WI GOP Gov. and eager corporate captive Scott Walker will make his 2018 re-election campaign announcement on Monday, but don't look for him to be posed at one of these classic Wisconsin trout streams or rural barns.
He'll throw his hat into the ring at Weldell Manufacturing, Waukesha, the Journal Sentinel reports.
Dig a little deeper and you find that Walker will certainly be among friends there, as twenty-six people associated with Weldall Manufacturing have donated $52,450 to Walker's campaign committee since 2008, according to the data base maintained by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
And it's no coincidence that Walker on Monday is not announcing his re-election bid at rural Racine County Foxconn site even though he's touted his Foxconn deal for months in interviews and on his social media pages.
Walker is not announcing a statewide run at the Foxconn site because:
* The deal showers an unprecedented $3 billion of taxpayer dollars on Southeastern Wisconsin at the expense of the rest of the state;
* The site further calls attention to the deal's targeted road-building, environmental exemptions for developers and judicial favors awarded to the Taiwan-based multi-national corporation, but for no other business anywhere in in Wisconsin;
* He'd be adding to the negative p.r. the Foxconn deal has aalready teed up for Monday because that's the same day the always-blundering WEDC has agreed to let its board members finally review the state's critical, proposed contract with Foxconn after weeks of delays and an outrageous cover-up.
The contract release behind WEDC's closed doors will inevitably leak into news coverage of Walker's campaign announcement.
And since we're talking media and Walker, reporters should ask Walker at his hand-picked Waukesha manufacturing venue where he'll spin out cherry-picked jobs data why he's still tens of thousands of jobs short of the 250,000 new private-sector jobs he pledged seven years ago to create in just four.
He'll throw his hat into the ring at Weldell Manufacturing, Waukesha, the Journal Sentinel reports.
Dig a little deeper and you find that Walker will certainly be among friends there, as twenty-six people associated with Weldall Manufacturing have donated $52,450 to Walker's campaign committee since 2008, according to the data base maintained by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
And it's no coincidence that Walker on Monday is not announcing his re-election bid at rural Racine County Foxconn site even though he's touted his Foxconn deal for months in interviews and on his social media pages.
Walker is not announcing a statewide run at the Foxconn site because:
* The deal showers an unprecedented $3 billion of taxpayer dollars on Southeastern Wisconsin at the expense of the rest of the state;
* The site further calls attention to the deal's targeted road-building, environmental exemptions for developers and judicial favors awarded to the Taiwan-based multi-national corporation, but for no other business anywhere in in Wisconsin;
* He'd be adding to the negative p.r. the Foxconn deal has aalready teed up for Monday because that's the same day the always-blundering WEDC has agreed to let its board members finally review the state's critical, proposed contract with Foxconn after weeks of delays and an outrageous cover-up.
The contract release behind WEDC's closed doors will inevitably leak into news coverage of Walker's campaign announcement.
And since we're talking media and Walker, reporters should ask Walker at his hand-picked Waukesha manufacturing venue where he'll spin out cherry-picked jobs data why he's still tens of thousands of jobs short of the 250,000 new private-sector jobs he pledged seven years ago to create in just four.
