Showing posts with label Scott Walker Stewardship Program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott Walker Stewardship Program. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Walker leading, ignores 88% of Wisconsin residents who oppose freezing DNR Stewardship Program till 2028!!!

How out of step is our "unintimidated" leader Scott Walker with the rest of us Wisconsinites?

For a guy who never believed in the state in the first place, campaigning on the slogan “Believe in Wisconsin Again,” his scorched earth agenda looks more like he’s got a score to settle than a guy trying to help.

After just finding out 58% of Wisconsinites want Walker to expand Medicaid and another 53% want him to ready a State Health Care Marketplace in case the Supreme Court strikes down the federal exchanges tax credit, we’re now learning farmers and hunters are fuming over cuts that effect them!!!


WKOW: A new poll commissioned by the Wisconsin chapter of the Nature Conservancy shows nearly 90 percent of those surveyed want the state to continue purchasing land for conservation through the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program managed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

The poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, which does polling for a number of Republican candidates, found that even 76 percent of GOP voters want the land purchases to continue … (instead of) freezing all new land purchases until 2028 … 83 percent of those polled said they would tell their legislators to vote to continue funding stewardship purchases going forward.
Yea, like telling their safe seat Republicans lawmakers will have any effect at all.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Slick Scott Walker reversal on Stewardship Program keeps everybody on edge, guessing…

I knew there was something fishy about Scott Walker’s scorched earth campaign to downsize the government. It wasn't just a desperate presidential campaign ploy to show how much he hates government, it was also a complete flip flop. Walker's latest outrage:
The Department of Natural Resources faces fundamental changes under Gov. Scott Walker's two-year budget, with one proposal to freeze state land purchases Walker's budget would effectively halt deals to preserve pristine areas of the state under the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program for the next 13 years.
Who's this Scott Walker? But back on May 28, 2013, the Journal Sentinel reported:
Gov. Scott Walker said he disagreed with heavy cuts in a land conservation program ... and said he hoped all or most of the funding would be restored. The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted to sharply pare the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program … (it) also called on the DNR to put at least 10,000 acres of state land up for sale by June 30, 2017.

Walker said he believed the frustration is they think they don’t have adequate public access to land the state buys. A report by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau in January found nine out of every 10 acres of land in the stewardship program is open to hunting.