Posted on 04/18/2022 5:56:46 PM PDT by Nextrush
Proponents note their signature volume rivals the number of votes that put Mayor Brandon Bochenski in office in 2020.
In only a few months, a group of worried voices opposing a proposed Grand Forks corn-milling plan has ballooned into a political movement big enough to demand a citywide vote on its future.
A total 4,797 signatures were deemed valid by the city this month on a petition demanding a vote on a development deal with Fufeng Group, the China-based agribusiness behind the facility. Though the city had deemed the petition invalid--it has done do for legal and technical reasons--those nearly 5,000 signatures are far beyond the legal threshold to force a referendum...
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He is Republican Brandon Bochenski former pro hockey player.
Local Republicans conspiring with a Chinese company to build a factory in North Dakota that the people are rising up to oppose.
But they are being shot down by the local GOP government and local business leaders.
Chinese money buying local support.
Investment is investment. The Chinese may go away one day, but the plant remains.
Thats the way the Chinese see it wrt western investment.
A big Chinese processing plant next to an air force base. Of course the Chinese running the plant won’t be trying to spy on the base activities, they are just there to mill corn. And think of the tax payments. What could be so bad about that?
You were thinking like I was.
The local business boosters (Chamber of Commerce types) all excited about this Chicom plant saying the opponents are spreading “misinformation” about it.
NO Nothing more,nothing less...
NEXT to an AIR BASE???
Not only NO, but Hell No.
The Chinese may go away one day, but the plant remains.So you're their official Chinese spokesperson/apologist/soothsayer.Thats the way the Chinese see it wrt western investment.
The Chicoms own all the US meat packing plants, millions of acres of farmland, ports and food processing plants. What could possibly go wrong?
Thats what the Chinese think about foreign investment in China. It has worked out well for them.
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