Madison.com Excerpt:
Campaign contributions may also have played a role. Records compiled by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign show Walker received $750,833 from the construction industry and $427,629 from Realtors through Oct. 18, 2010. "The two special interests who like the anti-windmill bill gave him nearly $1.2 million during his run for governor," notes WDC research director Mike Buelow.
But I have to give Walker a bit of credit here because he played it as good as he could for his contributors. Walker offered his favored construction sprawl builders the 1,800 ft. setback (about 1/3 mile) under the pretense of protecting personal and property rights for returning authority to local jurisdictions to over-ride the state setback rule. What I don't get is why Walker wants to snuff out 11 wind projects already on the books when they could have been grandfathered in to lower industry resistance against his proposal.
Personally, I hate it when the personal and property rights I support coincides with the position of pro-sprawl builders. It's a lose-lose situation either way for the quality of life. This is one of those rare instances where the enemy of my enemies is still not my friend.
2 comments:
Walker snuffing out the 11 wind projects already on the books is his favor towards the fossil fuel industry. By shutting it all down now, his fossil energy contributors get a reprieve from competition for the next decade or two.
Promoting fossil fuels and sprawl. That sounds about right for Walker. Again, I find it a shame that he is able to triangulate this issue with protecting property rights when I believe he could care less personal or private property rights while Wisconsin is "open for business."
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