Climate Change Is Going to Make Scott Pruitt Need So Much Moisturizer
The EPA administrator’s apparent taste for fancy lotion will become more expensive if his agency continues to undermine efforts to address the planet's warming.
JAMES HAMBLIN
JUN 9, 2018
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency faced renewed scrutiny this week—with the latest allegations of unethical behavior veering, at times, into the utterly absurd.
For example, Scott Pruitt reportedly attempted to use his position to secure a Chick-Fil-A franchise for his wife; dispatched an aide look into purchasing a mattress from Trump International Hotel; and had security agents drive him multiple places in search of a moisturizing lotion available at Ritz-Carlton Hotels.
It is strictly prohibited for public servants to ask subordinates to do personal errands, so this Mad Lib menagerie of ethical breaches is notably high-risk, low-reward. Together these stories paint a picture of a man who is not simply misusing his office—misappropriating taxpayer funded resources for personal convenience and profit—but appears to not even appreciate that this is wrong. If you’re going to abuse your power in such a way that could get you fired, at least go big.
Pruitt’s apparent habits are more like conspicuously unbuckling his seatbelt only when he’s about to pass a police car. Which is why the lotion story is particularly compelling. Did he think this was big? Is moisturizer so important as to risk one’s career to procure the perfect bottle?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/scott-pruitt-is-going-to-need-so-much-moisturizer/562409/
I really do hope that when we take back the Congress, that this asshole spends more time sitting in a committee hearing answering charges of fraud, and him going to jail, and then the next up Mnuchin, Zinke
This really is like sticking people in the eye with a stick because they are utterly complete assholes......................its like the Teapot Dome bull shit.................but now 21 century newest version
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough