I feel that the article you cited from the Pro-Ryan talk radio station is intentionally disingenuous. Many, if not the majority of small businesses in this country do not spend their resources on websites that are more than rudimentary. The internet is used as a tool by small business and for many it is not important to their operations.
My father still runs a small construction company from his home. He hasn’t been very active lately, since he is 80 years old, but he is still buying and selling land and building sites using his corporate name. In his heyday his corporation built a lot of houses. He has no website and many years the corporation has no taxable income. This is the same for many people who own small businesses. A corporation is at its root a tax entity... and nothing more in many cases.
Mr. Nehlen works as senior vice president of operations for Neptune-Benson, Inc., a subsidiary of Evoqua Water Technologies.
From Mr. Nehlen Website:
“Currently, Mr. Nehlen serves as senior vice president of operations for a company that leads the industry in water filtration and disinfection technologies. In that role, he oversees all facets of the organization’s engineering, new product development, production, supply chain, business development, and acquisitions. During his tenure with the company, Nehlen relocated manufacturing operations and jobs previously based in Canada to the eastern seaboard of the United States. Additionally, under his leadership, several of the company’s product lines and jobs were moved to Wisconsin.”
“Mr. Nehlen has likewise established his own small business in Wisconsin. Blue Skies Global LLC leverages key networks and technologies on behalf of the companies with which it partners, in order to ensure that they can deliver outstanding, cost-effective engineered products and projects.”
“As an inventor, Mr. Nehlen holds several patents both in the United States and abroad and has others pending. Two of those patents relate to the design of tube sheets, a subcomponent of various pieces of engineered industrial equipment. Where most tube sheets are comprised of a single, thick sheet, Nehlen’s designs call for innovative, stacked thinner sheets of metal. Stacking creates zones that wouldn’t have existed otherwise, tasking the various regions for filtration, flow control, shock absorption, magnetic characteristics, ion exchange, dosing, chemical or medical treatment, or other purposes. One of Mr. Nehlen’s tube sheets has applications in water filtration. Mr. Nehlen also holds the patent on a strainer and control system that has implications for worker safety. Some of Mr. Nehlen’s patents also lend themselves to additive manufacturing technologies, of which 3D printing is but one example.”
“Previously, Mr. Nehlen was a division president at the Georgia-based company TydenBrooks, where he managed the 80 percent relocation of a Mexico-based factory back to the U.S. Prior to TydenBrooks, he worked his way from the shop floor through middle management and all the way to executive leadership at SPX Corporation. Nehlen’s roles with SPX took him to a variety of states, including Wisconsin, as well as to international locations.”
“Since 2013, Mr. Nehlen has served as an advisory board member for Operation Homefront, a Wisconsin non-profit organization with a strong record of bringing direct financial assistance to the families of active duty service members.”
This is the contact info for Blue Skies Global Llc - Contact Tel: +1.8882842669
Contact Our Office: 1561 Highland Dr Lake Geneva WI 53147
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Did you even bother to read the news story I posted? The above statement you quoted from Nehlen's campaign website is a proven lie. The "company" has conducted zero business, reported no income, paid zero taxes, has no employees and - at best, if what Nehlen's campaign manager says is true - has provided "pro bono" consulting to his friends.
When Wisconsin Republicans were under siege at the state capitol and fighting recall elections, where was Nehlen? Voting in other states, if he voted at all.
For crying out loud, Nehlen announced his candidacy on a notorious liberal Madison talk radio show.
But go ahead, send Nehlen a check. It's not going to matter. Ryan is going to pound Nehlen into the ground in August.