This blog has repeatedly posted information about policy-making positions and favors which Scott Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality' Department of Natural Resources has thrown to insiders and their special interest agendas.
Walker's DNR and the ideologically-driven Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel have been working closely to punch holes in the state constitution's protection of common water rights so that big ag can have all the groundwater it wants.
In fact, there are so few rules anymore in the corporatized state which Walker and his allies have wrought here through gerrymandering and free-flowing campaign cash that big ag put its recent gimme demands for unfettered access to state groundwater in writing and hand-delivered them to legislators just in case the lawmakers didn't know who was buttering their bread.
So big props to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign for finding and publicizing a torrent of campaign donations to the Walker campaign from two corporate ag operations which won controversial well water permits from the DNR without having to account for the impact those withdrawals would have downstream or on the depth of the water table:
Walker's DNR and the ideologically-driven Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel have been working closely to punch holes in the state constitution's protection of common water rights so that big ag can have all the groundwater it wants.
In fact, there are so few rules anymore in the corporatized state which Walker and his allies have wrought here through gerrymandering and free-flowing campaign cash that big ag put its recent gimme demands for unfettered access to state groundwater in writing and hand-delivered them to legislators just in case the lawmakers didn't know who was buttering their bread.
So big props to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign for finding and publicizing a torrent of campaign donations to the Walker campaign from two corporate ag operations which won controversial well water permits from the DNR without having to account for the impact those withdrawals would have downstream or on the depth of the water table:
One of the permits was granted to James Wysocki, of Bancroft, for a well located in Pine Grove in Portage County. Wysocki and several members of his family own the Wysocki Family of Companies, which operates large vegetable and dairy farms.
The owners of the Wysocki Family of Companies contributed about $31,000 to Walker between January 2010 and August 2016...And you wonder why there are dead zones in Wisconsin lakes near big feedlots and manure-contaminated rural wells?
