Wednesday, April 6, 2011

WWSWD(what would Scott Walker Do)

     If you were an employer with a job opening in an environmental position, which of these three candidates would you hire;
      Potential hire #1- possesses a doctoral degree in engineering and spent eight years working to clean up petroleum contaminated sites.
     Potential hire #2- An engineer who has worked since 2003 in the positon with which there is an opening(wonder if they knew about that).
     Potential hire #3- A 27 year old college dropout with no environmental experience, hardly any managerial experience and two drunk driving convictions.
     Since it involves Scott Walker, you probably assumed logic and reason fled the coop a LONG time ago so it is highly unlikely hires 1 and 2 had a chance.  You guessed right.Walker decided to give this position(official title Dept. of Commerce- head of environmental and regulatory affairs) to Brian Deschane, hire #3.  As unreasonable as this seems, his salary was at $81,500(and those pesky teachers with their required licenses, Master degrees and $46,000 a year salary was going to break this state, Wisconsin).  What isn't a surprise, upon further inspection, is that Brian Deschane is the son of Jerry Deschane, a top contributor to Walker's election campaign for governor of Wisconsin.
     What a tangled web we weave....
      Well, you'll be glad to know this disaster of an appointment only lasted a day.  Governor Walker "demoted " Brian Deschane to his original position as bureau director at the state Dept. of Regulations and Licensing, with it's paltry $64,728 a year salary(still more than a public school teacher).  Walker only did this after details of this embarassment were printed in a Milwaukee newspaper.  It's time for this puppet  to cut his ventriloquist's strings if he wants to be taken seriously as the Governor of Wisconsin.
     Fortunately, it may be too late.  And Deschane isn't worth that kind of money.
    

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