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Anyone who had paid attention to the disastrous governing record of @WISGOP in my home state over the past couple decades would know: Republicans run on voter suppression, overt gerrymandering, and raiding public funds for self-dealing economic subsidies: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923737036/trumps-highly-touted-foxconn-project-falls-short-of-its-promises
In reward for the gigantic failures of the Foxconn scheme, which @mercatus found in a Dec. 2019 study may reduce the GDP of Wisconsin by $6 billion, @ScottWalker is moving to the presidency of @YAF, where his compensation is sure to jump up to $1 million. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/15/back-in-the-news-walkers-new-job-will-pay-plenty/
Here's a story by @BruceMurphyMKE on @mercatus study on #Foxconn—again, as he points out, the center bills itself as "the world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas." Check out what the total cost could have been...now that's conservative https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/12/05/murphys-law-foxconn-may-cut-state-gdp-by-6-billion/
In Wisconsin, @SpeakerVos and @SenFitzgerald are holding their caucus against independent redistricting, supported by counties representing over 82% of the state's people, with more on the ballot this year. Even a bipartisan bill stays blocked by @WISGOP: https://readsludge.com/2020/09/25/in-heavily-gerrymandered-wisconsin-a-bipartisan-grassroots-movement-fights-for-fair-maps/
A May 2018 report by @metaCoop found that since 2010, comparing Gov. Scott Walker in WI and Gov. Mark Dayton in MN, "wages grew faster in MN than in WI at every decile in the wage distribution," esp. low-wage workers. Progressive priorities showed better. https://www.epi.org/publication/as-wisconsins-and-minnesotas-lawmakers-took-divergent-paths-so-did-their-economies-since-2010-minnesotas-economy-has-performed-far-better-for-working-families-than-wisconsin/
This Oct. 1999 report on the right-wing "welfare reform" experiment / inaccuracies from @TommyThompsonWI and allies was key in my understanding of what would later be described as "juking the stats." The GOP has long cultivated recognizably immoral goals. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1999/10/07/the-end-of-welfare/
Almost no one reading this thread will switch their party affiliation from these economic links—my audience is the people who patrol the boundaries of what's legislatively possible from Dems, and who keep not following progressive path and getting rocked.
https://prospect.org/culture/books/nancy-pelosi-a-leader-without-leading/
https://prospect.org/culture/books/nancy-pelosi-a-leader-without-leading/
