Cathy Stepp, Perhaps: 'What...The Governor's Office Is Calling...This Late?'
The DNR press release machinery isn't usually in overdrive on a Sunday, but today was an exception, because...
DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp had avoided being interviewed by Ron Seely for his Sunday blockbuster story about the agency's passive response to the dumping of human waste - -
...Stepp, who declined several requests to be interviewed for this story...
Why wasn’t the story just about the facts and the differing views of the appropriate level of punishment? Why didn’t it include all of the facts?Stepp's appointment, from the beginning, was a huge mistake, and her track record proves it.
Tonight she's pathetic.
3 comments:
Reading that press release it becomes clear that Sec Stepp doesn't understand the difference between writing for taxpayers and writing for RealDebateWisconsin (sic.)
Stepp says the record keeping was "sloppy." From the way the record keeping was described, it was not sloppy -- it was deliberately falsified to hide the company's violation of the law. There is a huge difference. This episode gives the message that companies can feel free to violate the law, falsify their records, pay a minimal fine and then go on with business as usual.
Stepp doesn't dispute a single thing that Seely reported and in fact both affirms the reporting and admits the story has inspired her department to look more closely for conflicts of interest in the future. So what's her problem?
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