I resent the fact that the Department of the Interior is headed by a petty, grasping, buffoon.
Next it will be announced that the work is expected to take 4-6 weeks and Zinke will be moving himself and his support staff to a floor at the Trump International Hotel so he may continue meeting with constituents from various mining, oil and gas companies without significant interruption.
“The cost is reasonable when taking into account there are two sets of double doors, the doors must be custom built, they must meet historic building requirements, includes both sets of door frames, demo of the current structure and installation,” the statement said.
OK, from what they’re describing, this actually sounds about right for even the higher cost. Real facilities maintenance costs a boat load of money that’s completely different from the Home Depot costs us schlubs pay. Now, should you be spending that money on new doors? So far I’m not hearing there was anything wrong with the old doors.
Doesn’t Zinke have a girlfriend on the side who needs the money more? I’ve heard it’s all the rage among retired generals.
More reading needed:
The current balcony doors leak “like a sieve” whenever it rains, forcing workers to mop the wooden floor in Zinke’s office, the agency said. The doors have been so damaged by exposure to weather that at one point, the bottom panels were replaced with cardboard and duct tape.
How come “thoughts and prayers” aren’t good enough for this?
Not a problem. They plan to staff NOAA with bad weather denialists.
You give Zinke too much credit . . . and this insults buffoons
And this expenditure of taxpayer dollars is justified because . . .
- It will will support and defend the Constitution?
- It will protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic?
- It will demonstrate Zinke’s true faith and allegiance to the same?
- It will make it possible for Zinke to well and faithfully discharge his duties?
- It will help to protect all the public lands belonging to the people of the United States?
- It will protect wildlife across our great nation?
- It will protect and improve the environment and help provide solutions to threats to our environment?
- None of the Above?
Yea, I thought so!
“Zinke said regulations regarding the 82-year-old, historic building near the National Mall significantly increase the cost of the renovations.”
BS, BS, BS! I renovated an historic 175-year-old house with monitoring by the historic commission, and I paid $500-$1500 for both interior and exterior doors (installed) 20 years ago. Add in inflation and city costs for DC, and that a friend just paid $10K for a designer frosted glass exterior door (installed), and you have $20K for Zinke’s two exterior (fiberglass) doors, let’s say 10x of my mean of $1K for 4 interior doors (installed) = $40K (installed) for $60K total (installed).
BS.
I hear that that’s the same reason Chiselin’ Trump is firing most of his White House staff.
All three flights he has taken on private planes as secretary were on aircraft driven by propellers, not jet engines, he said.
If you explainin’, you losin’. Probably turbo props anyhow.
Zinke is hinky.
Sounds par for the course for this admin.
Seems like you could’ve fit a Rick Perry joke in there, too.
Amazing how much you can see when you cancel the part of the order that specified large bronze panels with a 3-D representation of Mt. Rushmore, with Zinke’s head in place of Roosevelt’s.
He’s far from a retired General. Matter of fact he was basically drummed out of the Navy for abusing travel privileges from DC to the new house he was building in Whitefish Montana. And ordered to not have any association or connection with the Seals again but here he is today bully boying on Cantwell by using that very association.
The new balcony doors will be made of fiberglass specially made by a Maryland company and include glass transoms above the doors and fiberglass door frames.
Wood is actually a pretty good material and would match the original construction much better. My heart bleeds when I see inappropriate renovations.
Oh dear , someone*s losing out on their commisssion .