State Taxpayers to Buy Recycling Bins for Wrightstown’s Citizens

We’re in a budget deficit and they are including pork like this?

Hundreds of state employees may get laid off, local governments are bracing for deep funding cuts, and cell phone users may pay a new fee to help plug Wisconsin’s $6.6 billion budget hole.

But $46,000 worth of new recycling bins may soon be on their way to the environmentally conscious residents of the town of Wrightstown.

Late Tuesday, likely after most of the 2,000 people in the southern Brown County town had gone to bed, the Legislature’s budget committee agreed to provide the money for the new recycling bins.

Even the town’s treasurer and clerk didn’t know about the vote today.

“I have not a clue,” clerk Donna Martzahl said. “I can’t imagine that we’re getting that.”

The money will buy roughly 800 new 90-gallon recycling bins at about $60 each to replace old ones that can hold only 10 to 15 gallons, treasurer Nancy Leick said. With the new ones, town residents will be able to mix their paper, glass and other recyclable materials together instead of separating them.

Seriously?  They can’t phase them in?  They can’t just deal with the smaller ones until times are better?  Why does the entire state need to chip in for their recycling bins?

Answer:  politics.

Rep. Ted Zigmunt, a Francis Creek Democrat whose district includes Wrightstown, did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Spokesmen for the two Democratic co-chairs of the budget committee said they did not know who brought the issue to the panel for consideration.

BS.  The Democrats know exactly why and how pork like this got in front of the committee.  Zigmunt is the only Democrat representing Wrightstown and I’ll bet dollars to donuts that he requested this little piece of juicy pork through the Democrat controlled JFC. 

Another $46k to be tossed down the drain, folks… deficits or not.