Why WI AG Schimel can't probe devolving Foxconn deal

Your head may be spinning over the news today that Foxconn won't - - at least initially, whatever that truly means - - build out the giant plant it and Walker have been hyper-ventilating about for a year.

Which is about how long ago I said the numbers being thrown around about the project needed to be investigated.

Every Wisconsin legislator and local official sworn to protecting honest and open government, environmental law and taxpayer money absolutely should slow down the Foxconn deal until they know know they are getting a straight story, forthcoming advice, accurate data and unfiltered facts.

So the spinning about the plant I'd noted eleven months ago by our super-partisan GOP Attorney General rules him out as the official to begin asking who knew what, and when, about his multi-billion flip:

Brad D. Schimel‏ @BradSchimel Jul 27

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