I had recently catalogued at least 33 ways that Walker had spurned or outright trashed science when enforcing his 'chamber of commerce mentality' on people and the environment statewide.
The good news is that Tony Evers' repair-the-damage budget
would add ten science or specialist positions at the DNR where Walker had stripped away expertise and institutional memory while turning a conservation agency into a defacto Department of Commerce.
The bad news is that Walker had cut many more DNR positions, targeting scientists because GOP Senator and State Capitol corporate water-carrier Tom Tiffany told him to make the cuts.
A role which Vos ran with after being told to do so by some of state's largest polluting agricultural lobbies.
The good news is that Tony Evers' repair-the-damage budget
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would add ten science or specialist positions at the DNR where Walker had stripped away expertise and institutional memory while turning a conservation agency into a defacto Department of Commerce.
The bad news is that Walker had cut many more DNR positions, targeting scientists because GOP Senator and State Capitol corporate water-carrier Tom Tiffany told him to make the cuts.
State Sen. Tom Tiffany has owned up to asking for job cuts to DNR scientists, who he has said focus too much on climate change.
On Friday’s Devil’s Advocate radio show, the Hazelhurst Republican said he asked Gov. Scott Walker and his staff to include a provision in the state budget axing approximately 17 positions from the Department of Natural Resources’ Science Services Bureau...
The measure prompted layoff notices for 27 staffers in the science bureau, as well as 30 others in the DNR's communications and education section.I would expect GOP Assembly Speaker and self-appointed shadow governor Robin Vos to excise Evers' proposed DNR science initiatives because Vos played a role in exploding the number of high-capacity wells which stress state ground water supplies and fuel the polluting expansion of large state dairy operations known as CAFOs.
A role which Vos ran with after being told to do so by some of state's largest polluting agricultural lobbies.
