GOP Wisconsin Treasurer Goes To War With State Board Over Climate Change

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Source: Talkingpointsmemo.com




GOP Wisconsin Treasurer Goes To War With State Board Over Climate Change


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ByCaitlin MacNeal PublishedJanuary 21, 2015, 12:53 PM EST 7653 views

The new Republican state treasurer in Wisconsin has launched a bizarre mission to destroy the state's Board of Commissioners of Public Land.

State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk is trying to cancel the board's New York Times subscription, remove references to climate change from its website, and oust the board's executive secretary, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Adamczyk has targeted the executive secretary, Tia Nelson, overconcerns about her influence over the board, according to the Journal Sentinel. Nelson is the daughter of the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson and has served on Wisconsin's global warming task force.

"I don't see a role in this board to do anything else (outside its mission), like become a Wisconsin version of the Environmental Protection Agency," Adamczyk said at a board meeting on Tuesday. "I just think in some cases things might be straying."......




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So many things are going down the tube in Wisconsin these last 4 years. This is bizarre

[riversedge]

1. And the Teabagger does not want the agency to read the NYtimes....

Oh my--He wants Wisconsin to become another Palin Alaska. What a narrow-minded little peabrain.


Another article about this issue:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/new-wisconsin-treasurer-makes-waves-in-role-on-obscure-state-board-b99429552z1-289233071.html

........At Tuesday's meeting, the board took up a host of other issues raised by Adamczyk, including the board's subscription to The New York Times.

"First and foremost, this is completely unnecessary," Adamczyk wrote in a Dec. 22 email to Nelson. "We live in Wisconsin and we don't need a subscription to this publication."

Nelson responded that she and other staff read the Times along with the other newspapers they subscribe to — The Wall Street Journal, Lakeland Times, Wisconsin State Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

"It's been my view that having a diversity of news sources has been helpful," Nelson said at Tuesday's meeting.............




Journal Sentinel files
State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk (left) has clashed with Tia Nelson (right), the secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Land, a state board Adamczyk helps lead as part of his role as state treasurer.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Another no-nothing. HVAC is his area of expertise. Oh, wait...weather. I get it. Not.

A dweeb and a child.

[riversedge]

3. He eats too many noodles IMHO--and the blubber

has infiltrated his pea-brain

[CurtEastPoint]

4. They are SOOOOO predictable! Even as a baby I'm sure his Repube-ishness stood out.

[Fred Sanders]

5. And how much green cash did the Kochs feed him to regurgitate their lies?

[dembotoz]

6. want to replace it with one of murdocks english rags with naked girls in it

[mountain grammy]

7. What a dirtbag. Who elected this idiot?

oh never mind, we have our own idiot climate change deniers elected by my neighbors.

[tclambert]

8. Didn't he hear? The Senate voted that climate change is real.

98-1. Republican senators say it's real, even James Inhofe. They just deny that people had anything to do with it.

[riversedge]

11. Until Repups admit humans are the cause-NOthing WILL CHANGE

[tclambert]

12. Pretty sure they think it's cows. Or maybe trees.

Reagan blamed trees for pollution. But cows make methane, a potent greenhouse gas. So maybe if we eat more chicken . . . ?

[onehandle]

9. Mississippi 2.0 nt

[riversedge]

10. A Blog article on issue.....The repressive authoritarian Republican agenda continues to get

http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2015/01/republican-state-treasurer-adamczyk.html?spref=tw


Wednesday, January 21, 2015


Republican State Treasurer Adamczyk promises to abolish office, bashes EPA, wants to cancel the NY Times and fire Tia Nelson for concern over Global Warming.


The repressive authoritarian Republican agenda continues to get little coverage in the mainstream media, despite the threat it poses to public policy and our founding document, that pesky constitution.

It may be a small story to some, but it’s a revealing window into the conservative mindset of top down one party control over everything........

Petty and mean spirited, Republicans continue to target as enemies of the authority, liberal-progressive-Democratic Wisconsinites. These disloyal elements will be forced out eventually. Patrick Marley-jsonline: .............


Predictably, Republican Adamczyk ran for office with the intention to destroy it (what's new, right), and voters thought, "hell yes." Kind of an odd way to get that done:

Matt Adamczyk wants to abolish the state treasurer’s office so badly, he’s running for the office to do it. “Let’s get rid of this thing,” the Republican told Wisconsin Reporter. “There’s three staff (in the treasurer’s office). I’m not retaining anyone. I will get this done. I will pound this issue every single day.

This jolly rotund fellow then went to work:

[blackspade]

13. The irony hurts....

"I don't see a role in this board to do anything else (outside its mission), like become a Wisconsin version of the Environmental Protection Agency," Adamczyk said at a board meeting on Tuesday. "I just think in some cases things might be straying."......

Kind of like the state treasurer going after the land commission?

[Scuba]

14. These fuckwits are ruining my great state. Our water, schools and democracy all despoiled.

[riversedge]

15. K and R

[MBS]

16. You took the words right out of my mouth

Walker and his minions have destroyed the state of Wisconsin. Their environmental destruction is possibly the worst: here is Wisconsin, in many ways the birthplace of the conservation movement.. now in the hands of cretins who seem hellbent in destroying everything this state stands for.
AWFUL.
Is there any chance of getting a Dem senator to replace Ron Johnson in 2016? and a Dem for the next governor (if the state is still in existence after 4 more years of this wretched administration . )