Rep Scott Krug Exposed for Running Political Interference Against Clean Water Advocates; Ridicules Families for Opposing Factory Farm

In July 2012 at a Saratoga, Wisconsin Town Board meeting drawing 100s of people, State Rep. Scott Krug (R-Nekoosa), a member of the corporatist American Legislative Exchange Committee, was in attendance in the charged environment.

 

The Wysocki Family of Companies had sprung its plans for a massive factory farm sited in central Wisconsin that would work as a hazardous-waste vectoring operation imperiling area groundwater, drinking waters, and surface waters with millions of gallons of liquidized and aerizied cow manure, among disastrous economic effects, (Mal Contends), (John Ikerd). 

 

Eight years of grueling work by 1,000s of clean water advocates prevented the Golden Sands, LLC factory farm from beginning operations, as Krug ran political interference for Wysocki.

Now, Krug is claiming on Facebook that there is no concern for the factory farm starting up, and there never will be in a post ridiculing clean water advocates, despite the town of Saratoga standing ready to file more litigation. 

The tone and substance of Krug's latest dig at clean water advocates puts the lie to his claimed concern for clean water.

Writes Krug in part:

A story that is turning as old as time itself. Much like a campfire story though it’a just a tall tale. There is no CAFO and there will be no CAFO in Saratoga. They already know that too, but can’t resist trying to scare their neighbors at election time.

There has been no public announcement by Wysocki that it intends to abandon its plans for the Golden Sands, LLC factory farm.

Central Wisconsin families spend years of their lives for their families and communities, and Krug ridicules them. 

 

Wysocki and other industrial ag interests are heavy Republican Party donors, so Krug offered his fealty at the 2012 event telling a vocal factory farm opponent, Nancy Koch, to "quit your bitching," exemplifying Krug's eight-year hostility to factory farm opponents.

 

Recalled Ms. Koch in 2014, "Early on in this fight when I contacted Scott Krug at his Republican e-mail address I asked for his help with this CAFO issue. In the e-mail, I reminded him who I was ---- that I was the one he told to 'Quit your bitching' at the Wysocki presentation at the Performing Arts Center in Wi Rapids. I never got a response to the e-mail or an apology."

Krug was forced into a political position in which his campaigns were funded by factory farm-advocating Scott Walker and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos who directed money into Krug's coffers in his gerrymandered district, while Krug falsely pretended he too was a factory farm opponent and clean water advocate.

 

Meanwhile, one of the counties the factory farm would harm is suing Wysocki for another of its factory farm's pollution.

 

Time and perseverance have proven clean water citizens rights: Their water is worth for fighting for and Scott Krug is a fraud who ran political interference for Wysocki. Krug has always opposed the efforts of central-Wisconsin families protecting their homes and communities.