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TRUMP FAMILY TRANSITION THREAD - Countdown week 7 (December 2-8 2016)
FRiends | December 2,2016 | DollyCali

Posted on 12/02/2016 1:14:44 AM PST by DollyCali

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To: NIKK

Don’t forget your golfing bear and our neighborhood cougar

Almost hit mama deer and her twin yearlings as they crossed the road the other evening. Stopped and waited for them to jump the fence and head to he pond.


1,121 posted on 12/07/2016 1:22:58 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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On Thursday, sources confirmed to multiple media outlets that Donald Trump has chosen Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Earlier in the day, Trump's Homeland Security pick — retired general John Kelly. The choice of Pruitt is bad news for environmentalists as he has led the charge nationally against President Obama's climate change policies.

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Whew, I think we dodged a bullet here. Ivanka has so much influence on her daddy this can't be true Peabody!!!/s


1,122 posted on 12/07/2016 2:09:16 PM PST by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: NIKK

Ivanka is the good cop to her dads bad cop. She sets Em up.


1,123 posted on 12/07/2016 3:01:25 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Do you have more information on Pruitt ?


1,124 posted on 12/07/2016 3:09:08 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: NIKK

1,125 posted on 12/07/2016 3:10:30 PM PST by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Seattle Conservative

I loved “The Apprentice”. I hope they do re-run them.


1,126 posted on 12/07/2016 3:16:33 PM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Found this. Best explanation of his position available

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-trump.html?_r=0&referer=http://www.bing.com/search?q=scott+Pruitt&qs=n&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=scott+pruitt&sc=5-12&sk=&cvid=D259C927994647A4BEB58EAC0401EF9E

Consider the source.


1,127 posted on 12/07/2016 3:17:30 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: hoosiermama

Career as Attorney General[edit]

In 2012, Attorney General Pruitt kept Oklahoma out of the mortgage settlement reached by 49 other states with five national lenders, with Pruitt citing differing philosophies of government.[3]

In 2013, Pruitt brought a lawsuit targeting the Affordable Care Act.[4]

In 2013, Pruitt supported the Oklahoma legislature’s bid to join four other states trying to restrict medical abortions by limiting or banning off-label uses of drugs, via House Bill 1970. after the state Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the abortion law was unconstitutional, Pruitt requested that the United States Supreme Court review the case. Pruitt was unhappy with the United States Supreme Court’s rejection of the Oklahoma case.[5][6]

Pruitt was pleased with the decision of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby in June 2014. Pruitt, an acquaintance of the Green family - the founders of Hobby Lobby, filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of their position, that the owners of privately held companies need not provide their employees with birth control, if that goes against their beliefs. In a statement, Pruitt noted, “The founders established a Constitution to protect Americans’ religious freedom from an intrusive federal government. Today’s ruling solidifies the principle that our religion is not a silent practice confined to the four walls of a church, but it is an opportunity to live out our faith in the public square.”[7]

In June 2013, Pruitt maintained that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a provision of DOMA, a federal law that denied federal benefits to homosexual married couples did not affect Oklahoma’s laws on the subject.[8]

Pruitt expressed his dissatisfaction when a federal court ruled that Oklahoma’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage was a violation of the U.S. Constitution.[9]

In October 2014, Pruitt criticized the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear Oklahoma’s appeal in the same-sex marriage case.[10]

On March 6, 2014, Pruitt joined a lawsuit targeting California’s prohibition on the sale of eggs laid by caged hens kept in conditions more restrictive than those approved by California voters. Less than a week later, Pruitt announced that he would investigate the Humane Society of the United States, one of the principal proponents of the California law.[11][12]

On September 9, 2014, in Pruitt v. Burwell, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma ruled against the IRS.[13]

In October 2014, a California judge dismissed the lawsuit, rejecting the arguments of Pruitt and the other attorneys-general concerning California’s Proposition 2, a 2008 ballot initiative. Judge Kimberly Mueller ruled that Oklahoma and the other states lacked legal standing to sue on behalf of their residents and that Pruitt and other plaintiffs were representing the interests of egg farmers, rather than “a substantial statement of their populations.” [14][15][16]

In November 2014, after the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked the enforcement of two abortion-related laws until after their constitutionality was litigated (which could take up to a year or more), Pruitt’s office communicated the Attorney General’s intention to support their implementation and enforcement.[17] [18]

