Wisconsin DNR reorganization not out of line, says former Dem secretary

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/steven_elbow/wisconsin-dnr-reorganization-not-out-of-line-says-former-dem/article_64421e26-254a-52cd-afc8-15beb56d9b19.html

State Rep. Nick Milroy, D-South Range, was quick to pounce on the state Department of Natural Resources plan to dissolve its Division of Enforcement and Science and have its managers report directly to DNR administrators.

In this internal memo from Monday, DNR Secretray Cathy Stepp lays out the plan.

Milroy, of South Range, a member of the Assembly Environment and Forestry Committee, calls it a Republican power grab.

“When you have a political appointee that you have to report directly to, that’s just a red flag for an employee that you need to do the bidding of your supervisor,” he says in this Businessnorth.com story.

But former DNR Secretary Scott Hassett, a Democrat, doesn't have a problem with it.

"I don’t see this as some insidious move," says Hassett, who ran the department from 2003 to 2007 under former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle. "It’s something I was considering myself."

In the memo, Stepp explains that the chief warden will now report directly to her deputy secretary, Matt Moroney. The science component of the division will be folded into the Office of Business Support and Sustainability and report to that office's director, Al Shea.

[Scuba]

1. The "science component" will report to the Office of Business Support and Sustainability? Bad idea.

[ewagner]

2. Office of science..

reporting to the office of business support...

does that mean that Science will be rewritten/spun to support business interests?

It could be...

[hue]

3. It certainly looks like it-->I mean that's the way the RW'ers roll....