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Foxconn (from 3) click. While Foxconn would not make
semiconductors there, LCD panels were
still very high tech and would show
In 2017, there was little technology and other companies around the world that
no technology park in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin had the right stuff for a home.
just a small village ofabout 28,000
residents.
Moreoever, the placement of the
Foxconn plant meant Ryan and Walker
Then, on April 11, 2017, came the could rightfully claim this achievement
announcement by President Donald J. was almost solely the work of the
Trump out of Washington, D.C.: The GOP. If Democrats were involved, their
massive, worldwide conglomerate participation was minimal and invisible.
Foxconn was coming to Wisconsin, and
more specifically to Racine County.
Ryan, the high-profile Republican Speaker
who had been vetted as Willard “Mitt”
Foxconn’s move to Wisconsin confirmed Romney’s choice for vice president in
Trump’s announced vision of the U.S. 2012, was right at home with the good
returning to its roots as an industrial people of Racine County.
manufacturing center.
In June 2018, Trump with his Republican In 2018, Ryan’s star was on the rise in
entourage including Paul Ryan, House game of politics, and it seemed his role in
Speaker; Gov. Scott Walker; and Foxconn “The Party of Lincoln,” including a shot at
founder and and top boss Terry Gou. president in the future, seemed likely.
arrived for the groundbreaking.
A year later,
however, Ryan
stunned the party
with the news that
he was retiring
from Congress:
“I think I’ve
done my little
part in history
to set us on a
better course,” he
June 28, 2018 was a big day in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin as top Republican pols gathered for
the groundbreaking at the new Foxconn plant. From Left, Sen. Ron Johnson, Gov. Scott Walker, humbly said.
President Donald Trump, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Dreams do come true! A hot news day
This appearance by local boy Ryan must A great clutch of video and still news
have been particularly sweet, since Mount cameras and reporters from ABC, CBS
Pleasant was in Ryan’s congressional dis- and NBC, as well as WITI-6, the local Fox
trict. For Walker, the controversial two- channel in Milwaukee, were all pointing
term governor, it was a chance to show their lenses at the assembled high-profile
Wisconsin that he deserved a third term. visitors.
It’s a hot Thursday, about 80 degrees. Ag- Many residents, as well as local politici-
ainst a background of CAT tractors, Trump ans, also turned out to see the President
and his coterie hold shovels as cameras to page 6
