On Thursday, October 3rd at 10:00 AM C.T. Congressmen Darin LaHood (R-IL) and John Moolenaar (R-MI) will hold a roundtable in Manteno, Illinois on Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer Gotion High-Tech’s troubling connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the risks its planned facility in Illinois poses to America.
This event follows the Congressmen’s earlier roundtable in July at the site of Gotion’s other planned U.S. facility in Green Charter Township, Michigan.
Democratic lawmakers in both states have heaped massive subsidies on the projects. Gotion is in the process of receiving subsidies of $536 million from Illinois, and state and local incentives in Michigan are estimated to total $715 million. Gotion is also in line to receive $7.5 billion of federal tax credits for the Illinois plant alone under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Confirmed participants for the Manteno roundtable include:
1. Amanda Piker, Concerned Citizens of Manteno (Illinois)
2. Emily de La Bruyère, Co-Founder, Horizon Advisory
3. Robby Dube, Attorney, Eckland & Blando
4. Dan Caulkins, Illinois Representative, District 88 — Decatur.
At the roundtable, LaHood and Moolenaar will discuss the implications of Gotion’s ties to the CCP, its links to slave labor, and the battery plant’s potential threats to U.S. national security. Roundtable participants include community leaders, constituents, and experts. Officials from Gotion Inc. have also been invited to attend.
All are invited to attend live or join the livestream through the link here at 10:00 AM CT, Thursday. The event will be held at the Leo Hassett Community Center, 211 N Main St., Manteno, IL 60950.
Midwest Battery Roundtableyoutube.com
For a full history of Wirepoints’ reporting on Gotion, click here. Please see below for our most recent reporting on Gotion/EVs.
- Democratic support for Gotion cracking under public pressure as U.S. House votes unanimously to bar DHS use of its batteries
- With obstacles to Gotion’s EV battery plants mounting, panel including Rep. Darin LaHood demands a halt
- Gov. Pritzker shuns warnings from Biden Administration and top democrats about Chinese espionage
- Two new polls find broad voter opposition to Gotion project, the Chinese electric vehicle battery plant planned for Illinois
- All 4 of Illinois EV projects are now stalling. Daily Journal | Kankakee
- Rivian shaping up as another example of why government shouldn’t pick winners and losers
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
The gold facade of Pritzker’s claims to make Illinois green to help his Presidential ambitions is wearing quite thin and the underlying pile of stuff underneath it all is starting to show through. We can thank the Illinois media for helping Pritzker with his dreams along the way. Many of the public that buy these fish wraps will stop buying with final disgust. How sad that Pritzker destructions in Illinois will include the independent media but that’s how socialism works.
Correct me if I am wrong. Rep Darin Lahood is the useless RINO from Peoria IL who’s father Ray Lahood was Obama’s yes man Sec of Transportation.
Wrong.
Is this the Lahood referenced to? Sorry I’m not to informed. My wife just had her knee replaced 2 days ago after 6 years of waiting and is home now. Need to take care of her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin_LaHood
https://www.apnews.com/1ae5d139705d458f99043dc2211dcf78#
Yes. He is doing great work on Gotion. I spoke to him at the event today and I think he is doing all he can.
I lived in central Illinois for 62 years. I witnessed the Lahood family in office for their many terms. Darin and Ray are both useless in respect to not being fiscal conservatives. They are both Rinos. They voted to bury us in debt.