Tuesday, August 1, 2017

No good can come from this secret meeting at the White House



Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at White House on health care. (Madison.com, 7/31/2017)
He joined Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson for talks on Monday with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy.

"Asa On The Road" doesn't go beyond the state's boundaries.

Monday, July 31, 2017

Of which just 3,000 of these 'new' jobs are permanent




From everything that I've read and heard, Foxconn plans to build a facility in either Racine or Kenosha County, not downtown Milwaukee, which we see pictured in Walker's tweet.  

Meanwhile, I assume Terry Gou is still playing one county against the other.  Apparently, officials in these 2 counties aren't as squeezably soft (i.e., heedlessly desperate) as Scott Walker.



Related posts:
UPDATE. State Sen. Van Wanggaard on board with Wisconsin's Foxconn deep-pockets strategy.  (7/30/2017)
A Ring of Familiarity. Once upon a time in Pennsylvania.....  (7/29/2017)
Matt, it doesn't appear that 'rigorous' and 'review' are in Scott Walker's and Foxconn's vocabulary.  (7/29/2017)
Scott Walker and Foxconn steamroll environmental regulation going forward.  (7/29/2017)
UPDATE.  The luring of Foxconn intensifies in Wisconsin.   (7/20/2017)
While Wisconsin and Michigan duke it out for low-paying jobs, Foxconn announces $5 billion investment in India.  (7/8/2017)
UPDATE. Foxconn becomes pawn in Wisconsin transportation funding tussle.  (7/6/2017)
Foxconn officials eyeing sites in Michigan.  (7/6/2017)
UPDATE. Foxconn becomes pawn in Wisconsin transportation funding tussle.  (7/6/2017)

Asterisks aside, Reince Priebus tops list of shortest-serving White House chiefs of staff


Source:  Wikipedia

Here’s where Reince Priebus falls on the list of shortest-serving chiefs of staff.  (NPR, 7/28/2017)
Priebus lasted 189 days on the job, the fewest of any chiefs of staff who were not leaving the office with their president or serving in an interim role. (It’s even fewer if, as he told several reporters Friday, he actually resigned privately the day before). 
And Kelly, in taking Priebus’ job, becomes the shortest-serving secretary of Homeland Security.

The Trump Team reminds me of this scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, particularly when we get to 3:22.