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Article: POLITICS SULLIED JOB, EX-DNR CHIEF SAYS GEORGE MEYER, WHO IS LEAVING THE AGENCY FRIDAY, RECALLED POLITICAL PRESSURE FROM SEN. CHUCK CHVALA.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2002
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Byline: Ron Seely Environment reporter
In his 32 years with the state Department of Natural Resources, George Meyer -- who is leaving the agency Friday -- said one of the strangest and most unsettling moments of his career came in the winter of 1999 in a Madison hamburger restaurant.
Over lunch at the now-defunct Dotty Dumpling's Dowry, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala, D-Madison, told Meyer, then DNR secretary, that he would hold up Meyer's Senate reconfirmation unless the secretary found a way to deny permits for the company trying to build a controversial zinc and copper mine near Crandon.
Meyer, who started at the DNR in April 1970 as a ...