Editorial Foxconn fiasco disqualifies Kleefisch as a serious gubernatorial candidate "Foxconned."

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Editorial | Foxconn fiasco disqualifies Kleefisch as a serious gubernatorial candidate

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Cap Times editorial Feb 9, 2022




The Foxconn scheme cooked up by former Gov. Scott Walker, former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and former President Donald Trump looked like a fiasco from the start. Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics company that proposed to build a $10 billion manufacturing facility in Mount Pleasant, had a track record of promising state and local governments the moon and failing to deliver. And there was no reason to believe that Wisconsin’s bumbling officials could cut a better deal than other states that had been seduced and abandoned by the conglomerate.

This editorial page warned at the time that Wisconsin was being “Foxconned.”

Yet, as Wisconsin Public Radio reminds us: “Walker signed a $3 billion tax incentive deal based on job creation. At the local and regional levels, Mount Pleasant and Racine County created a tax increment financing district in 2017 to pay for a $764 million investment to support the Foxconn project. The public investment was later increased to $911 million.” And Kleefisch cheered him on, bragging about how the administration was “being very aggressive in our plans to assure we are putting together the very best package” for the Taiwanese corporation. The lieutenant governor gleefully promised an “exciting future … now that Foxconn is joining Wisconsin’s economy.”

Trump, a notoriously inept businessman who filed for bankruptcy six times before moving on to political grifting, pumped out even more hot air than Kleefisch. He showed up in Mount Pleasant in June of 2018 to identify the Foxconn project as “the eighth wonder of the world.”

“Eighteen months ago, this was a field,” Trump declared. “And now it’s one of the most advanced places of any kind you’ll see anywhere in the world.”

Unfortunately, it has remained a field — or, to be more precise, a vacant lot. With Foxconn cutting its investment to a fraction of its initial commitment to build a 20 million-square-foot manufacturing complex — which was to be funded by the largest investment ever by a foreign company on a new project in the U.S. — state and local officials have been trying desperately to turn the southeastern Wisconsin site into something more than a vacant lot.
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Foxconn is seen across the street from Windy Hill property last May. The 100-foot-tall globe is visible from the property.
DIANA PANUNCIAL, journaltimes.com