Crony Capitalism
Highlight’s from The Verge’s Foxconn Report
In the end, the Foxconn debacle in Wisconsin is the physical manifestation of the alternate reality that has defined the…
Trickle
The legacy giveaway from @ScottWalker, is back in the news for being so much less than it was supposed to…
Gov. Evers Sees the Disappointing Truth About Foxconn
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/07/09/how-wisconsins-deal-with-foxconn-fell-short-of-expectations.html
Predictably, Trump Comes Up Empty on Foxconn
From The White House’s official transcript: This is just the beginning. This is one of the largest plants in the…
Foxconn project: another non-delay delay
When will WEDC drop that fatally self-mocking “WisConn” bad label?
‘Every paragraph revealed another strange twist or failure’
As it turns out, history had already determined that state handouts to attract and keep businesses was a horrible idea,…
Walker Foxconn Folly
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Here’s the counter-argument today, first in a long, must-read piece carried by…
When the middle-of-the-road approach is business welfare
It’s the default position of a declining class of entitled men in places like Whitewater that public money should be…
Shrinking in reality
Just to remind you on how much of a COMPLETE SUCKER you have to,be to think that Foxconn will ever…
Really Bad Scam
Jon Peacock of the Wisconsin Budget Project on what we need to look at with the Foxconn contract, Defenders of…
WEDC Plans for FY 2017
Five-hours of open-for-business scheming –
Business Leeches Dislike Private Initiative
You see, in Janesville, extremely wealthy individuals and politically connected pals including large corporations with hundreds of millions in cash…
Everyone is a crony capitalist if it means losing Oscar Mayer
Everyone is a crony capitalist if it means losing Oscar Mayer @ Blaska’s Bring It!
John Deere Growth Means Fewer Jobs In State And $2M WEDC State Tax Credit
John Deere Growth Means Fewer Jobs In State And $2M WEDC State Tax Credit @ Rock Netroots.
Dems wrong; Scott Walker’s WEDC isn’t broken, it’s doing just what it was designed to do
It’s just that what it’s supposed to do is enrich cronies – Democurmudgeon: Dems wrong; Scott Walker’s WEDC isn’t broken,…
Nebraska Sacks Former WEDC Official
Unwanted anywhere – A woman who played a key role in Wisconsin’s economic development agency, including overseeing a $500,000 taxpayer…
WEDC Spends More, Produces Less
The state’s flagship job-creation agency handed out nearly $90 million more in economic development awards last year than the previous…
WEDC grants Kohls up to $62.5 million in state taxpayer subsidies, but multi-billion-dollar company falls far short of stipulated goals
But there’s another Kohl’s story Walker doesn’t tell. It’s about the $62.5 million package of tax credits given to Menomonee…
Dee Hall Previews Upcoming Investigative WEDC Report
The work looks into the state’s jobs organization’s awards to WI companies, like Kohl’s. WEDC has given and promised millions…
Negative audits and questionable financial assistance at WEDC
Negative audits and questionable financial assistance at WEDC @ POLITICAL CAPITAL.
No Change in WEDC Cronyism
“Are you going to follow the recommendations in the audit?” I asked the Board Chair of the Wisconsin Economic Development…
Legislators Fight to Make WEDC Normal Agency
But an increasing number of Democrats and even a few conservatives have proposed making major changes to WEDC, either by…