Huge props to Milwaukee State Senator Tim Carpenter
for pushing the Walker administration and its always-troubled Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to allow - - gasp! - - its board to see the precedent-setting, budget-devouring $3+billion Foxconn contract before voting on it.
That we have to celebrate what should be a no-brainer Democracy & Public Finance 101 move - - public officials looking at a contract which commits vast amounts of public money, state waters and other resources held in common to a business headquartered in Taiwan - - shows how far from traditional Wisconsin values and open government Walker has dragged the state.
I will add today's post to my Foxconn archive, now with posts extending into a fifth month.
for pushing the Walker administration and its always-troubled Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to allow - - gasp! - - its board to see the precedent-setting, budget-devouring $3+billion Foxconn contract before voting on it.
That we have to celebrate what should be a no-brainer Democracy & Public Finance 101 move - - public officials looking at a contract which commits vast amounts of public money, state waters and other resources held in common to a business headquartered in Taiwan - - shows how far from traditional Wisconsin values and open government Walker has dragged the state.
I will add today's post to my Foxconn archive, now with posts extending into a fifth month.