Scott Pruitt can he get any more weird?

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MixMasterTang

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Buying a hotel mattress isn't all that weird. But specifically one from Trump hotel in DC...well considering that this is in effect payment to Trump, well know you, pay to play.

I wonder if used mattress purchases are put in the books in some way that they are written off as an anonymous "refuse disposal expense"? I wonder if, say, this "mattress" was purchased for a couple $100k's or so, if it's just yet another neato way to funnel industry cash directly to Trump in order to loosen regulations/dump more lead into Flint's water.

Hmmm.
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I have purchased a (brand new) mattress because it was the same one used at the Westin where I had quite a few stays in and loved the mattress, so I could see "Hey find me one like that", but uhhh, a used one? No f'ing way.
 
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And now we have the Chick-fil-A thing. Weirder and weirder...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...98e4e4-5eac-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html
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It not just about being weird or more weird.
It looks as though he is misusing that aide's time for his personal gain (getting his wife a job).
Doesn't anyone in congress have the balls to go after this guy?

Now you can be sure that if the EPA head was a 'filthy liberal" that these repubs would have no problem in
pressuring the removal of the him/her, from this cabinet position.
 
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esquared said:
It not just about being weird or more weird.
It looks as though he is misusing that aide's time for his personal gain (getting his wife a job).
Doesn't anyone in congress have the balls to go after this guy?

Now you can be sure that if the EPA head was a 'filthy liberal" that these repubs would have no problem in
pressuring the removal of the him/her, from this cabinet position.
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We would at least have daily hearings.
 
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At this point I want to see how far down this hole we can go. I mean the CFA thing is hilarious.

#2 at EPA is a super shifty ex-coal lobbyist who would be a lot better at the job of dismantling the agency than Pruitt so I'm in no hurry to see him take the reins.
 
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Me neither; however, I can't imagine Pruitt lasting more than another week.
 
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In the Private Sector, Personal Assistants take care of most everything for top execs. I dated a woman many years ago who was the executive secretary to a construction manager who built several of Denver's high rise office buildings. She took care of everything from keeping track of his social & business calendar to sending his wife flowers for their anniversary to you name it. It comes with the territory & helps 'em stay on track.

I don't really have any heartburn about top govt execs getting the same sort of treatment even if Pruitt's requests are weird. I have a problem with him being there in the first place, with his sell-out policy decisions.
 
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I was in the middle of checking out her LinkedIn page when it suddenly developed problems and is now not viewable. Huh.
 
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Jhhnn said:
In the Private Sector, Personal Assistants take care of most everything for top execs. I dated a woman many years ago who was the executive secretary to a construction manager who built several of Denver's high rise office buildings. She took care of everything from keeping track of his social & business calendar to sending his wife flowers for their anniversary to you name it. It comes with the territory & helps 'em stay on track.

I don't really have any heartburn about top govt execs getting the same sort of treatment even if Pruitt's requests are weird. I have a problem with him being there in the first place, with his sell-out policy decisions.
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and it being illegal to do that in the public sector.
I’m not saying there needs to be jail time. I am saying he should know about this already and if he didn’t he definitely knows not to continue.
 
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Now I want a used Trump D.C. hotel mattress. I wonder how much they cost?
 
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and it being illegal to do that in the public sector.
I’m not saying there needs to be jail time. I am saying he should know about this already and if he didn’t he definitely knows not to continue.
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He’s been a public official for two decades now. He knows this.
 
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Apparently he got so fond of lunching at the WH they had to ask him to leave lol

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusiveU.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.

But apparently he liked it too much, and the White House asked him to please eat elsewhere sometimes.

In response to Pruitt's recurring use of the restaurant next to the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing, a member of the White House’s Cabinet affairs team told agency chiefs of staff in a meeting last year that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, according to three people with knowledge of the issue.
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A billing statement from July 2017 offered a glimpse into Pruitt’s use of the mess, showing the EPA chief or people linked to him dined at the mess at least nine times that month, racking up a bill of $400, a relative bargain in downtown Washington. Pruitt and his guests dined on dishes like “cowboy” skirt steak, popcorn chicken and waffles, spinach strawberry salad and beer-braised brisket tacos.

