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GOP Wisconsin Treasurer Goes To War With State Board Over Climate Change


Source: Talkingpointsmemo.com




GOP Wisconsin Treasurer Goes To War With State Board Over Climate Change


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ByCaitlin MacNeal PublishedJanuary 21, 2015, 12:53 PM EST 7653 views

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."......




Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/matt-adamczyk-wisonsin-treasurer-climate-change


So many things are going down the tube in Wisconsin these last 4 years. This is bizarre



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From a response post on this tread:

Oh my--He wants Wisconsin to become another Palin Alaska. What a narrow-minded little peabrain.


Another article about this issue:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/new-wisconsin-treasurer-makes-waves-in-role-on-obscure-state-board-b99429552z1-289233071.html

........At Tuesday's meeting, the board took up a host of other issues raised by Adamczyk, including the board's subscription to The New York Times.

"First and foremost, this is completely unnecessary," Adamczyk wrote in a Dec. 22 email to Nelson. "We live in Wisconsin and we don't need a subscription to this publication."

Nelson responded that she and other staff read the Times along with the other newspapers they subscribe to — The Wall Street Journal, Lakeland Times, Wisconsin State Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

"It's been my view that having a diversity of news sources has been helpful," Nelson said at Tuesday's meeting.............





Journal Sentinel files
State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk (left) has clashed with Tia Nelson (right), the secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Land, a state board Adamczyk helps lead as part of his role as state treasurer.