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Warning: petty partisanship ahead. Our last Republican governor in Illinois spent some quality time trashing this company, which sure looks shortsighted in ret
by perardi 7y ago
Warning: petty partisanship ahead.
Our last Republican governor in Illinois spent some quality time trashing this company, which sure looks shortsighted in retrospect: https://www.adaptbn.com/home/2018/5/16/breaking-rauner-criticizes-rivian-for-not-employing-well-over-1000-people-despite-the-company-being-ahead-of-estimates https://www.adaptbn.com/home/2018/5/16/breaking-rauner-criti...
He also made a point to trash all of Central Illinois as a place to do business, which is a heck of a strategy for business development. https://www.news-gazette.com/news/rauner-apologizes-for-remarks-that-undervalued-c-u/article_12524dab-d72d-56db-b8f9-a33e778d15b2.html https://www.news-gazette.com/news/rauner-apologizes-for-rema...
Anyway, yay, the auto plant that funded my upbringing is back in action.
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- notdonspaulding 7y agoFellow Normalite here, you still in the area? Would love to talk shop with a local Hacker Newser. Email in my profile if you're interested.
- larrywright 7y agoWow, I would not have expected to find so many Normalites here.
- robmiller 7y agoChecking in. Grew up in Decatur/Forsyth.
- vutekst 7y agoSame! Also a Normalite here.
- uchman 7y agoEx-kinda-Normalite here. I went to ISU
- riantogo 7y agoHey there. Graduated from ISU and Fat Jacks.
- larrywright 7y agoGreat place to get a drink. So is Fat Jacks.
- fardin1368 7y agoSpent 7 years in Urbana-Champaign. 45 minutes from Normal. There is huuuge potential in that area.
- larrywright 7y agoI’ve spent a lot of time there - agreed.
- codetrotter 7y agoYour email address is not visible to others unless you put it in the about field along with the other text you have there.
- notdonspaulding 7y agoThanks for the tip! Updated my profile with my email address.
- beat 7y agoI grew up in Bloomington, the closest city in the world to Normal. I moved away before the Mitsubishi plant was built, tho.
- lp251 7y agomy father worked at the Mitsubishi plant for 20-something years. left a few years before they shut down. spent 5 years at Tesla. he just started at rivian, back in the old Mitsubishi plant. has to be surreal
- perardi 7y agoMy dad started way back in 1989, and had the fortune to take an early retirement package. Now he spends his days doing adult enrichment at Bradley University. Living the sweet mid-century union dream.
- Iwan-Zotow 7y ago> adult enrichment at Bradley University do you have video in HD?
- cheez 7y agoDoes he blame your generation for being lazy
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoA politician from the Chicago area trashed downstate. <surprised Pikachu> There's a saying about tigers and stripes for exactly this situation. Anyone who thought he would be good for downstate because he had an R beside his name was thinking very wishfully.
- trenning 7y agoSome friends used to make an annual trip down there. It was where the DSMs were built so it was a fun drive down in our loud rattleboxes. Neat they're using the plant again.
- perardi 7y agoOh man, the old turbo Eclipse. Now that was a car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Eclipse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Eclipse They don't build them like they used to. Probably for a reason. My dad heard gossip at the plant they had to move away from the racer boy turbo platform because they were just too astronomically expensive to insure–because they were invariably driven by 20-something guys who wrapped them around trees. And as an adult male who has driven a WRX: yes, that tracks.
- aidenn0 7y agoMy dad had a '91 Plymouth Laser RS and he sold it because it basically said to the cops "point radar gun here." He had to take one ticket to court because he was being passed by a Caddy, and the gun picked up their speed rather than his. It was a blast to drive though.
- olivermarks 7y agoWonderful car
- eclipxe 7y agoLoved my GSX.