Posted on 03/05/2015 6:51:34 PM PST by jazusamo
Gina McCarthy, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, overstayed her welcome in Alaska last year. When Alaskan native tribes honored the EPA worker with gifts, she returned the favor by telling the Wall Street Journal she threw one of the “f-ing things away” and that the moose meat she was given could “gag a maggot.”
During Wednesday’s Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) grilled McCarthy about her ‘disturbing’ comments that were featured in the largely positive Wall Street Journal profile.
“A lot of people saw that as a glowing article,” he said. “Most people in Alaska saw it as an incredible disrespect to the people of my state.”
Sullivan then offered McCarthy the opportunity to apologize for her insensitive comments. She did so, yet also insisted her words were ‘taken out of context.’
"I'm happy to apologize for those remarks,” she said. “I will tell you they were taken out of context, but it doesn't matter because they hurt individuals and tribes that I care about."
Sullivan nodded and agreed that her words had wounded the people of Alaska, but readily accepted her apology.
During the hearing, the senator also chided McCarthy and her agency for not being accountable to the people they are supposed to serve and ‘rushing’ out rules without pausing to consider their legality. Watch the entire exchange below:
VIDEO Sen. Sullivan (R-AK) Questions EPA Administrator McCarthy at EPW Hearing 3/4/15
Well, the Democrats really don’t like Native Americans.
Republicans don’t let themselves get kicked in the ass by every democrat shill and they have to resign. These libtard idiots can offend and quid pro quo and use private emails violating federal law and nothing happens to them.
These people are beyond repair. They are a cancer and their corruption spreads and every other commie libtard thinks they can act the same way.
My oh my, So tolerant of her towards native Alaskan peoples.
Discrimination is not confined to one set of race, or rather one set of race is not only guilty of rascim.
What good is an apology not given willingly. If Sullivan had to suggest it, why bother?
Gina McCarthy of the EPA has no HONOR.
She is a SPLIT NOSE.
Agreed, and her supposed apology was not an apology in my view.
Then why the hell don't you stop her unconstitutional "administrative law" grab Sullivan?
Does anyone really believe a republican would survive this, given how the democrats and demtard media would hammer, and hammer, and hammer, and hammer, on them until they said they’d resign?
You had me at “they are a cancer”. Yes they are.
This would have been a perfect opportunity to Bork her but instead the Pubbie grandstands for 10 minutes and moves on......they will never ever turn the tables on these libs........
Did Senator Lieawatha Fauxahantis have any questions?
Any apology followed by “but” means nothing.
There’s no way an EPA administrator in a Republican administration could survive this in my view. Of course a Republican head of the EPA would never have said this in the first place.
Sullivan should have nailed her to the wall for that supposed apology, especially when she came back to him with “no problem.”
My thought, exactly!
Another ugly Marxist.
Pray America is waking
This doesn't tell the story.
Democrats and other liberals love humanity. It's people they can't stand.
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