WI State Treasurer Moves To Block "Engaging In Global Warming Or Climate Change Work"
Wisconsin Republicans are looking to place a Florida-style moratorium on the ability of a key public official to work on matters related to climate change on state time.
State treasurer Matt Adamczyk, a Republican, says his plan to prohibit Tia Nelson, the executive secretary of the states Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, from engaging in global warming or climate change work on the job is part of an attempt to trim government spending, which has included fighting for his own office to be eliminated.
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Nelsons supporters on the board, including Wisconsin secretary of state Doug La Follette, have characterised the vote as a politically motivated witchhunt which comes as the result of Nelsons participation in a global warming taskforce created by then-governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat, in 2008.
Adamczyk alleges that Nelsons co-authoring of a report on policy recommendations for the state to address climate change amounted to theft of the states time. Nelson declined to comment on the allegations. She said that in 10 years leading the agency and working with both Republican and Democratic majority boards, this marked the first time climate change has been a part of the conversation.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/07/wisconsin-republicans-climate-change