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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:14 PM Jan 2019

Zinke Likens His Environmental Rollbacks To Teddy Roosevelt's Legacy

By MATTHEW BROWN
January 4, 2019 9:41 am

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke exits Washington amid a cloud of unresolved investigations and criticism of his actions favoring industry, he told The Associated Press that he has lived up to the conservation ideals of Teddy Roosevelt and insisted that the myriad allegations against him will be proven untrue.

The former Montana congressman also said he quit President Donald Trump’s cabinet on his own terms, despite indications he was pressured by the White House to resign effective Wednesday.

During almost two years overseeing an agency responsible for managing 500 million acres of public lands, Zinke’s broad rollbacks of restrictions on oil and gas drilling were cheered by industry. But they brought a scathing backlash from environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers who accused him of putting corporate profits ahead of preservation.

In his first interview since Trump announced his resignation last month, Zinke said the changes he made at Interior meshed with Roosevelt’s beliefs and were needed to unfetter energy companies held back by unreasonable drilling curbs imposed under former President Barack Obama.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/zinke-first-interview-since-resignation


No asshole, you are not Teddy Roosevelt in the delusion you live, your not even close, your a liar and a cheat......................and your going to be just like the Teapot Dome issue.....................and you will be convicted of your crimes in my opinion...............................so FU........................

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Zinke Likens His Environmental Rollbacks To Teddy Roosevelt's Legacy (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2019 OP
Go away zinke.... spanone Jan 2019 #1
If He Talks Like a Malignant Narcissist... dlk Jan 2019 #2
This asshole has it completely backwards Ohiogal Jan 2019 #3
+1 area51 Jan 2019 #4

spanone

(135,636 posts)
1. Go away zinke....
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jan 2019

fuck you. your grandchildren, should you have any, will live in shame for what you've done.

Ohiogal

(31,669 posts)
3. This asshole has it completely backwards
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:28 PM
Jan 2019

TR was an environmentalist. He believed in preserving public lands and creating national forests in order to preserve our country's natural resources. Zinke would allow oil and gas drilling in our beautiful public lands until they look like Swiss cheese, just so some oil company can rake in profits.

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