsidies, (Reuters, Bloomberg, NBCNews).

Matt Flynn, a Milwaukee attorney, is an outspoken opponent of Foxconn in Wisconsin.

Flynn announced this afternoon he is ready to launch complex litigation against Foxconn as soon as Gov Tony Evers (D) gives the go-ahead.

Tony Evers should really listen to his betters at this point.

Democrats can stop this through immediate litigation. I have a firm lined up and ready as soon as @GovEvers says go.

I'll be on @NewsTalk1510am @devilradio at 2:30pm with @dominicsalvia to discuss more. #FoxCONned https://t.co/JoFRth5IcE

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) January 30, 2019

Our state Democratic leaders, both in the legislature and the Administration, are the only people who can stop this through immediate litigation.

Time for the membership of the Democratic Party to make this clear through contact, resolutions and social media.

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) January 30, 2019

Under Pressure in Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin —Will we have a state tomorrow?

This is the question facing Wisconsin voters as they select a Democratic Party nominee for governor.

Even with strong anti-Trump and anti-Gov. Scott Walker (R) winds blowing through the Badger state, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin has a way of screwing up a Summer day.

The strongest candidate and only military veteran in the race is the progressive, Matt Flynn.

Naturally, Party insiders decided the most prudent course of action was to follow Scott Walker and launch a media campaign against Flynn. Lunacy, but not a surprise.

Other candidates for the Democratic nomination, especially Mahlon Mitchell and Paul Soglin, would likely do well against Walker, with the exception of Tony Evers from east-central Wisconsin, who would blow a general election race.

Evers is white-white, Republican-lite, and is vanishingly insignificant as a force for progressive change.

Evers of course has been pushed by the same bunch of Democratic Party geniuses who gave this state away to Scott Walker, Donald Trump, big ag and the Koch brothers.

Foxconn

Scott Walker is advertising heavily for Foxconn as a basis for his reelection.

Matt Flynn is vowing to launch the most massive industrial-policy litigation in state history to void the illegal Foxconn-Wisconsin contract.

Tony Evers vows Foxconn is here to stay.
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Voting Rights

After the election tomorrow, within weeks it is a good bet the Republican Wisconsin Dept of Justice will push the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to reverse recent legal voting rights victories, under the guise of electoral stability, clarity and integrity.

Enough of the Madison City Clerk's policy of assisting voters casting a ballot, Republicans say.

Just two years ago, early-voting lines ran blocks-long in the sole early-voting site in the city.

From 2016:

Line outside the City Clerk office during the first day of early voting in Madison. Photo by Michelle Stocker #madi… pic.twitter.com/zFYtkLPSZm

— The Capital Times (@CapTimes) September 26, 2016

Now, after the One Wisconsin Now v. Thomsen federal voting rights victory in 2016, Madison today has some 14 satellite, early-voting sites, and voters are turning out in record numbers.

Scott Walker and Republicans are not amused.

Wisconsin Is Perched Atop the Capitol as Election Day Comes Aug 14

Clean water activists in Saratoga, Wisconsin fight for
water and oppose the siting of a proposed factory farm.
Clean water activists statewide fear a future where
clean and safe lakes will become a memory, and vow
August 14, Election Day, as a milestone in taking
Wisconsin back from industrial interests allied
with religious Evangelicals and racists who tend
to cross-pollinate here.

Madison, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin midterm elections are held on Tuesday, Aug. 14.

The most significant result will be the winner of the nomination of the Democratic Party primary for governor.

The Democratic nominee will face Gov. Scott Walker (R), an arsonist who is destroying long traditions, institutions, community democracy, a world-class University system, voting rights, rivers, lakes and aquifers that have been actively preserved or built over generations, (NYT, The Progressive, Mal Contends).

The product of labor, intellect, time away from families, energy, entire lives and whole communities, Wisconsin as a state is poised at the very top of the capitol and if it falls this November, noone is confident the shattering is repairable.

These are the electoral stakes.

There has been citizen action and inspiring ferment the last several years rivaling the peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

But with every political step froward, the menace of groupthink, patronage, and narcissism embodied in Democratic Party of Wisconsin functionaries, aides and political operatives slimes the terrain, leaving behind a trail of Republican victories against families and communities.

As a group, Wisconsin democrats constitute the most maladroit bunch of political operatives and policymakers in state history.
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Whether citizen action, innovative municipal policy, campaign brilliance and powerful electoral tailwinds are sufficient to propel a Matt Flynn, Paul Soglin, Kathleen Vinehout, Kelda Roys or a Mahlon Mitchell to victory Tuesday may decide if the state of Wisconsin continues to exist.

