Posted on 11/08/2023 1:22:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Voters in Mecosta County, Michigan, successfully ousted six local elected Republicans who supported taxpayer-funded subsidies for a Chinese company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to build an Electric Vehicle (EV) battery plant in their community.
On Tuesday night, voters in Green Charter Township and Big Rapids Township recalled a total of six local elected officials combined — all Republicans — who voted in favor of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) plan to have CCP-linked Gotion Inc. build a $2.4 billion EV battery plant in the area.
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no, I did not. Still, the comment holds.
Adios, mofos!
Essentially the board pulled a McCarthy and got Gaetzed.
I hope it works out.
Republicans
But the consequences of not attempting the change is eventual tyranny.
Well, they’re idiots also because they voted for Gretchen!
I went to college in Mecosta County. It was a great place 30
Some years ago.
Real salt of the earth people. I’m glad they still care enough to oust their idiot overlords.
Shame the same thing isn’t being done in Morgan, Walton, and Newton counties in Georgia.
But, maybe next year things might change.
Sounds to me like those “Republicans” were actually RINOS. What was done about the Dems in favor of this idiot plan? If they had pushed the plan through, who’s to say those Chinese batteries might not have exploded & maybe burned the whole town to the ground? Then they could have named it “Land ‘o Gotion”
Mecosta used to be a sort of pilgrimage for republican candidates to establish their bona fides since that was the home of Russell Kirk. The town itself is kind of a dump but the Kirk home is amazing (they apparently purchased a Catholic Church that was being torn down and incorporated elements of it into their home according to a friend who has been inside it). In the pictures he sent me, the Kirk Center used to be a mechanics garage that Kirk refurbished into a library. I wish I could have a library like the pics my buddy sent me.
I live in the area - they haven’t done an environmental impact statement (as far as I know).
This is on the edge of a National Forest with several major rivers in the area.
Who trusts Chinese companies to observe environmental rules?
I suspect it would only be a matter of time before they have a big problem.
Reportedly they are going to house several hundred Chinese workers/managers in one of the dorms at Ferris State University in Big Rapids. Don’t we already have a problem with Chinese companies infiltrating out Universities?
I read that the agreement setting up the company says that they are limited to 300 Chinese workers/managers. Who expects that that is going to be enforced?
While all this is going on Ford has suspended further construction on a battery plant near Jackson MI.
There are several other pull backs on EV’s across the industry.
This plant would be half way around the world from their raw materials to make their product and their customers are hundreds of miles away.
Doesn’t make sense to me.
Good for the voters, but what is to stop the Dems they voted for from taking the CCP money? Sounds like their legislature needs to pass a law disallowing Chinese ownership of substantial properties, like the one Governer Sarah Huckabee recently oversaw in Arkansas.
Wow, I should have read the thread before posting my last post. Special election needed. Whoever runs, somebody please follow the money.
This is the process. Next.
I sort of agree.
But China does need to be handled differently.
I am 50/50 on this. Michigan does need more development.
So you support Chicoms?
Not Republicans really, Traitors for sure.
Yep, and the fact they voted with that bully Whitless is another reason. shame on them. They brought on their own demise.
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