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IMO, this stands out among other things as a big reason for why Tony Evers was elected. So in a way, this helped WI in the end (by finally getting folks to see how big of an idiot Scott "open for business" Walker is).

Distant memory maybe, but I'd call it the beginning of the end of Republican control over a blue/purple state. Evers has been the only thing holding back a lot of terrible ideas until recently. Fingers crossed for new maps before 2024, but I'll be fine with 2026.

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I think it harms WI in the principle: someone got elected for reasons that turned out to be illusory.

Just because it helped “your guy” this time doesn’t make it a good thing.

Agreed. Id prefer a world where the Republican Party wasn’t just a collections of scammers and the scammed.

I think you might be misunderstanding. Evers didn't get elected by selling the scam Foxconn plant. He got elected after it was clear that Scott Walker, his opponent, made promises about the plant that he could not keep.

Ahhh. I was misunderstanding. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure they're saying the opposite of that. It was Trump who made it a big PR thing and then he and Walker lost after voters realized it was illusory.

Maybe you missed the part where Vos is openly talking about impeaching Protasiewicz before she hears a single case. https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-i...

Politicians come and go, but major investment tends to stick around. I don't really care about the partisan politics of WI (or America, for that matter) but this sounds like cutting off the nose to spite the face.

What they’re claiming, I think, is that the imaginary Foxconn facility lead to Walker’s downfall. It’s not like anyone said “let’s make the Foxconn facility go away, to get rid of Walker” (this _would_ arguably be cutting off the nose to spite the face); the facility was always imaginary, and this arguably lead to Walker’s downfall. There was never a nose to start with.

Yeah. Walker also turned down federal infrastructure funds because he didn't want to be seen using federal tax dollars.allbbecause he thought he was gearing up for a presidential run ... Until Trump ate his lunch

I am still incredibly angry that the train was never constructed.

It was constructed, just somewhere else, and we still paid for it, I believe

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