Just put a plaque on it that says “monument stupidly”
$43,000 for a five-minute call?
I want a transcript. If even one sentence is personal in nature, Pruitt pays.
Former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s infamous phone booth
I love that. It’s got a ring to it.
He used the $43,000 creation to place exactly one call to the White House during his entire tenure.
That’s a lot of dimes. Reminds me of …
No matter.
Scott Pruitt can continue a lucrative career on his own.
Introducing…his “portable” cone of silence.
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The Tardis from hell…
Scott Pruitt belongs in a prison “booth”
turns out to be even more unnecessary a purchase than it seemed, as he used the $43,000 creation to place exactly one call to the White House during his entire tenure.
Dear TPM and Mainstream Media:
I hate to break it to you, but the purpose of the booth was not for his calls to the White House. It was for his calls to the Oil & Gas Industry, for his calls with Karl Icahn, for his calls setting up outrageous travel and lodging expenses for himself and his entourage, and for his calls seeking lucrative employment and investment opportunities for himself and his wife.
You’re quite welcome.
Don’t need a double-Dutch secret phone booth when you’ve got your little seat at the White House Commissary every day. Ah, but then they kicked him out. What do you bet his one call was a crank-call to the Commissary when they did that?
Oh damn–you had the exact same thought I did and killed it!!?! Thank you, RJ! 
I would add greed and corruption as well.
And to think Maxwell Smart just used his shoe.
At least turn it into a fish tank or something?
By the way have we’ve seen a real picture of the dang thing?
C’mon, the phone booth was never about communicating with the white house. It was so Pruitt could collude in secret with his heavy industry cronies in the destruction of our environment for profit. Even as dumb as he was, he knew those sorts of conversations were better not overheard.
SCIF specs are pretty exacting, so I am having a hard time understanding how the space Pruitt purchased met the federal standards. And an authorized SCIF reviewer would have had to sign off on the space for commissioning.
And it’s true- they’re not cheap.
Exactamente! And Wheeler is clearly in no rush to dismantle such a nifty little asset.
“(Too)…expensive to tear apart” my ass.
From the article:
[quote]He has also told Congress that he did not realize the size of the price
tag, and that he would not have given the project his thumbs up if he
had known.[/quote]
So… Whose job was it to know how much an EPA project would cost? The EPA administrator?
Then perhaps Mr. Wheeler should not take down the Clean Power Plan, since it would be expensive to tear it apart.
And Wheeler will be using it for the same purpose.
Plus…should he become possessed of David Vitter’s urges…he can call the D.C. Madame from the booth for his weekly diaper “briefing”…