Dear Editor: Gov.-elect Scott Walker?s proposal to change the way state agency rules are approved has an appealing ring, as expressed in a recent opinion piece by Journal Sentinel writer Patrick McIlheran.
In essence Walker is calling for a procedure that abandons the current ?passive approval? by the Legislature to the individual approval by the governor of each new or modified agency rule. Such a move would place enormous power in the hands of the governor while stifling the ability of agencies to develop processes by which they operate and ultimately serve the Wisconsin public.