WI DNR Stepp's phony finger-pointing

{Updated] Having willingly led on behalf of corporate interests and ideology Scott Walker's demolition of the agency she blustered and mocked her way into leading, DNR Secretary and former builder
Cathy Stepp has followed Walker's finger-pointing lead by claiming that the weakened agency she now heads is just another victim of that bad old state legislature:

..."a GOP-controlled Legislature that has cut funding and reined in regulation. "Here's the cold, hard truth: They run things," said Stepp, a former home builder who was appointed by Walker in 2011.The DNR workforce has fallen 18% since 1995 to 2,558 employees, according to DNR figures.

This beaten-down, doing-'more'-with less Stepp must have an evil stepsister - - the reliable Walker water-carrier - - who likes Walker's erasing the DNR's role by telling the Legislature to cut and curtail the DNR;

DNR Secretary Defends Walker's Proposed Cuts to Agency

Oh, there she is again:

DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp defends Scott Walker's changes to advisory board

And not a peep from Stepp in the face of this Walker initiative:

Scott Walker's budget cuts $5.7 million from runoff pollution remedies

Note how Stepp changed the subject and suggested others - - like Counties -- could pick up the slack, and presto! - - problem solved:

On Wednesday, DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp told a gathering in Green Bay that fighting runoff pollution was a high priority. She likened counties to "boots on the ground" that get voluntary cooperation the DNR has struggled with... 

"Farmers trust their county conservationists. Farmers don't necessarily trust the DNR..."

Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh), a member of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee, also took a dim view of the cuts.

"You can't have it both ways," he said. "You can't say addressing runoff is a priority and undercut or underfund the very resources that do something about it." 

And before you say things like, 'well, that's how the game is played,' or 'she's just being a loyal appointee,' remember her attitude going in about DNR staff and work:

For example, people who go to work for the DNR's land, waste, and water bureaus tend to be anti-development, anti-transportation, and pro-garter snakes, karner blue butterflies, etc...This is in their nature; their make-up and DNA. So, since they're unelected bureaucrats who have only their cubicle walls to bounce ideas off of, they tend to come up with some pretty outrageous stuff that those of us in the real world have to contend with.