Posted: 02.24.2010

It looks like the governor will go on
appointing Wisconsin's chief outdoors leader.

The state Assembly has failed to override Gov. Jim Doyle's veto
of a bill that would have stripped governors of their power to
appoint the Department of Natural Resources secretary. The bill
would have handed appointment power instead to the Natural
Resoruces Board, a citizen panel that controls DNR policy.

The bill's supporters claimed board appointment would keep
politics out of conservation decisions. Doyle countered the DNR is
stronger and more accountable with the governor clearly behind its
leader.

A successful override takes a two-thirds vote of members
present. With 96 representatives voting Tuesday, an override would
have taken 64 votes. Democrats who introduced the bill could muster
only 58 votes.
 

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