WEDC Foots Taxpayers With $1 Million Loan Given To Conman |
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Written by Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Courtney Beyer |
Thursday, 12 July 2018 11:20 |
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/walker-open-for-business-s5.jpg MADISON - While Wisconsinites continue to raise concerns over Foxconn’s long history of broken job promises and the mounting $4.5 billion taxpayer giveaway to bring them here, Scott Walker’s troubled jobs agency, which also approved the Foxconn deal, has decided to write off a $1.1 million debt owed by a fraud convict. “If your agency can’t enforce a $1 million loan, why should Wisconsin taxpayers trust you with a $4.5 billion giveaway to a foreign corporation with a bad track record?” asked Martha Laning, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. “While Scott Walker and WEDC have been playing it fast and loose with taxpayer money, the needs of hardworking Wisconsinites have been left behind. Wisconsin families need fully-funded classrooms for their children and safe and dependable roads to drive on, not more of Scott Walker’s costly broken promises.”
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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 July 2018 19:22 |
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