Daniel Kaufman, author of The Fall of Wisconsin, published a major report Saturday about the politics and implications of the Foxconn deal in The New Yorker.
Did Scott Walker and Donald Trump Deal Away the Governor’s Race to Foxconn?
At Walker’s request, Scott Pruitt, then the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, overruled the objections of his staff to grant most of southeastern Wisconsin an exemption from limits on smog pollution.
The New York Times also on Saturday posted separately another piece with a Wisconsin dateline about contaminated drinking water:
whether about Foxconn, or polluted water in Kewaunee County,
or in the Central Sands where The New York Times stopped by, or the donor-driven privatization of state parkland for a developer, or Walker's calculated, coordinated attack on the state's environment since his first day in office.
No doubt your friends will call Sunday and say, 'Hey, what the heck happened to your state?'
And you will say, "Haven't you been listening to me all these years about Walker and the polluters he's put in charge?"
And don't you want to call them Tuesday night and say, "Hey, we finally knocked the guy out. And replaced him with a teacher
who's got science degrees.'
This is doable. We don't have to be the subject of these kinds of grim stories about livestock manure in the water or people being thrown off their land or from bulldozed houses for Foxconn at taxpayer expense anymore.
We don't have to be the right-wing's laboratory for dirty government.
Take back the state. Let a citizens' restoration begin.
Rural America’s Own Private Flint: Polluted Water Too Dangerous to Drink
ARMENIA, Wis. — The groundwater that once ran cool and clean from taps in this Midwestern farming town is now laced with contaminants and fear. People refuse to drink it. They won’t brush their teeth with it. They dread taking showers.
Rural communities call it their own, private Flint— a diffuse, creeping water crisis tied to industrial farms and slack regulations that for years has tainted thousands of residential wells across the Midwest and beyond.We in Wisconsin have been living these stories, drowning in the coverage,
whether about Foxconn, or polluted water in Kewaunee County,
or in the Central Sands where The New York Times stopped by, or the donor-driven privatization of state parkland for a developer, or Walker's calculated, coordinated attack on the state's environment since his first day in office.
No doubt your friends will call Sunday and say, 'Hey, what the heck happened to your state?'
And you will say, "Haven't you been listening to me all these years about Walker and the polluters he's put in charge?"
And don't you want to call them Tuesday night and say, "Hey, we finally knocked the guy out. And replaced him with a teacher
This is doable. We don't have to be the subject of these kinds of grim stories about livestock manure in the water or people being thrown off their land or from bulldozed houses for Foxconn at taxpayer expense anymore.
We don't have to be the right-wing's laboratory for dirty government.
Take back the state. Let a citizens' restoration begin.