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Robin Vos: “We have so little control over WEDC now, it's kind of a big…”

Featuring: Robin Vos, Republican | Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly

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WisPolitics and State Affairs: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos

Published | Video Starts at 49:45

Well, it's really hard. I mean, one of the things that, you know, we fund, WMEP Wisconsin Manufacturing Partnership. The challenge is even in our own economic development system where We have so little control over WEDC now, it's kind of a big bureaucracy that I don't think accomplishes very much. But what they do accomplish is they are focused. Wait a minute that was created under Walker, it was, and I look back now and we gave too much authority to this independent board who has zero oversight of the agency. (49:45–49:51)

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Asserts that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is a large bureaucracy with limited effectiveness.

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