After reading about our state DNR secretaries editorial on the DNR website, I decided to send her a letter. I doubt she'll even read it, but if she did, I hope it pissed her off. The letter follows the squiggly road.
Ms. Stepp,
It's apparent your appointment as Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources was done more because of your backing of Scott Walker's agenda than it was for your qualifications. But what's really disturbing, is the fact that while you were being paid by my tax dollars to perform your job, you chose instead to write what amounts to an editorial opinion regarding the outcome of the failure of Gogebic Taconite to get the mining bill they authored passed.
As a taxpayer, I find it reprehensible that you don't have enough dedication and respect for your job to do it to the best of your ability. For you to get paid taxpayer dollars, and use taxpayer funded resources to create your "editorial" and place it on a taxpayer funded website speaks volumes of what your intentions in the position are, and where your loyalties lie.
It's my belief that anyone who holds the position of Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources should have the state of Wisconsin's best interests at hand versus the interests of an out of state mining company. You, along with all the legislators who voted for the mining bill should be ashamed of yourselves, and should be ashamed to call yourselves Wisconsinites. By writing your "editorial" you have proven to the state of Wisconsin that you took this job to promote Walker's agenda, and not to continue the Wisconsin tradition of holding sacred, those natural resources that make Wisconsin the great state that it is.
What a shame that so many who call themselves conservatives, have no intentions of conserving any of our natural resources. They only want to strip them from the land and sell them to the lowest bidder. It's shameful to see the lack of respect you have for yourselves, and it's even more shameful to see how little respect you all have for this great state.