Pruitt has also sued the United States Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Oklahoma utilities unwilling to take on the burdens of additional regulation of their coal-fired plants, and criticized the agency in a congressional hearing. [19][20] This is one of several lawsuits Pruitt has failed against the EPA.[21]

Pruitt ran unopposed in the 2014 primary election and won the November 2014 election for a new term as Attorney General.[22]

On December 6, 2014, the New York Times reported that Pruitt copied the text of an energy lobbyist’s letter to the Environmental Protection Agency and pasted it on official Oklahoma state letterhead and sent it to the EPA arguing that the EPA wasn’t properly measuring pollution from natural gas drilling in Oklahoma.[23]

In April 2015, news reports indicated Pruitt believed distribution of religious material to public school students was constitutional.[24]

On October 2, 2015, Pruitt asked to delay all scheduled executions in Oklahoma due to a mix-up involving a drug the state intended to use in the lethal injections.[25]

After the organization “Oklahomans for Health” collected the legally required number of signatures for a referendum ballot on the legalization of medical marijuana, in August 2016, Scott Pruitt’s office moved to rewrite the ballot title, but not in time for the November, 2016 election. The measure will appear on the 2018 ballot.[26][27]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pruitt


1,128 posted on 12/07/2016 3:21:38 PM PST by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass.)
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To: freepersup

A good “trouble maker”!

Trump has certainly tapped in to this tough group of patriots !

More smiles today!


1,129 posted on 12/07/2016 3:26:29 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: hoosiermama

Exactly! Its a perfect set up.


1,130 posted on 12/07/2016 3:29:49 PM PST by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: hoosiermama

YES!

Trump to pick foe of Obama climate agenda to run EPA -source

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN13W2HE

Trump to name Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general suing EPA on climate change, to head the EPA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/07/trump-names-scott-pruitt-oklahoma-attorney-general-suing-epa-on-climate-change-to-head-the-epa/?utm_term=.b3b25529ac0a

Trump Reportedly Picks Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt To Lead EPA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/07/503626660/trump-reportedly-picks-oklahoma-attorney-general-scott-pruitt-to-lead-epa

EXCERPT [The Sierra Club released a statement that called Pruitt “unfit” to lead the EPA.

“Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires,” it read in part. “He is a climate science denier who, as Attorney General for the state of Oklahoma, regularly conspired with the fossil fuel industry to attack EPA regulations.”]


1,131 posted on 12/07/2016 3:30:14 PM PST by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass.)
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To: freepersup
Dan Scavino Jr.-

President-Elect -DonaldTrump Intends to Nom @Linda_McMahon to Serve as the Administrator of the Small Business...


1,132 posted on 12/07/2016 3:34:18 PM PST by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: NIKK

UPDATE on #DumpKelloggs Boycott!
- 401,603 people have joined -
http://www.breitbart.com/dumpkelloggs/

Join the Movement Against Kellogg’s Bigo


1,133 posted on 12/07/2016 3:34:51 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: freepersup

Thanks.


1,134 posted on 12/07/2016 3:37:30 PM PST by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: NIKK

GREAT!

For today’s picks- they are...

Branstad- AMB to China
Kelly- DHS
Pruitt- EPA
McMahon- SBA
DJT- TIME’s Person of the Year

Woot! Woot! All Aboard!


1,135 posted on 12/07/2016 3:38:34 PM PST by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass.)
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To: NIKK

You are MOST welcome!


1,136 posted on 12/07/2016 3:40:52 PM PST by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass.)
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To: NIKK

Go Linda !

Wrestle Em and pin Em down !


1,137 posted on 12/07/2016 3:54:10 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: hoosiermama

With every Trump pick, the PEOTUS’s instincts and political intelligence is revealed, and exceeds every single GOP candidate’s “conservative” credentials, by MAGNITUDES!

George Will goes full retard and calls Trump’s conduct “socialism”. This clown’s image is in the dictionary under the word- irrelevant, and a cross reference says... to see the word; butt-hurt.


1,138 posted on 12/07/2016 3:55:04 PM PST by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass.)
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To: stars & stripes forever
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1,139 posted on 12/07/2016 3:59:29 PM PST by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: lysie

OH my lysie I missed my 5K breakfast today lobster and crab cakes I am so bummed I had to work WOW, just WOW I am drooling!!!!


1,140 posted on 12/07/2016 4:05:38 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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