Wisconsin media covers up Walker giving taxpayer handouts to outsourcers

[hue]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/12/1313425/-Wisconsin-media-covers-up-Walker-giving-taxpayer-handouts-to-outsourcers#

A bombshell of a story broke this week involving the increasingly sketchy Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC). We'll let WKOW Channel 27 in Madison give you the details in their story. Basically it shows that not only have WEDC tax credits been handed out like candy while the state has the worst job record in the Midwest over the last 3 years, but in some cases, companies such as Plexus Corporation and Eaton Corporation ended up outsourcing jobs from Wisconsin, while keeping the tax write-offs.

The day after the report aired, WKOW added information showing executives from Plexus had given significant donations to the Walker campaign in recent years, with Eaton being less involved in the quid pro quo .

Members of the board of directors for two companies that outsourced Wisconsin jobs after accepting financial incentives from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation have donated close to $20,000 to Gov. Scott Walker's campaigns since 2005.

Wisconsin campaign finance records show Plexus Corp. board members David Drury and Ralf Boer have each made donations to Walker's campaign. Boer, an attorney and partner in the Foley and Lardner law firm in Milwaukee, has donated a total of $2,300 to the Walker campaign since 2006. Drury, the CEO of Poblocki Sign Company in Milwaukee, has donated $15,800 to Walker's campaign since 2005.

One board member for the Eaton Corp., Gregory Page, an executive with Cargill in Minnesota, made a single donation of $1,000 to the Governor's campaign in 2013.

mazingly, while the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and several smaller Wisconsin community newspapers have carried the story, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Madison.com papers have yet to say a word on it, despite it being nearly 2 full days since WKOW in Madison went on the air with this revelation.

And there’s an extra layer to this story, with events of this week being a factor. In May 2012, 3 weeks before he faced the voters in a recall election, Governor Walker made an appearance at Plexus Corporation to announce that the company was going to add jobs in the Neenah area, with the help of WEDC tax credits. Doubly interesting is the fact that the Walker website has been scrubbed of this announcement, but Blogging Blue still has their post from 2012 about it,as well as the failure to add those jobs later on.

[Scuba]

1. The Milwaukee Urinal/Sentenel and Wisconsin State Urinal are in the tank for Walker.

That's not news.

[atreides1]

2. Why should we care?

The majority of the voters of Wisconsin got what they voted for...a corrupt clown and his corrupt circus!

Let the people of Wisconsin make their own decisions based on the serf/peasant mentality that many of them seem to have...Not my party, not my monkeys!

[Ed Suspicious]

6. Thanks for your constructive input.

"I don't care. Let's count the ways." These replies are just so odd to me.

[riversedge]

7. Problem is--the rest of us have to live with his vile

politices.

[pansypoo53219]

3. wow. that should really be counted against his jobs pledge. which he hasn't yet met.

[Blue Owl]

4. Sounds about right -- get rewarded for screwing the very state he's supposedly governing

What a sold-out POS.