Posted on 06/21/2017 1:51:23 PM PDT by Twotone
Trump’s Interior Department Secretary, Montana rancher and former Navy Seal Ryan Zinke, is proving to be more than just a dramatic contrast to Obama’s Interior chief, liberal Democrat recreation industry exec., Sally Jewell. Zinke’s getting to work unraveling her legacy–and that of previous progressive predecessors–in short order. Beyond the Obama monument land grabs, which are currently under review as ordered by President Trump, with significant reductions and reversals in the works, Zinke is breaking up the bureaucratic status quo in his department’s upper echelons. On June 16, Greenwire reported:
Dozens of Senior Executive Service employees — career officials within the federal government — received letters yesterday informing them that they may be reassigned as early as June 28, the newspaper said.
“Personnel moves are being conducted to better serve the taxpayer and the Department’s operations through matching Senior Executive skill sets with mission and operational requirements,” said Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift in an email. She noted that Zinke mentioned the “Department-wide, front lines-focused reorganization on his first day address to all employees.”
It is not unusual for new cabinet members, who wield considerable power in reworking their respective departments, to shake things up, but Zinke is using his clout to shift manpower and influence out of Washington D.C. beltway bureaucracy into the ‘field,’ or those areas where federal policies have real-world consequences for states and localities.
(Excerpt) Read more at freerangereport.com ...
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! Zinke!!
This is one exceptionally smart cookie. Watch him: future President material.
The mass transfer of top management is a master stroke, although credit where it’s due, it’s a strategy the Nixon admin used.
“Zimke is reassigning, not firing people”
It is my understanding these people cannot be easily fired. Reassigning troublemakers to insignificant positions is a good move to start. It could take months to fire these people. It ain’t right, but that’s the way they do it.
He can’t. But not to worry, 80% or so will quit or retire. The ones left will be the best and the worst. The best will do great things and he can fire the worst over time.
Adak, Alaska needs more Senior Executive Service employees.
As in, taking kings off their thrones and putting them to cleaning "thrones".
How many months will they put up with counting paper clips before they quit? Meanwhile, the damage they can do is very small.
Nope. Zinke is making lemonade out of a lemon. He can’t fire civil servants without cause. So, he transfers them instead. The bulk will quit rather than leave the DC hive. Many, but not all of those who remain are performers who will thrive on the change and opportunity. These are the people he wants to keep anyway.
Hahahaha!!
You’re far too kind. Some obscure part of the Navajo Indian reservation will do.
i think that they will run out of janitor closets to reassign for their office space. . . . .
They will have 3 weeks to accept re-assignment or resign.
This is something J. Christian Adams has advocated - he is the guy who left DOJ after being told the stop all investigation into the Black Panthers intimidating voters in 2008(?).
Bkmark
Here’s hoping the thought of having to live in the real world will terrify at least 50% of them into retiring.
Or looking for consulting jobs or lobbying.
Buh bye.
Yes there will be numerous resignations and retirements. The ranks of the lobbyists will swell, but they are thick as gnats already so the marginal change will be insignificant.
“He seems to be the one Trump appointee who is taking our advice and transferring people out of their ivory towers. Hopefully many will resign or retire rather than move.”
He WAS my congressman. I’m happy to see that he is doing well in his new ‘digs.’
Let’s remember his replacement, my new congress critter (whom I worked for early this century), decked a reporter.
MAGA!
HOORAY Ryan Zinke!!!
There will be some worth keeping. Zinke is utterly methodical so those worth keeping have likely already been identified and will stay and thrive at their new jobs.
FWIW, I bet Zinke knew in detail how he wanted to shake things up before he even took the job. Which is why our President hired him.
Here’s how it worked when Reagan did it http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/07/us/reagan-rif-effect-puts-bosses-in-typing-pools.html
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.