Alan Lassee, The State Senate's biggest ass cantaloupe disses the DNR.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/opinion_20915847.shtmlAlan

Lasee says DNR the Gestapo

DE PERE — I’m responding to a letter criticizing my statement regarding the DNR “Gestapo.” I learned the writer is actually a Madison resident. It’s unfortunate he lives in Madison and still feels it’s his prerogative to control other people’s property in my district.

I stand by my comments on DNR Gestapo tactics. The following are examples of the DNR strong-arm tactics.

• Once a DNR state employee decided a farm field with growing alfalfa was a “wetland” in the village of Denmark. The action was found inaccurate.

• A manmade ditch in Calumet County was designated a “navigable stream” even though its grass was mowed. This was also proven to be untrue.

• The DNR cited a constituent for placing crushed limestone on a path, saying it was “hazardous material.” Never mind the entire Niagara Escarpment is limestone. The owner paid an $8,000 fine.

• The DNR drove Ashley Furniture to expand its business in another state, cutting 300 jobs, because they determined the field where Ashley parked its semi-trucks was a wetland.

More recently, the DNR is preventing Menards from expanding because a cornfield is a stopover spot for migratory birds — thus, possibly losing hundreds of more jobs thanks to the DNR.

Sen. Alan Lasee

[ClassWarrior]

1. Let's call this sick fuck and demand a retraction!!

NGU.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Better yet...

Any DU er in his district willing to run against him?

[ClassWarrior]

3. Yesssss... I'll be glad to help organize the campaign... Anybody?

NGU.

[ewagner]

4. Old Wives tales

The issues that this ass-hat cites as proof of "gestapo tactics" are all too familiar. I've heard them for years although the locations seem to be different. They are cited as DNR horror stories whenever conservatives get together....make him provide proof and documentation of the specific instances he cites....I think they're "old wives tales" that have been floating around for years.

Also:

Even if those incidents did happen, did they happen the way this ass-hat describes them? Probably not.

Also:

He's been making a lot of noise recently.....is he campaigning for a bigger job/office?

[RevCheesehead]

5. maybe he wants out?

Like I told ya yesterday, my repuke church member is royally POed at him because of TABOR. I think he might be vulnerable.

[sybylla]

6. The Ashley furniture one myth at least based on truth, whether or not

it is as Captain Asshat describes it.

I have friends who have family in the Ashley Furniture vicinity and they related essentially the same story when we drove through the town on the way to a convention two years ago. At the time, the permit to expand was still under appeal and the company was threatening to move the whole factory out of the state. Apparently they only expanded out of state.

Perhaps it's all untrue but if it is, it's apparently what the locals believe.

As for the others, I've heard a few of them but I'm with you. I would still like to see proof of the claims.