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Foxconn Bid Winners Donate $68,000 to Walker

One-third of three dozen companies winning contracts give to Walker’s campaign.

By - Jul 26th, 2018 02:58 pm
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Gov. Scott Walker. Photo from the State of Wisconsin.

Gov. Scott Walker. Photo from the State of Wisconsin.

Owners and employees from a third of the three dozen companies that were awarded contracts by Foxconn on Tuesday have contributed about $68,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaigns.

The Walker administration awarded Foxconn about $4.5 billion in state and local tax breaks, grants, worker training, highway improvements, and other giveaways to locate the plant in Wisconsin.

The companies and their employee contributions between January 2010 and December 2017 to the governor are:

Johnson Controls International, of Milwaukee, about $33,500;

Halquist Stone, of Sussex, $19,155;

Wolter Power Systems, of Brookfield. The company is a division of Wisconsin Lift Truck Corp., whose employees contributed $6,465;

HVA Products, of Mequon, $1,500;

Johnson’s Nursery, of Menomonee Falls, $1,500;

Jasperson Sod Farm, of Franksville, about $1,365;

Kevco, Inc., of New Berlin, $1,100;

Dickow Cyzak Tile Co., of Kenosha, $1,050;

Ideal Crane, of Madison, $800;

Werner Electric, of Appleton, $650;

Witte Supply, of Burlington, $500;

Red Cedar Steel Erectors, of Menomonie, $200;

Professional System Analysis, of Germantown, $100.

The top individual contributors from these companies to the governor were:

Thomas J. Halquist, of Elm Grove, president of Halquist Stone, $10,655;

Stephen Roell, chief executive officer at Johnson Controls, and his wife, Shelagh, of Brookfield, $10,000;

William and Marijane Halquist, of Hartland, owners of Halquist Stone, $7,350.

The project that the companies will be working on is a 120,000-square-foot multi-purpose building that will be used as office space for the construction companies chosen to build the company’s $10 billion liquid-crystal display manufacturing plant. The building will later be used for research and development activities.

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4 thoughts on “Campaign Cash: Foxconn Bid Winners Donate $68,000 to Walker”

  1. Terry says:
    July 26, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    Greasy Scott Walker!

  2. Tommy says:
    July 27, 2018 at 8:18 am

    Pay to play by Scott Walker.

  3. Joanne Brown says:
    July 27, 2018 at 8:30 am

    Let’s not forget that the LCD manufacturing plant has been drastically scaled down to the Generation 6 rather than the promised Generation 10.5 LCD scheme. This means no $10 billion plant, as Bruce Murphy discussed here early this month.

  4. Terry says:
    July 31, 2018 at 11:48 am

    Wisconsin has been FoxCONNED by Career Politician Scott Walker! Enjoy higher taxes for NOTHING in return as Walker and republicans continue their corrupt pay to play schemes.

    Dump Walker 2018
    No more republican corruption!

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