Elissa Slotkin signed a nondisclosure agreement with the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to discuss two projects in the state.
The Chinese company the post referred to is Gotion, an American subsidiary of Chinese company Gotion High-Tech Co. Ltd. Michigan’s government gave the company millions in grants and tax incentives to build aSlotkin signed — part of which was excerpted in the Michigan GOP X post — was not with Gotion. It was with the Michigan Economic Development Corp., a public-private partnership that works on business development in Michigan.Rogers has also attacked Slotkin over the agreement.
Camp Grayling is a military training camp in Michigan about 100 miles north of Green Charter Township, where the Gotion plant is planned.Gotion grants of up to $175 million in state business development money to build a battery manufacturing plant in Green Charter Township, near Big Rapids. The project is also set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives..
On Dec. 13, 2022, nearly three months after the Gotion project became public, Slotkin signed an amendment that broadly extended her confidentiality agreement to other projects the economic development group was working on.by Gotion that showed it had talked with the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and other lawmakers after the project was announced.