Paul Soglin was for corporate welfare for Foxconn before he was against it

Prior to entering the very large Democratic primary field for Governor of Wisconsin, Paul Soglin publicly opposed Scott Walker's corporate welfare giveaway to Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which will result in billions of dollars of Wisconsinites' taxpayer dollars being used to fund a private corporation.

However, just a couple of weeks or so before Soglin publicly compared the Foxconn giveaway to $100 million NFL tickets, he was all in for corporate welfare for Foxconn if they set up shop in Madison, which is the city where Soglin is currently mayor:

Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said Thursday he is recommending Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn take over the shuttered Oscar Mayer site or either of two undeveloped sites on the city’s edges for what is believed to be a possible medical-related facility.

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The mayor said he would be willing to consider offering tax incremental financing for a potential Foxconn project, but he said the city will not give away the property.

Tax incremental financing is a common way for municipalities in Wisconsin and other states to basically hand over taxpayer dollars to private corporations, with taxpayers getting little or no benefit in return. Soglin, like Walker, is a major proponent of corporate welfare in Wisconsin; in Soglin's case, he supported the controversial Judge Doyle Square project in Madison that was originally designed to benefit Exact Sciences, a company owned by Kevin Conroy, who had been repeatedly floated as a possible Democratic gubernatorial candidate over the past decade or so. Exact Sciences later pulled out of the Judge Doyle Square project.

I'm not going to endorse a candidate in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary until after my home state of Illinois holds its gubernatorial primaries, but I will say that I won't endorse Paul Soglin for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Wisconsin.