ICYMI: ‘Hypocrite Barnes strikes again’

Last month, Georgia-Pacific announced plans to close its paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, impacting “approximately 190 jobs,” according to the company.

Mandela Barnes was quick to decry the closure of the mill on Twitter. However, he was conveniently silent when his boss, Gov. Evers, vetoed a bill that could have reopened two shuttered paper mills in Wisconsin.

Empower Wisconsin: “What Barnes left out in his snarky tweet (besides Georgia-Pacific’s $500 million investment creating hundreds of jobs at a second Green Bay mill) is that his boss at his day job, Gov. Tony Evers, vetoed a bill that could have reopened two shuttered paper mills in Wisconsin Rapids and Park Falls.

“It was one of many examples of Evers picking winners and losers with the billions of dollars in federal COVID relief fund at his disposal.

“The bill called for the governor to authorize the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to offer $65 million in loans to a group of timber professionals to purchase and operate the mills. The project, advocates said, would have brought back hundreds of jobs to communities devastated when the mills shut down.”

Empower Wisconsin: “Barnes insists he’s running to ‘put an end to factory closings.’ Apparently he’s not all that concerned about factory re-openings, particularly if doing so gets in the way of the Evers-Barnes liberal agenda.”