Governor Youngkin Actions and Reactions
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Ford–China Battery Plant Agreement Would Have Been a ‘Trojan Horse’: Gov. Youngkin
Last week, Youngkin blocked the Ford Motor Company’s request to build a battery manufacturing plant over national security concerns. The automaker has an ongoing agreement with CATL to supply batteries to Ford’s electric vehicles.
This agreement qualifies CATL to receive lucrative production tax benefits under the new Inflation Reduction Act, according to a Bloomberg report. The report also said that the ownership structure of the deal would be Ford owning 100 percent of the plant and CATL owning the technology and operations of the facility.
“I’d much rather have a good clean deal than one that’s embroiled in controversy, and one that is going to promote the Chinese Communist Party,” Youngkin said during a Jan. 20 interview with Bloomberg. “It won’t be one that uses kind of a Trojan horse relationship with the Chinese Communist Party in order to gain.”
The Epoch Times reached out to Ford Motor Company for comment.
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Glenn Youngkin: Communist China Tries Using ‘Trojan Horse’ To Get Access To Reap U.S. Taxpayer Benefits
Youngkin said the plant would have been operated by China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology and would have been a “trojan horse structure to gain access to taxpayer incentives” legislation that Democrats passed which gives credits to consumers for purchasing electric vehicles.
“This is using taxpayer money to further enrich a Chinese company at the expense of America. It’s just not happening in Virginia,” Youngkin said. “This should be an American supply chain that’s trusted, not one that’s outsourced to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Youngkin rejected Ford’s $3.5 billion push for the factory last month. The plant, which was under consideration for Pittsylvania County in the southwestern part of Old Dominion, would have made lithium iron phosphate batteries for electric vehicles and employed as many as 2,500 workers.
“The consortium of Ford and CATL were hoping to build a plant, as reported and confirmed by Ford, where Ford would build the building, but a company that is majorly influenced by the Chinese Communist Party was going to operate the plant, and the employees were going to work for the Chinese Communist Party controlled company,” Youngkin said last month. “They were going to use that in order to try to tap into taxpayer benefits at state level as well as the federal level that were specifically designated for non-Chinese communist party entities.” Youngkin told reporters he was uncomfortable with a CCP-connected company benefiting from Virginia tax dollars, adding that he felt the deal’s structure was “a bit deceptive.”
Yesterday, the far-left Associated Press ran some terrific election integrity news dressed up in a costume of liberal outrage headlined, “Supreme Court's conservative justices leave in place Virginia's purge of voter registrations.” The Purge, coincidentally, was a murderous 2013 political Horror Movie. It’s probably nothing.
CLIP: Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Sears, a naturalized citizen herself, is incredulous at trial judge ordering the state to retain illegal voters (2:11).
I bet you could already tell it was good news from the petulant AP’s snarky and fatuous headline. The AP is also crazy enough to want to put illegal aliens back on the voting rolls. But yesterday, the Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal by Virginia’s Governor Glenn Youngkin (R). The decision broke 6-3, with the three liberal justices dissenting, who offered no rationale for supporting illegal voting.
It started early this week when Biden’s Department of Justice sued Virginia, which was minding its own business, straightening up its voting rolls, removing non-citizens and, apropos for Halloween, removing ghost voters, long-dead people who somehow still keep voting. The cleanup was authorized on a law passed years ago by a Democrat administration in Virginia that the DOJ had pre-approved.
But earlier this week, the cowardly DOJ, too yellow-bellied to admit they wanted to retain illegal voters, argued the cleanup started “too late,” because removing dead illegals from the voter lists has to start early enough for the dead voters to have a say, or something. The logic wasn’t entirely clear. Nevertheless, the DOJ somehow got a trial judge to go along with their tardy reasoning, and Virginia appealed.
After the appeals court reversed the trial court’s goofy decision, the DOJ appealed to the Supreme Court, which as noted, swatted it aside without evem bothering to write an opinion (which, to be honest, is common in emergency appeal situations). Governor Younkin, pleased with the result, said Virginia now has the cleanest voting rolls in the country:
CLIP: Younkin brags about how solid Virginia’s voter lists are and encourages everyone to come vote (1:06).
Be encouraged. We’ve lost one or two, but we are winning the vast majority of critical election law cases. The Trump team is also promptly suing this time, teeing up the most egregious interference cases for subsequent review, since last time many courts dodged having to rule by saying the President waited too long to sue over obvious voter interference and local incompetence.
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