Discussion: Docs Show EPA Chief Of Staff Authorized Huge Raises On Pruitt's Behalf

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Docs Show EPA Chief Of Staff Authorized Huge Raises On Pruitt's Behalf Docs Show EPA Chief Of Staff Authorized Huge Raises On Pruitt's Behalf Back to article
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Psst, Donald ! you can deflect some attention by firing Pruitt now !

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Yup. That swamp is draining nicely.

Here is an up to the minute photo of that work in process:

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I assume Pruitt has an alert set up to monitor Trump’s tweets. If not, this would be a good time to set one up.

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Did Pruitt eat a lot of lead paint chips when he was a child? Because something isn’t right with his head.

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Gee, these crooks are acting like criminals.

Just a coincidence.

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Despite reported emails showing Pruitt’s approval of Greenwalt’s raises, his chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, took the fall for approving them.

That Pruitt is one slippery critter
 but he has the worst interests of dirty energy at heart.

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"
 increases in salary were made due to either new and additional responsibilities or promotions.”

How much additional responsibility is it just to say, “Stop cleaning that up” or “Ignore that superfund site?”

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World class one of these

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I’d quibble with the following wording from the article regarding, essentially, whether Pruitt approved of the raises:

Documents released Monday by the inspector general’s office show something in between 


The documents don’t at all “show something in between” Pruitt approving of the raises or not approving of them. They do confirm that the chief of staff taking the fall was involved in formal approvel process, and they don’t provide new evidence that Pruitt knew about the raises. The emails reported by the Atlanta Monthly and plenty of circumstantial evidence aren’t dispositive either. But that prior evidence still makes it very, very difficult for any fair-minded person to conclude that Pruitt didn’t know. That still beggars belief, and the fact that Pruitt’s CoS was involved in the formalities only bolsters that view.

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The green(back)ing of the EPA.

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Here’s the working model

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Thank you Mr. Surgey.

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Bamboozlement. Don’t know if it’s a word but it’s what’s going on here. This issue’s been flooded with “facts” to defend Pruitt but WTF? If Pruitt’s heading an agency that’s hiking salaries ( at tax payers expense ) by near 50 grand a year how does not knowing about put him in the clear? He’s running the joint.

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I thought the first words Republicans learned were 
 “fiscal responsibility” and “we hate scroungers!”

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He was too busy picking out seat covers to notice.

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THese jerkwads are just CREATURES
(couldn’t think of a better word that would pass censorship). They will issue ‘statements’ and run to the microphones with their fking fake outrage that ANYONE (insert DEMS, LIBERALS, MEDIA) to accuse them of ‘something’ and then we find out they threw a staffer under the bus on their damn orders. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

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PRUITT: And I learned about it yesterday. I did not know about the pay raise. I did not approve the process.

li·ar
ˈlī(ə)r/Submit
noun
a person who tells lies.
synonyms: deceiver, fibber, perjurer, false witness, fabricator, equivocator;

And still has a job. sheesh

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So, he lied again and will face no consequences
this is where we are on the morality meter these days
fucking sewer dwellers.

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Don’t whisper it, shout it out loud: Pruitt needs to be fired and jailed!

Unfortunately, Pruitt is emblematic of the most corrupt and criminal administration our country has had, at least in modern history. They all need to be fired, including Trump.

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