Tag: Cathy Stepp

At a recent budget briefing, Department of Natural Resources secretary Cathy Stepp said she wouldn’t rule out selling corporate naming rights for Wisconsin’s state parks to help balance her department’s budget. The secretary of the Department of Natural Resources wouldn’t rule out selling corporate naming rights for Wisconsin state parks…

If I were a Republican ideologue who publicly railed against government, I probably would not accept a job working for the government. But that’s just me. Clearly, others feel differently. Like Cathy Stepp, the Walker-appointed Wisconsin DNR Secretary who supported wolf-hunting with dogs and helped let Herr Environmental off the hook for…

If you’ve ever wondered exactly which corporate interests contributed to Gov. Scott Walker’s gubernatorial campaign in 2010, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a useful database that allows folks to “follow the money” and see exactly which corporate interests donated to Gov. Walker’s campaign. Here’s just a few highlights: $28,000 from…

Governor-elect Scott Walker named his cabinet appointees yesterday, and putting aside his “everything old is new again” approach in choosing three cabinet secretaries straight out of the Tommy Thompson era, Walker adopted a “foxes in the henhouse” approach by appointing home builder Cathy Stepp as head of the Department of…