The new Republican state treasurer in Wisconsin has launched a bizarre mission to destroy the state’s Board of Commissioners of Public Land.
State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk is trying to cancel the board’s New York Times subscription, remove references to climate change from its website, and oust the board’s executive secretary, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Adamczyk has targeted the executive secretary, Tia Nelson, overconcerns about her influence over the board, according to the Journal Sentinel. Nelson is the daughter of the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson and has served on Wisconsin’s global warming task force.
“I don’t see a role in this board to do anything else (outside its mission), like become a Wisconsin version of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Adamczyk said at a board meeting on Tuesday. “I just think in some cases things might be straying.”
Adamczyk has also tried to initiate a performance review for Nelson and alter the board’s letterhead to remove her name, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel and Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette also sit on the board with Adamczyk, and both argued against removing Nelson’s name from the letterhead.
Obvious observation, but…what a ridiculous asshole.
You failed to mention his lack of a neck.
The rule of law seems well and truly suspended in Wisconsin now that the One True Party has fully seized power and begun to implement rule by decree.
I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that all the people responsible for Wisconsin’s reputation for midwestern niceness are Democrats and they’re all too fucking nice and polite to see what’s going on. Like the guy this morning who was calling attempts to bugger the constitution to accomplish the political goal of unseating the state’s chief justice “hardball politics.” No, dude, it’s not "hardball politics. This is how nihilistic authoritarian movement regimes operate once they’ve consolidated power. And all the folks who voted against Walker’s recall because, even though they didn’t like him, they thought the recall was just gosh darn rude are responsible.
And, for that matter, like Russ Feingold, who many here treat as a secular saint, who apparently still believes he can wish Citizens United away by campaigning as if it didn’t exist.
But, as long as I’m criticizing other states, I should also give a shoutout to all the goddamned morons here who split their ballot to vote for Obama and Proconsul McCrory in 2012.
GOP-gut seem to believe that if everyone quits talking about Climate Change that it will just go away. Now about that tumor on your forehead …
Small minds, mean spirits are the direct result of ignorance, poor parental upbringlng, religulous fundamentalism and mentally unbalanced temperaments.