On the same day that Wisconsin GOP Scott Walker - - architect of the "chamber of commerce mentality" Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - - thought aloud and sent a strong signal about breaking up the agency, I disclosed that decision-makers within the agency for at least the second time had deleted and sanitized much content and language on a key DNR climate change page.
This is after multiple cuts to or attacks on DNR staffing, budgets, parks operations, pollution prevention and overall mission since the beginning of the Walker administration and its ability through one-party Republican rule over all three branches of the government and the Attorney General's office to do without restraint whatever it wanted to public policy and programs.
When it comes to statewide conservation, clean air, healthy drinking water, vibrant parks and trails and sustaining an entire outdoors and recreation lifestyle and economy, we're getting closer to changing Wisconsin's motto from "Forward" to "There is your dagger" through intentional neglect and purchase by corporate money.
Slowing, stopping and reversing this theft of a commonly-owned legacy will be a defining, existential challenge to Wisconsin conservationists, grassroots organizations and citizens regardless of party who want to pass on to their children and grandchildren what had long been cherished, nurtured and handed down here as birthright.
A huge task which must be shouldered by groups, activists, and everyday state residents beaten down by six years of big money, single-party autocracy and the specter of years of a worse and companion rightist Kleptocracy in Washington, DC from which Walker is already seeking more freedom to diminish ours.
Our only choice is to stand our ground, and as US Sen. Elizabeth Warren said immediately after Trump's win, recommit and get more involved.
This is after multiple cuts to or attacks on DNR staffing, budgets, parks operations, pollution prevention and overall mission since the beginning of the Walker administration and its ability through one-party Republican rule over all three branches of the government and the Attorney General's office to do without restraint whatever it wanted to public policy and programs.
When it comes to statewide conservation, clean air, healthy drinking water, vibrant parks and trails and sustaining an entire outdoors and recreation lifestyle and economy, we're getting closer to changing Wisconsin's motto from "Forward" to "There is your dagger" through intentional neglect and purchase by corporate money.
Slowing, stopping and reversing this theft of a commonly-owned legacy will be a defining, existential challenge to Wisconsin conservationists, grassroots organizations and citizens regardless of party who want to pass on to their children and grandchildren what had long been cherished, nurtured and handed down here as birthright.
A huge task which must be shouldered by groups, activists, and everyday state residents beaten down by six years of big money, single-party autocracy and the specter of years of a worse and companion rightist Kleptocracy in Washington, DC from which Walker is already seeking more freedom to diminish ours.
Our only choice is to stand our ground, and as US Sen. Elizabeth Warren said immediately after Trump's win, recommit and get more involved.
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