Showing posts with label Paul Jadin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Jadin. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Uh-Oh, a 4th "disgruntled" former Scott Walker Cabinet Secretary said Walker lacks integrity, advances his career at tremendous cost to Taxpayers and Families!!!

Who the hell is making all these former cabinet secretaries so disgruntled? Scott Walker, that's who.
AP: A fourth former Cabinet secretary Paul Jadin in Gov. Scott Walker's administration is speaking out against the Republican incumbent.
The others are former Corrections Secretary Ed Wall, former Financial Institutions Secretary Peter Bildsten, and former Transportation Department Secretary Mark Gottlieb.

Keep in mind Scott Walker was forced out and fired as chair of the Wisconsin Economic Development Committee.
Paul Jadin is a former mayor of Green Bay and was the first secretary of Walker's economic development agency, WEDC. 

In the letter, the former Walker officials urge voters to support Democrat Tony Evers for governor because Walker's administration "lacked integrity."
This was amazing as well:
Jadin says he quit his $208,000-a-year job at the Madison Regional Economic Partnership on Wednesday so he could comment freely.
As Jadin put it...
"We were proud to lead the way ... that pride evaporated at various times for each of us as we found ourselves disagreeing with both policy and practices within the administration that lacked integrity. It became clear that his focus was not on meeting his obligations to the public but to advancing his own political career at a tremendous cost to taxpayers and families.
"Disgruntled" Overused so Walker Quietly moves on...
Walker's campaign issued a statement praising work of the economic development agency since Jadin left, but did not address his criticisms of the governor.
Let's end this on another not so surprising conclusion...
"During the recall in 2012, he stopped attending cabinet meetings and delegated state business to his chief of staff and DOA Secretary. When he decided to run for president in 2015 he subordinated Wisconsin interests to those in Iowa and New Hampshire and his policy/budget proposals started to clash with members of his own party who still would have to stand for election in Wisconsin."

Walker's former transportation secretary Mark Gottlieb also said earlier this year that the GOP governor isn't telling the truth about road projects and is taking a high-risk gamble that could see the state invest billions of dollars in obsolete highways.

Monday, July 16, 2012

How does Selling our Cows to Vietnam create jobs in Wisconsin?

The conservative daily trash delivered to our house everyday, Wisconsin State Journal, had the most amazing editorial supporting the Vietnam (Trans-Pacific Partnership) trade deal: 
According to Paul Jadin, who leads the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation … Vietnam has the third fastest growing economy in the world, and it wants to buy more Wisconsin products, including dairy cows.
Dairy cows? It’s like selling the goose that lays the golden egg. Cows aren’t products, they provide the product, or am I missing something here? Once they're bred there, then Vietnam won't need anything else from us.

But in what can only be described as a surreal moment, the Wisconsin State Journal in supporting their case for a trade deal with Vietnam, claim the people there want taller children.
"They are coming right out and saying that 'We want your diet,'" Jadin said. Part of the attraction to Wisconsin food products is a desire by many Vietnamese people to have taller children, he added.

The Asian people are so short…?

One more point: Never having learned their lesson on offshoring our economy;
Trade, of course, is a two-way street. Some industries face tougher competition when barriers fall … Free trade allows more people access to more of what they want and need at better prices, which boosts the economy. It's not a zero-sum game.
Saving money at the checkout counter is a fair trade off for losing more jobs to offshore countries with slave labor like Vietnam? Really?

Saturday, June 30, 2012

WEDC leader Paul Jaden has message for Private Businesses, Bid Rigging Okay.

Let’s talk about certainty, shall we?

Just when you thought the state and Scott Walker did the right thing to make sure the state bidding process was fair to all businesses, Walker’s own corporate lackey Paul Jaden said not so fast. Jaden says bid rigging isn’t banned at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, so what's the big deal?

Talk about instilling a little “uncertainty” into the bidding process for companies hoping to create jobs through state contracting. 

Hey, if the state likes a certain campaign contributor…I mean company, who knows what backroom promises will be made to steer the winning bid their way. Bid rigging.
WSJ: From now on WEDC will ask companies if they are submitting or intend to submit a bid for state work before offering them incentives.
But ethically challenged Paul Jaden doesn’t see a problem:
AP: WEDC leader Paul Jadin told The Associated Press his legal team advised him that the offer to Skyward Inc. was allowed because the year-old agency isn't bound by procurement laws that forbid bid-rigging.
It's not illegal. Is he kidding?
"We're satisfied that we could make the offer. Jadin said he will be talking with Walker about pursuing legislation next year that would allow WEDC to make such contingency offers. He said his agency is still getting a "better handle on what areas we are clearly a state entity and what areas we are clearly private. That's evolving a bit yet."
It’s nice to know the “government” part of WEDC has to play fair, but the private part can bid rig. Don't you love the free market.

Dereliction of duty? It also looks like Jaden let the cat out of the bag concerning Walker’s national campaign fund raising tour at the state’s expense:
Jadin also said there was a breakdown in communication with the governor. He had been updating Walker weekly on pending projects, but those meetings ended in March as a "victim of the recall process," Jadin said.
Yeah, blame the recalls for forcing Walker to leave the state, ignoring the state's business, just to fund raise.