Familiar slam. No dunk.

True to form, Republican candidates are using the Solar City / Tesla factory as a whipping boy for Democratic candidates.
Predictable and boring.

Comptroller candidate Jonathan Trichter went after Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli over the Buffalo Billion.  And we all know that the Buffalo Billion is nothing but a capitalist scam.  It's an example of a public - private partnership.   The public pays all the bills and private companies reap and keep all the profits.  It could be built by the public and run as a cooperative, but that never enters the discussion.  Coops don't donate money to political campaigns. 

What is this really? A failure of capitalism.  Cost over runs that opponents always bring up?  Can we talk about over runs in the military budget?  Yes,  I know it's a state issue vs a federal issue.  However,  when bringing up fiscal responsibility the Republican party doesn't have a leg to stand upon with how they have run up the deficit & want to put the costs on tbe back of the working class. 

And Elon Musk is known for big talk, small walk.  His electric cars are ... I'm still waiting to see one here in WNY. I doubt it could handle the snow.  (Frozen battery anyone?)  We have an how many regional colleges with Engineering Departments that could do the R&D.  Many more that have Business Departments that could handle the management. Much of our solar technology is coming out of colleges, so why not let them handle it?

The big problem that Republicans have with the project is that they were not in power when the project was announced and they did not propose the funding scheme that freely gave tax dollars to private corporations without accountability or oversight.  There are a plethora of examples from other states where Republicans gave tax dollars to private companies and the projects went bust.  And they defend it by talking about the failures of the private companies and not Republican leadership.

Instead of wasting our tax dollars on these capitalist get rich quick schemes,  we need to help workers develop their own companies that can compete and grow.  We do not need capitalist saviors that take our tax dollars out of town and state.  We need to develop our own talent that keeps the profits in our own communities.

No sunshine here Trichter.
Just another Republican trick.