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Miles Archer

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Fri Jun 29, 2018, 08:58 PM Jun 2018

JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Foxconn's lobbying firm hires Scott Walker's longtime campaign manager

Foxconn Creates A Job … for Top Scott Walker Campaign Consultant
Synergy Walker-Style as Firm Lobbying for Massive State Subsidy for Foxconn Hires Governor’s Campaign Manager, Head of Presidential Run PAC

https://onewisconsinnow.org/press/foxconn-creates-a-job-for-top-scott-walker-campaign-consultant/

MADISON, Wis. — Any doubt campaign politics is the driving force behind Gov. Scott Walker gambling $3 billion on a subsidy for Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has been dispelled by the creation of a single job. According to a report from Wispolitics.com, the lobbying firm hired by Foxconn has brought on Keith Gilkes, Walker’s longtime campaign manager and the head of the Unintimidated PAC that supported his presidential ambitions, to do “public affairs and communications.”

“Scott Walker’s longtime campaign manager working with the firm lobbying for the state subsidy for Foxconn epitomizes how Scott Walker operates,” commented One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. “With this guy it’s all about his political ambitions and his next campaign. His scheme to deliver the largest state subsidy to a foreign corporation in history is no different.”

Campaign finance reports for Walker’s gubernatorial campaign show he has paid the consulting firm run by Gilkes nearly $90,000 in just the first six months of 2017. Between Walker’s campaigns and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Gilkes has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his work on Walker’s 2010, 2012 and 2014 gubernatorial elections and as the head of the PAC supporting Walker’s failed run for President.

Walker has been on a frenetic, campaign-style tour of the state in recent weeks touting his plan to provide the largest ever state subsidy to a foreign corporation. But Walker’s boosterism doesn’t change the facts of the proposed deal that will have Wisconsin taxpayers sending state tax dollars to subsidize the bottom line of a multi-billion foreign corporation instead of investing in local public schools, roads and bridges or Main Street businesses.

https://onewisconsinnow.org/press/foxconn-creates-a-job-for-top-scott-walker-campaign-consultant/
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JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Foxconn's lobbying firm hires Scott Walker's longtime campaign manager (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2018 OP
Foreign-owned Foxxconn gets $4.5 billion in US subsidies. yallerdawg Jun 2018 #1
China gets $500 Billion every year from US consumers quartz007 Jun 2018 #2

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. Foreign-owned Foxxconn gets $4.5 billion in US subsidies.
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 09:05 PM
Jun 2018

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What a topsy-turvy world we live in.

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