While the food is considered to be top-notch, the prices are a real bargain. Skirt steak runs just $10.25, while coriander beef kabobs were just $11.95 each. And a cheeseburger runs just $6.35, according to his bill. The burger at another of Pruitt's haunts, French bistro Le Diplomate, runs $17.

Records obtained through a Sierra Club Freedom of Information Act request also show Pruitt often sought to bring friends from Oklahoma to the White House mess.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/06/pruitt-white-house-lunch-603350
 
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Looks like another aide of pruitt's resigned.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...350e4b09578259e974a?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313

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Millan Hupp, the EPA’s director of scheduling and advance, resigned after becoming the subject of a second major controversy, this time involving a used Trump hotel mattress, according to The Atlantic. Her last day is Friday.

Minutes after The Atlantic’s report went live, New York Times reporter Eric Lipton tweeted that Sarah Greenwalt, a senior EPA adviser, also stepped down.


Both women worked for Pruitt when he served as Oklahoma’s attorney general and were part of a close-knit group of appointees known among EPA staffers as the “Oklahoma posse.” They were also the two aides awarded five-figure raises through a legal loophole after the White House rejected a request to bump their salaries. Pruitt first denied knowledge of the raises after they became public in April but later reversed course, admitting during a congressional hearing that he authorized them.
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This guy needs to go.

This from pruitt's spokesman when asked for comment on the resignations.

"A top EPA official told The Atlantic that Hupp was “tired of being thrown under the bus by Pruitt.”

The EPA did not respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment. But EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told an Atlantic reporter by phone, “You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash,” according to the magazine.
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Classy. :rolleyes:
 
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Most corrupt single individual in the history of government in the most corrupt administration in history.
 
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esquared said:
Both women worked for Pruitt when he served as Oklahoma’s attorney general and were part of a close-knit group of appointees known among EPA staffers as the “Oklahoma posse.”
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i was wondering why this stuff didn't come out when he was in oklahoma. it was because he took everyone that might talk with him.
 
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And there's more.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/toyota-of...xus-model-141739858--abc-news-topstories.html

""Scott Pruitt is apparently incapable of saying no to corporate lobbyists in any context, whether it is on policies that sell out our health and our future, or on personal perks and experiences he simply must indulge," John Coequyt, senior director of federal policy for the Sierra Club, told ABC News in a statement.

"Pruitt has become both a caricature and the example par excellence of incompetence, corruption, and petty grifting, and it's past time for him to resign," Coequyt said."
 
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pmv said:
Just heard about that one - I struggle to get over the low-rent, tawdry nature of it. At least European political corruption scandals are on a grand scale.
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It would be fascinating if it weren't so disturbing. It's this oddly naked kind of greed where he's determined to abuse his power at every turn and isn't shy about it. He only tries to hide just enough to avoid being directly caught, and even then, he's doing a mediocre job of it. The best way of describing it is as a kind of neurosis -- he just can't help but enrich himself as much as possible while in political office, even though he knows it's wrong and that everyone knows what he's doing. Almost a kind of cry for help... "I'm taking bribes! Arrest me, I'm begging you!"
 
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Commodus said:
It would be fascinating if it weren't so disturbing. It's this oddly naked kind of greed where he's determined to abuse his power at every turn and isn't shy about it. He only tries to hide just enough to avoid being directly caught, and even then, he's doing a mediocre job of it. The best way of describing it is as a kind of neurosis -- he just can't help but enrich himself as much as possible while in political office, even though he knows it's wrong and that everyone knows what he's doing. Almost a kind of cry for help... "I'm taking bribes! Arrest me, I'm begging you!"
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As someone who would confess to having some issues with obsessive-compulsive behaviour myself, I think you might actually be on to something there.
 
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