Big spender Green looking to spend more money on state agencies already

Hold onto to your wallets folks, Rep. Mark Green is outlining his vision for a state budget and it includes duplications of jobs and inefficiencies in state government. Green proposes splitting the DNR, something that Republicans have proposed in the past.

Does anyone remember why former Governor Scott McCallum veto a legislative attempt to split the DNR? For starters, his office received thousands of messages from people about the issue and they were 30 to 1 against splitting. Also, as noted by an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the state Natural Resources Board - a seven-member citizen board that oversees the DNR, strongly opposed the split and asked McCallum to veto the provision.

How is it fiscally conservative to propose having two agencies working on similar parts of state policy instead of the current system of having them all under one tent?

He proposes having one agency in charge of conservation law enforcement and one in charge of environmental enforcement? What is the difference between those two? Why do we need two sets of staff working on enforcement?

And doesn't his proposal set up a situation where the two agencies are working on the same thing but aren't communicating well enough to realize it? Or they don't care because they are competing for state resources? Can't you just see the reaction from a landowner that gets fined from both Green's proposed Department of Conservation, Forestry and Outdoor Recreation and his proposed Department of Environmental Quality?