When he won election as Milwaukee County Executive in 2002, Scott Walker urged people to write down his campaign pledges and put them up on their refrigerators to hold him accountable.
I'd suggested in November we start this little refrigerator score-keeping, but now we can begin with something tangible:
"Governor-elect Walker is committed to making transparent decisions that are based on the law and sound science."
The speaker is Walker's DNR Secretary-Designee, home-builder Cathy Stepp, who made the statement last Thursday in an email to all DNR staffers that I obtained and posted.
We'll see, as the DNR and other state agencies move to "streamline" (her term) state rule-making and development permitting if she and Walker keep that pledge, and if it extends to hearing processes, open meetings, open records, Great Lakes diversion application reviews, Environmental Impact Statement crafting, highway planning and other essentials of public policy-making that have environmental consequences.
So cut this out and put it on your refrigerator; let's all keep track, and keep Walker on track, too:
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"Governor-elect Walker
is committed to making transparent decisions
that are based on the law and sound science."
Cathy Stepp. DNR Secretary-Designee, 12/30/10
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I totally agree and I will be doing just that. If the DNR holds themselves to these 3 principles I will be well satisfied. Some of the current DNR programs are based not on sound science, but rather silly science and I would offer the “plant a tree to save a polar bear” program as just one example.
ReplyDeletehttp://dnr.wi.gov/forestry/PolarBear/
It is absolutely incredible that this is what public funds are being spent on and if this program survives the Walker and Stepp administration, I will be joining the movement to have them removed.