re: #94 alpuz

lol. The WEDC is such a right wing welfare grift. I can’t believe they went after Trek. I’m guessing their next target is New Glarus Brewery. Oh, wait, team WisGoP already went after one of the Leinenkugel’s brothers for being too moderate when he was running as a GoP candidate for Guv.

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I was thinking of Paging this, but it’s getting old.

Burkes hit back after governor attacks Trek in TV ad

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“Yesterday, Scott Walker launched an outrageous ad full of misleading claims about Trek Bicycle,” the email reads. “Let’s set the record straight … Fact: Almost 1,000 people in Wisconsin work at Trek, a successful company that I helped build. Fact: Trek makes more bikes in the US than anyone else. Fact: Walker’s WEDC approved millions in tax breaks for companies that relocated jobs overseas. Fact: Wisconsin is dead last in the Midwest in job growth.

“We need more Wisconsin success stories like Trek. Instead, Walker is choosing to attack a great Wisconsin business - a business that his flagship jobs agency has had as its poster child up until very recently. It is truly the height of hypocrisy.”

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John Burke told the Journal Sentinel that Walker should pull the ad.

“As a point of principle, the ad’s wrong,” John Burke said. “Mary had nothing to do with sourcing decisions at Trek. Those decisions were made by my father and myself.”

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