tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post1142008834210538910..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Radical Leadership At Wisconsin DNR Gets Big Media ExposureJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-90811798219085509272011-01-25T14:13:43.433-06:002011-01-25T14:13:43.433-06:00Betsey nails it.Betsey nails it.James Rowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-27000688191878703392011-01-25T13:37:57.021-06:002011-01-25T13:37:57.021-06:00I thought that the Stepp blog post you link to was...I thought that the Stepp blog post you link to was her cover letter for her DNR job application.Betseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-84433365102755797822011-01-23T22:19:47.233-06:002011-01-23T22:19:47.233-06:00To the last Anon:
http://www.nflhuddle.com/2011/01...To the last Anon:<br />http://www.nflhuddle.com/2011/01/23/pft-players-tweet-criticism-of-cutler/James Rowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-59488780294467999742011-01-23T19:43:36.195-06:002011-01-23T19:43:36.195-06:00Let there be no illusion that Stepp will oversee a...Let there be no illusion that Stepp will oversee a smooth application process for a Great Lakes diversion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-37319146637251191362011-01-23T16:22:22.142-06:002011-01-23T16:22:22.142-06:00I'm not sure what to make of Annie K's com...I'm not sure what to make of Annie K's comments. Do they imply that Stepp will try to appeal to racists (e.g. "And, if Stepp manages a little anti-Tribe rhetoric at some point, then you KNOW she's knows what she's doing.")? <br /><br />Or do they mean that Wisconsinites living in more rural areas of the state are anti-environment and hate-filled?<br /><br />Whatever these goofy comments mean, when it comes to polluting waterways, poisoning the air, clearcutting the northwoods, or subdividing farmlands, Wisconsinites of all political bents get pissed off. And when it comes to doing real damage to the environment and the laws that protect it, we can point most of the fingers at urban republican corporate types who never see the silted-over trout streams, or have to smell the factory farm wastes day and night, or who have grown so accustomed to polluted air it seems natural to them. <br /><br />So I caution against the use of geographical bigotry when speculating about what an individual may or may not do. After all, there are idiots and heros in all walks of life and in all the cities and towns of the nation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-41732887033059209932011-01-23T15:48:41.747-06:002011-01-23T15:48:41.747-06:00Whoa. Take a breath.
The adjectives I used are us...Whoa. Take a breath.<br /><br />The adjectives I used are useful to an urban audience, which makes up most of this site's readers, I believe, and are quite accurate language.<br /><br />To a Milwaukee audience, the Town of Wauakesha, and Mukwanago, are indeed more rural, relatively speaking, and Tomah is definitely out-state.<br /><br />"Boonie" is you word, not mine.<br /><br />And you did not spell Mukwonago correctly, fyi.It is not Mukwanago, so which of us is more familiar with it, eh?James Rowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-30262524803113580462011-01-23T14:05:30.655-06:002011-01-23T14:05:30.655-06:00But this is hysterical! You did NOT just say "...But this is hysterical! You did NOT just say "rural Mukwonago" and "town of Waukesha" as if that is the edges of the world. I noticed a while back too, that for you Tomah's newspaper isn't just another WI newspaper but it has to qualified as"out-state" right in your headline. I Googled that term and no one really uses it. I couldn't understand why you felt a need to insert a term meaning "Boonie" to the headline. Why the need to specify, it had not relation to the topic. <br />Anyways. <br />The towns you list are still in the Milwaukee-influenced area. They still are gonna be over-spill areas. They're not Barron, Chetek, or Tilden. Not by a stretch.<br />This is totally relevant to your predictions of certain doom for Stepp, because those folks (bein' "outstate" and all) might not react the same as the people YOU personally know in those "remote" areas of Waukesha township in their reactions. They might never perceive Stepp as a problem it depends on what Stepp does and how she frames it. <br />Her rhetoric in that blog you linked to is phrased so that it may offend YOUR pals (that's who she is making fun of there you know? but it probably won't offend the guys in Bloomer. They, like Stepp, would mock the nerdy hot house flower DEms and their Karner Blue butterflies. Those "species" she chose, yeah, I say she was fully cognizant of the cultural divide between outstate hunters, some of whom might make their incomes on construction-related jobs and high-income Democrats competing with each other to compost more than the other guy and sit around with Merlot chatting about "getting off the grid". It maybe depends on WHICH wetland is getting filled in- the one they hunt on? or the one at the edge of town near where the doctors are building their houses. They won't miss that one too much, they don't hunt there. <br />So depending on how crafty Walker's team is (and I'd say pretty damn crafty so far, with huge huge cojones too) it's quite possible that they will be able to maintain a balance and keep the support of their base very well. Fill in the wetlands that the hunters don't care about, giving them jobs and leave the shit they DO care about alone. It could probably be done, by a team who would have to understand the ENTIRE state. I dunno if that describes the Walker team or not. But it doesn't seem to describe the Dem team, that becomes more clear every day.<br />Laughing at people who care about Karner Blue butterflies - that's a rallying call to people who wanna poke fun at desk-jockey week-end environmentalists who camp up in the Boundary Waters and aren't "real men".<br />(And, if Stepp manages a little anti-Tribe rhetoric at some point, then you KNOW she's knows what she's doing.) <br /><i>town of Waukesha...wahahahaaa...omg rural Mukwanago...hurrrrrrrrrr</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-59555838332693282532011-01-23T12:56:30.683-06:002011-01-23T12:56:30.683-06:00The only environment that Cathy Stepp is out to de...The only environment that Cathy Stepp is out to destroy is the one which fueled the legendary arrogance of our current DNR. She deserves our support.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com