Opinion | Sen. Ron Johnson failed Wisconsinites with vote against infrastructure bill | Column

Nonetheless, I’m left questioning how Sen. Johnson may have voted in opposition to this bipartisan infrastructure invoice. It’s a job creator, a street fixer, a bridge builder, an web booster and can strengthen our financial system. Sen. Johnson himself has acknowledged we’d like infrastructure investments, however these have been hole phrases as he has been in opposition to this laws from the start.

What’s extra is the bipartisan infrastructure invoice may even make us way more aggressive with China, serving to our industrious metropolis stage the taking part in subject with a rustic that has stripped jobs from Manitowoc and different communities throughout Wisconsin. By voting in opposition to this laws, Johnson as soon as once more sided with China, simply as he did when he voted in opposition to the U.S. Innovation and Competitors Act, which goals to curtail China’s financial rigging.

As an alternative of combating to convey our tax {dollars} again to Wisconsin, which may put folks to work and put cash in Wisconsinites’ wallets, Johnson’s precedence has been giving tax handouts to the ultra-rich and big companies. Johnson is okay spending cash when it matches his private agenda, however for the remainder of us — the town of Manitowoc and Wisconsin — we aren’t even an afterthought.

I’m grateful and wish to thank the Democrats and Republicans who joined collectively to ship this infrastructure invoice as I understand how transformative will probably be for Manitowoc. Sen. Johnson has forgotten about us throughout his 11 years in Washington. I, and the town I signify, bear in mind who stands up for us and who casts us apart; we won’t neglect that Sen. Johnson stood in opposition to a win for all of us.