Make no mistake, Nov. 6 could signal the long-feared exodus of intellectuals, writers, artists and business and cultural innovators from the progressive state.

If gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers — pushed behind-the-scenes by some Democratic Party incompetents who bequeathed to us Scott Walker and Donald Trump  — wins, Wisconsin loses.

"We’ve got to get back to being decent," said Sally Mather of Mazomanie, commenting on the mid-terms in this morning's New York Times.

Yes. But we have to win first.
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Matt Flynn and Paul Soglin stand apart by vowing to rescind the illegal Foxconn contract that promises to wreak havoc as Wisconsin families will collectively cough up $ billions to finance the most insidious of corporate bad actors.

Wisconsin voters are anxious, and many voters are still making up their minds today.
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Looming in the background are two federal voting rights cases  — One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen (U.S. District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin and Frank v. Walker — which are being heard by a three-judge panel at the Count of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, (Marley, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).

The three judges are: Frank Easterbrook, Michael Kanne and Diane Sykes.

Easterbrook and Sykes are corrupt and craft their election-law opinions to most benefit the Republican Party.

Both judges would be willing to issue an order in the next eight weeks eviscerating the effect of pro-voting rights decisions that have resulted in high voter turnouts during the last two years.

Stay tuned.

Wisconsin's Year of Water—2018

Increasing opposition to proposed massive CAFO in central
Wisconsin signals statewide, clean water sentiment.
- Photo by Mary Captain-Braund (creative commons)

In 2016, Election Day saw electoral defeats for two prominent clean-water candidates running for state assembly in central and northeastern Wisconsin.

The set-backs are temporary and the Wisconsin Blue Wave is acknowledged across the political spectrum as the terrain on which the 2018 campaigns are held.

Clean water champ and 2016 candidate, Dave Gorski, is back, running in the 72nd assembly district in central Wisconsin.

In Wisconsin's northeastern peninsula, a special election for state senate in a district held by Republicans is considered so vulnerable, Gov. Scott Walker went to unprecedented lengths to block the election before state courts ordered Walker to follow the law, forcing the gov to let people decide their representatives in free elections.

Anti-Trump and Walker animus, pro-women sentiment, public school defenders, local democracy, criminal justice reform and anti-Foxconn voters are poised to become electoral factors in 2018.

Clean water grassroots groups present the equivalent of a massive ground operation energizing the Wisconsin Blue Wave.

Candidates in 2018 have taken notice, bringing back a traditional Wisconsin commitment—clean and fresh water.

In the town of Saratoga, Wisconsin, (population some 5,100), in southern Wood County an entire municipal government is mobilized for survival, as one proposed factory farm, CAFO, in Saratoga would "likely contaminate residents drinking wells and pump out more groundwater than some cities," (Anderson, USA Today Network-Wisconsin).

Republican legislators, State Rep. Scott Krug (R-Nekoosa) and State Sen. Patrick Testin (R-Stevens Point) in central Wisconsin work against the interests of their constituents whom they sell out to Big Ag interests which pollute and deplete surface and ground waters in support of the Republican coalition.

Some leading clean water advocates include gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn, and Ann Groves Lloyd running for a special election in central Wisconsin, assembly dist 42.

Writes Flynn in a message repeated across the state:

Wisconsin used to be known for clean air, clean water, and clean government. Now we have dirty air, dirty water, and corrupt government. This is unacceptable. Here's how I'll protect our clean water resources as #wigov https://t.co/QB1xZ2KZyO #bluewave2018 https://t.co/FfLh1BsqJ5

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) May 1, 2018

Groves Lloyd of Lodi, Wisconsin is running in the special assembly election to be held on June 12, one of two special elections that will draw national attention.

The Wisconsin people have become so disgusted with Scott Walker and the Republicans rigging law and water-safety regulations to help polluters against families that Walker in a historic first actually blocked special elections to stop Wisconsin voters from electing candidate who would protect their families.

Below is a TV spot running widely featuring Groves Lloyd's campaign commitment to protecting water.

Trump Hails Scott Walker on Foxconn, Tony Evers Says Co Is Here to Stay, Matt Flynn Vows Foxconn Is Gone and Terminated, If Elected

Madison, Wisconsin — Gov. Scott Walker attended a White House ceremony with Trump and Cabinet members in D.C. yesterday, which included a lovefest on the proposed Foxconn Technology Group project in Wisconsin, (AP).

In Wisconsin, Republican-lite Tony Evers, candidate for the Democratic Party nomination, continues his stance Foxconn is here to stay.

While Matt Flynn, candidate for the Democratic Party nomination, says the Foxconn-Wisconsin contract will be terminated, if Flynn is elected governor.