OPINION: Walker’s final insult

His last-minute deal with Kimberly-Clark is not real economic development

Hold on. Wait. Stop. Let us get this straight.

As part of their lame-duck session designed to make Tony Evers a four-year lame-duck governor, the Republicans passed a provision requiring the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee to sign off on similar deals made by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

While their motivation was obscene, the actual policy makes sense. The idea that the WEDC can just give away millions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money without any oversight from the Legislature’s finance committee is ridiculous. And that applies no matter who is governor or which party controls the committee.

But then last week outgoing Gov. Scott Walker negotiated a $28 million deal with Kimberly-Clark and had his WEDC rubber stamp it — before signing a bill taking away the next governor’s power to do exactly the same thing...

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Ken Notes: I want to write some articles with Dave! Sort of a yin yang thing...