Thursday, August 12, 2004

No SUV's for wardens

The Wisconsin State Journal reports that "The state Department of Corrections has told the approximately 20 wardens they will no longer be entitled to fully loaded SUVs as their state-assigned vehicle"

Wow. "A review of recent Wisconsin winters makes the justification for SUV/4-wheel vehicles untenable." I'll bet it does. I'd love to have seen the original justification. OK, I'll grant that the warden's cars are "24-hour command posts." Still, we're pretty good at getting the roads clean, and I almost never see conditions that block a Taurus (the replacement) that wouldn't also block an SUV.

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