By Larry Rulison
President Donald Trump's praise of an Apple
supplier's decision to spend $10 billion for a Wisconsin campus — and
his remarks that upstate New Yorkers should go where the jobs are — left
some in his home state disheartened.
Foxconn
Technology Group announced Wednesday at a White House event with Trump
that it would build a new liquid crystal display factory in southeastern
Wisconsin and create up to 13,000 jobs over time.
Wisconsin beat out New York, which had been a finalist in
Foxconn's selection process and had pitched a 400-acre location outside
of Utica owned by SUNY Polytechnic Institute called the Marcy
Nanocenter.
Trump's praise of Wisconsin and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou came a day
after he trashed upstate New York and the state's job creation efforts,
in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Tuesday night.
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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
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