U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group and Mark Glennon of Wirepoints. | Wirepoints
U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group and Mark Glennon of Wirepoints. | Wirepoints
Even left-leaning Politico had to acknowledge it, their headline being, “How a tiny town sent a big message to China — and Biden.”
Ordinary citizens pulled off the extraordinary on Tuesday, recalling the entire slate of township supervisors who supported Gotion’s construction of a lithium battery factory for electric vehicles in their township. Gotion is a Chinese company with multiple links to the Chinese Communist Party. Wasting not a minute, replacement candidates opposing the project immediately took over township offices and changed the locks to keep the defeated out.
That was in Michigan, but Gotion has a nearly identical project planned for Manteno, Illinois, where citizens are equally incensed. The projects are to be subsidized with billions of dollars of state and federal taxpayer money.
Opponents in Manteno are now super-organized. They’ve formed an organization with a website collecting money, hired a lawyer, run a Facebook page and more.
We interviewed former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group, a leading critic of both the Michigan and Illinois Gotion projects.
The Michigan and Illinois Gotion plants are pet projects of Governors Gretchen Whitmer and JB Pritzker, respectively. However, statewide polling in Michigan and Illinois confirm broad opposition to the projects. Results of the Illinois poll are summarized below.
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