Governor may lose WDNR rein
Senate votes to end power to name secretary
By STEVEN WALTERS and STACY FORSTER
swalters@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Oct. 30, 2007
Madison - The state Senate voted Tuesday to return to having the state Natural Resources Board - and not the governor - appoint the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, beginning in 2011.
The Assembly was also in session, and among the more than two dozen bills it passed was a measure to require doctors to consult with women seeking abortions to ensure they aren't being coerced into the procedure.
The DNR bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Robert Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie), called the current system, pushed through the Legislature in 1995 by then-Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, a "failed experiment."
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