A former Foxconn executive blames the Evers administration, the Wisconsin media, and the business climate for the failure of the huge project in Mount Pleasant.
Five years ago the Taiwan electronics giant reached a deal with Wisconsin to build a factory that would bring 13,000 jobs to the state.
Instead, the campus in southeastern Wisconsin is mostly a ghost town now.
Allen Yeung told a podcaster one of the main reasons the jobs never materialized was the 2019 change in leadership from Republican Scott Walker to Democratic Governor Tony Evers.
The company kept falling short of hiring targets and missing out on more than $29-million in tax credits.
Efforts to change the agreement didn’t save the project.
