Fitzgerald: Bid To Lure Foxconn Likely Needs Legislative Help

The Wisconsin Senate’s top Republican says the Legislature may have to pass a bill to help lure a Taiwanese technology company bring a plant to Wisconsin.

Foxconn, best known for making Apple’s iPhone, is looking to build a display panel factory in the United States with several states in the running.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he “can’t imagine” the state wouldn’t do something to compete for Foxconn’s plant. But he said he doesn’t know what that would look like.

Fitzgerald also told the newspaper he attended a barbecue Tuesday night at Gov. Scott Walker’s official residence where Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou was a guest.