Scott Walker replaces scientist on water council with industry donor

[riversedge]

Spud Lovr ?@SpudLovr Jan 22

Scott Walker replaces scientist on water council with industry donor http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2014/12/walker-replaces-scientist-on-water.html?spref=tw … #wiunion #wipolitics
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I MISSED THIS article last month. But fits in with the new Republican US Senate committee's no-science mentality.


http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2014/12/walker-replaces-scientist-on-water.html?spref=tw



Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Walker replaces scientist on water council with industry donor

[Updated, Tuesday, 12:04 a.m., from 6:32 p.m. Monday] Wisconsin has a statutorily-created groundwater coordination council; Scott Walker has just replaced the council Governor's representative - - UW-Stevens Point professor and water expert George Kraft - - with Stephen Diercks, a potato grower, according to this industry report.

It's another example of Walker's antipathy towards science and anything remotely connected to the Jim Doyle administration (think opposition to voter ID or concealed carry, support for collective bargaining, expanded Amtrak, the Nelson-Knowles Stewardship Fund, state recycling aid, etc.), as Walker only represents and supports the 53% of the electorate which votes for him.

A frequent contributor principally to GOP candidates, Diercks has donated $4,450 to Walker's campaigns since 2009, including $1,500 on June 30, records show..............

[potone]

1. Can this guy get any worse?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Give him time and I'm sure he can. n/t

[Scuba]

4. Yes, and he will. My state is fucked.

[JeffHead]

3. Potatoes need water don't they? That makes him a expert right?

That's Republican logic for ya.

[riversedge]

5. yup--Goes along with the logic of alternative teaching certificates based

on life experiences that Walker just proposed yesterday.

[ewagner]

7. Water? Yes....and ....

atrizine!!!!

[pansypoo53219]

6. so, walker is a CHEAP whore.

so, walker is a CHEAP whore.