Jan Rogers was the Director of the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization (SEIDO) located in Twin Falls. She resigned from that position sometime in the summer of 2015. The announcement of her appointment to the Regional Economic Development Corporation (REDI) says that REDI was formed out of two economic development organizations – one in Bonneville County and one in Bingham County.
“We are thrilled to have Jan Rogers join REDI as CEO” said Park Price, President REDI and the Chairman of the Bank of Idaho”.
According to a REDI press release on July 23, Rogers is responsible for the “Magic Valley Miracle” because of SEIDO’s success in landing food manufacturing giants such as Chobani and Clif Bar.
SEIDO
SEIDO is embedded in the office of the President of the College of Southern Idaho. The following is a diagram on the various entities that are operating from within the College of Southern Idaho (CSI) that have nothing to do with the mission of educating Idaho young people.
Notice that Jan Rogers is or was on the Board of Directors of the International Economic Development Council. And she is connected with Obama’s Select USA program that seeks foreign direct investment in the U.S. They are not particular where the money comes from – nor are they concerned about destroying the culture and character of American rural communities. In fact, their objective is to destroy that culture and character by changing the demographics, the politics and the “governing structure” of the region.
While Jan Rogers was at SEIDO, she brought Chobani, Inc. formerly Agro Farma to Twin Falls. Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani is a Turkish Kurd. He came to the U.S. in 1994 as an exchange student. There is a lot to say about Hamdi Ulukaya that that can’t be said here because the story is too long. Suffice it to say that the Fulton County Economic Development Corporation in New York ensured his success by facilitating substantial loans and grants to him from banks, but also the state and federal governments. He had the political support of Senator Chuckie Schumer and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during the New York phase of Agro Farma. When the pieces of the puzzle of Hamdi Ulukaya are all laid on the table, they don’t fit a normal business model. He was given extraordinary assistance that he was not qualified on any level to get.
In Twin Falls, Jan Rogers of SEIDO also extended extraordinary assistance to Ulukaya. The Deal Sheet that was published on the Twin Falls City website showed that Ulukaya, an alleged billionaire put in only $18,000 on a $25 million deal for the property and infrastructure requirements for Chobani in Twin Falls. Curiously, that $18,000 was for water meters.
While researching Ulukaya’s activities in New York, I found a publication produced by the Fulton-Montgomery Community College that explains the new role for Community Colleges in “governance” of regions. The title of the publication is “Community Colleges: Partners in Community Development”. On pages 15-16, it says the following concerning the role of community colleges: