OMG.
Republicans found a new fall-guy for this failing boondoggle...incoming governor Tony Evers! Blame the Democrat for giving Foxconn cold feet!!!
Some random Japanese business rag cited 3 unnamed sources saying Evers tried to renegotiate, hence FoxConn is walking away. How much you wanna bet Walker, Duffy or their cronies were the unnamed sources???
Unfortunately, I gather there are enough Wisconsinites stupid enough to fall for this.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...try-blame-democratic-governor-debacle-n965556
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"The attempt by a Republican who championed the controversial project to shift the onus to Wisconsin’s newly-elected Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, gained steam after a Japan-based news organization reported that the Taiwanese tech giant got cold feet after Evers tried to renegotiate the deal.
The Nikkei Asian Review cited three unnamed sources.
The first shot was fired by GOP Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin during an appearance on the Fox News business show hosted by Maria Bartiromo. “Foxconn is under attack in our state because of our new governor,” Duffy declared.
“Wow, so you blame the new governor,” an apparently taken-aback Bartiromo replied.
Indeed Duffy did. He stressed that Foxconn had not yet abandoned the project in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, that received $4 billion in tax breaks secured by former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, and touted by President Donald Trump as a manufacturing job-maker.
“So, again this is still up in the air for us but if you are Foxconn you have to consider the politics of our state and what’s changed in the last, you know, two months,” said Duffy.
Bartiromo questioned Duffy about Foxconn a day after a top company official pulled the rug out from under Trump and Walker by announcing to Reuters that it is rethinking plans for a factory employing 13,000 blue-collar workers.