{"id":136808,"date":"2018-06-21T19:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136808"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:13:06","slug":"protecting-the-administrator-not-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/protecting-the-administrator-not-the-environment.html","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the Administrator, not the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in Scott Pruitt Land, we&#39;re building a private army, complete with &quot;tactical polos,&quot; holsters, and bullet-proof vehicles and breaching kits. The security spending is approaching $5M.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the Environmental Protection Agency was set up to, you know, protect the environment, not the business-friendly administrator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/06\/20\/scott-pruitt-epa-security-total-expenses-foia\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Pwb5VT3ECsFBz2rmAirN9IZR_XOreap2uF_gGpnKyp0L5SrMh7h-0Qrh5lN-sjmVzjIo30gn7yOurzT2k1bxAVZq0tsjVYlLXLFeh9VmlXHiaaJuoIdAxrIW_uyvNDsdwxx-L2RdfR_vKNhgVJPe2PS4GT-erAgY4QklJtKKBMraQTN54jgv7gWxLQv8LIVHNcGoga8zIUZWnAaUiw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/06\/20\/scott-pruitt-epa-security-total-expenses-foia\/'>Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 Million on Security, New Disclosures Show &mdash; Including $1,500 on &ldquo;Tactical Pants&rdquo;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA Freedom of Information Act document shows the EPA administrator&#8217;s expenses jumped $1.1 million from the last disclosure a month ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bfB82iWeAXZ'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in Scott Pruitt Land, we&#39;re building a private army, complete with &quot;tactical polos,&quot; holsters, and bullet-proof vehicles and breaching kits. The security spending is approaching $5M. I thought the Environmental Protection Agency was set up to, you know, protect the environment, not the business-friendly administrator. Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/protecting-the-administrator-not-the-environment.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Protecting the Administrator, not the Environment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63,17,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","category-homeland-security","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132177,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/trump-names-scott-pruitt-for-epa.html","url_meta":{"origin":136808,"position":0},"title":"Trump names Scott Pruitt for EPA","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-16 12:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pruitt is currently Attorney General of Oklahoma. 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