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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

Attrition by relocation is a time-honored management technique. That Nome, Alaska office needs your experience.


41 posted on 06/21/2017 3:33:22 PM PDT by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: Twotone

meanwhile break up their big fancy offices into 6-8 cubicles...

sell off the expensive furniture and give them what the military use...metal cabinets and desks...


42 posted on 06/21/2017 3:37:22 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: AustinBill

There are places on the northern border it would be considered homicide to assign these delicate Washington flowers to.


43 posted on 06/21/2017 3:47:08 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: Okeydoker

The Mexicans are invading?


44 posted on 06/21/2017 3:49:28 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: RightGeek

That is just priceless!


45 posted on 06/21/2017 3:53:07 PM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: RightGeek

That was outstanding! The good old days. Sniff. Reagan bounced 50,000 people. Brings a tear to my eye.


46 posted on 06/21/2017 4:16:24 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
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To: grobdriver
Adak, Alaska needs more Senior Executive Service employees.

Only in the winter months. Senior Interior talent is needed in Guam in the summer months. We need to cut back on heat and AC too to save the planet and all.

47 posted on 06/21/2017 4:48:01 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: bk1000

SWAMP REASSIGNMENT

Give each reassign:

An open, visible, low barrier cubicle, so everybody can see the worker.

1 pc computer with small harddrive.

No video games. No internet connection.

SIT THERE FOR 8 HOURS A DAY.

Watch the paint dry ...

Take bets on how long the employee lasts.


48 posted on 06/21/2017 4:57:08 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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To: Twotone
"...received letters yesterday informing them that they may be reassigned..."

Maybe he can't fire them, but can "reassign" them to some ungodly backwater.
Works the same.

49 posted on 06/21/2017 4:58:35 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Twotone

Hope we can trust Zinke. First he supported Trump and volunteered to help the Admin. Then he renounced Trump after P***ygate. Now he’s back again.


50 posted on 06/21/2017 6:16:31 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: Twotone

Need to rubber room the hard cases - report to a room with no computer access, no phone access, no system access through smart phones, etc. No duties or work at all - just sit there. This would be cheaper than firing them and fighting the civil service rules and lawsuits.


51 posted on 06/21/2017 7:54:33 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Twotone

I think that a lot of people here don’t understand how the minds of these Leftists work.

THEY CRAVE POWER over people. That is their entire reason for being alive. They SALIVATE in the destruction of people that who they don’t like...for whatever demented reason they have.

Taking these guys out of their power positions and ‘re-assigning’ them to count corn kernels, even at $225k per year, is a HORRIBLE existence for them. As others here have said, many, perhaps most will resign. I’ll add a bit, some will literally go insane (they’ll respond like people put in solitary), and a few may well take their own lives.

That’s who these people are.


52 posted on 06/21/2017 8:43:48 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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