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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5226298" data-attributes="member: 58386">The elected officials of both the city and state took the oath of office to protect the public interest not the Bezos Empire's interest. That's what you're forgetting. They gave. him an offer that many other cities couldn't because they too are bound to their oath of office. If that offer wasn't to his liking because it came with conditions , well that's his problem.As for the Foxcomm deal the taxpayers of Wisconsin hoarked up a 2.85 billion dollar hairball  of concessions to him as well as using eminent domain to drive out and relocate the entire population of a small town in order to give Foxcomm the location it wanted to build a complex Foxcomm claimed would create 13,000 new jobs. Want to know how many jobs it ended up creating?.....178.</blockquote>