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ICYMI: "If Train Leaves State, So Will Company."

Nov 04, 2010

Scott Walker Jobs-Killing Begins

MADISON – The company that was set to create some of the thousands of jobs out of the high-speed rail project says that Scott Walker’s chief economic proposal, to end the rail plan first proposed by Tommy Thompson, would result in the company moving out of Wisconsin.

A spokesman for the company says, “I don’t think that’s what the new governor wants.”

We wouldn’t be so sure.

Read the article here: http://dailyreporter.com/blog/2010/11/04/barrett-killing-high-speed-rail-project-goes-beyond-politics/

Having killed Milwaukee County’s jobs-creation office, Scott Walker ran on a vow to kill the rail project and send the already-allocated $810 million to states like Florida or Virginia.