By: Mark Glennon, founder of Wirepoints

Manteno, Illinois voters on April 1 elected staunch Gotion opponents to the offices of village president, city clerk and at least one of three village board positions that were up for election. Gotion is the highly controversial Chinese company with extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party, building an electric vehicle battery plant in Manteno. Gotion’s Manteno plant and a similar one that had been planned for Michigan have garnered national and international headlines and became a national campaign issue last fall. The Illinois project is subsidized with $536 million from the State of Illinois.

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