Scott Pruitt’s $50-per-night condo looks really bad - The Washington Post:
It just gets worse and worse. He was renting by the night at a ridiculous rate of $50 per night, and his benefactor is a lobbyist for the industries Pruitt is supposedly regulating. If Obama had appointed anybody who did this, that appointee would already have been fired or impeached.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo - ABC News
EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo - ABC News: "ABC News first reported Thursday that Pruitt had lived in the condo in 2017, during his first six months in Washington. The condo is in a prime location – less than a block from the U.S. Capitol complex – and other apartments in the building complex have rented for as much as $5,000-a-month, according to a source familiar with a neighboring lease.
The EPA allowed Bloomberg News to review copies of canceled checks that Pruitt paid to the condo owner. The news outlet reported that the checks show varying amounts paid on sporadic dates -- not a traditional monthly "rent payment" of the same amount each month, according to Bloomberg. In all, Pruitt paid $6,100 over six months to the limited liability corporation for the Capitol Hill condo co-owned by Vicki Hart, whose husband J. Steven Hart is chairman of a top D.C. lobbying firm and who is registered to lobby for several major environmental and energy concerns."
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Pruitt runs the Environmental Protection Agency, which he has hated for his entire professional career. He has been living in a luxury condo co-owned by the wife of an energy industry lobbyist. He has paid a total of $6100 in rent over six months. Market rate rent for six months would have been more like $30,000. I wonder what Trump voters who wanted to "drain the swamp" think of this. Probably fine with it.
The EPA allowed Bloomberg News to review copies of canceled checks that Pruitt paid to the condo owner. The news outlet reported that the checks show varying amounts paid on sporadic dates -- not a traditional monthly "rent payment" of the same amount each month, according to Bloomberg. In all, Pruitt paid $6,100 over six months to the limited liability corporation for the Capitol Hill condo co-owned by Vicki Hart, whose husband J. Steven Hart is chairman of a top D.C. lobbying firm and who is registered to lobby for several major environmental and energy concerns."
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Pruitt runs the Environmental Protection Agency, which he has hated for his entire professional career. He has been living in a luxury condo co-owned by the wife of an energy industry lobbyist. He has paid a total of $6100 in rent over six months. Market rate rent for six months would have been more like $30,000. I wonder what Trump voters who wanted to "drain the swamp" think of this. Probably fine with it.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Privatization is really a plan to dismantle Social Security
Privatization is really a plan to dismantle Social Security:
Of course it is. Many privatization plans are just ways of taking assets that were built, maintained, and paid for by the public, through tax dollars, and handing them over to private business corporations. Schemes like that are just legalized theft of public assets.
Of course it is. Many privatization plans are just ways of taking assets that were built, maintained, and paid for by the public, through tax dollars, and handing them over to private business corporations. Schemes like that are just legalized theft of public assets.
Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes - CNNPolitics
Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes - CNNPolitics:
"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said. A former US Senator (R-Pennsylvania) says that ordinary people should not use collective action to pressure the government to change the laws and solve collective problems. Let that sink in, because this is what his party is all about these days. The government is there to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, who are exquisitely organized for that purpose. Ordinary people should stay out of politics and focus on their private lives. Never mind that their private lives are profoundly affected by the collective action of the rich and powerful.
"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said. A former US Senator (R-Pennsylvania) says that ordinary people should not use collective action to pressure the government to change the laws and solve collective problems. Let that sink in, because this is what his party is all about these days. The government is there to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, who are exquisitely organized for that purpose. Ordinary people should stay out of politics and focus on their private lives. Never mind that their private lives are profoundly affected by the collective action of the rich and powerful.
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