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Zinke moves to drain the swamp at Interior Department
Free Range Report ^ | June 19, 2017 | Marjorie Haun

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.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: deptoftheinterior; ryanzinke; somuchwinning; swamp
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To: Twotone

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.


21 posted on 06/21/2017 2:15:11 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (In the medium term, islam wins)
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To: Nextrush

“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.


22 posted on 06/21/2017 2:17:43 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: JPJones

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.


23 posted on 06/21/2017 2:23:01 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (In the medium term, islam wins)
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To: Twotone

Adak, Alaska needs more Senior Executive Service employees.


24 posted on 06/21/2017 2:23:01 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Nextrush
Zimke is reassigning, not firing people.

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.

25 posted on 06/21/2017 2:23:47 PM PDT by thulldud
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To: Nextrush

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.


26 posted on 06/21/2017 2:27:44 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (In the medium term, islam wins)
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To: Twotone
Relocated to a nice ag research station in Iowa.


27 posted on 06/21/2017 2:28:26 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: JPJones

Hahahaha!!


28 posted on 06/21/2017 2:31:05 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Mariner
Send them to count sod poodles in Harding County NM. 2100 square miles, 630 people.


29 posted on 06/21/2017 2:33:48 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PLMerite

You’re far too kind. Some obscure part of the Navajo Indian reservation will do.


30 posted on 06/21/2017 2:44:05 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (In the medium term, islam wins)
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To: Twotone

i think that they will run out of janitor closets to reassign for their office space. . . . .


31 posted on 06/21/2017 2:47:12 PM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: Enchante

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(?).


32 posted on 06/21/2017 2:54:47 PM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Twotone
This is excellent. Disempowering the SES is going right to the deepest heart of the Swamp. These are the malefactors who have the power to sabotage presidential directives, resist change, and insure that nothing good happens.
33 posted on 06/21/2017 3:01:25 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Qiviut

Bkmark


34 posted on 06/21/2017 3:02:36 PM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: RKBA Democrat

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.


35 posted on 06/21/2017 3:07:55 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: RKBA Democrat
This is the most effective feasible solution to this neck of the Swamp-- These people are DC careerists, they don't give a flip about the country outside the Beltway, and wouldn't be caught dead moving to "the Interior" they have been messing with for their whole blighted careers.

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.

36 posted on 06/21/2017 3:10:45 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: tiki

“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!


37 posted on 06/21/2017 3:16:07 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Twotone

HOORAY Ryan Zinke!!!


38 posted on 06/21/2017 3:23:34 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: hinckley buzzard

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.


39 posted on 06/21/2017 3:27:55 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (In the medium term, islam wins)
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To: Twotone

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


40 posted on 06/21/2017 3:28:46 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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