Posted on 09/29/2022 8:45:30 PM PDT by bitt
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain‘s wife, Monica Medina, has been selected as President Joe Biden‘s newly-created Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources.
To steal a tongue-in-cheek phrase from New England radio legend Howie Carr, Medina was “chosen after a nationwide search,” I’m sure. We actually don’t know because the State Department refused to say.
When asked point blank if there was a nationwide search process, a State Department spokesperson skirted the question and instead claimed this wasn’t a new position at all.
“The Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources is not a new position but rather a new designation by the Secretary of State of an existing Senate-confirmed appointee to lead on these issues,” the spokesperson said. “Assistant Secretary Medina was designated for this role given the overlap with her work as head of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.”
As for what exactly she’ll do under this “new designation”? According to The Washington Post, she is now the first ever diplomat for plants and animals.
“As temperatures rise and habitats shrink, hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species around the world are at risk of vanishing,” The Post asserted. “For the first time, the United States is designating a special diplomat to advocate for global biodiversity amid what policymakers here and overseas increasingly recognize as an extinction crisis.”
Medina does have experience in this area, yet one minor detail was kept out of The Post’s original reporting. The paper whose tagline is “Democracy Dies In Darkness” at first kept the fact that Medina is Klain’s wife in the dark.
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Klain has tremendous diplomatic powers when it comes to plants and animals; beware America.
What about me? I communicate well with my 100 pound bundle of love, a Rotten Shepherd.
“Just an endless and ongoing process of handing out $150K-$170K sinecures to insiders.”
Yep. And she will quietly be given Civil Service protection so she can never ever be fired from this “job”.
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So, not the Bee.
Brown lentils, Black Barley, Coarse white polenta! (Bad white people!)
Not sure where they want to go here, but somehow I see more regulation for farmers and gardeners rather than promotion of plant diversity.
Biden’s a vegetable so it looks like she’ll be representing him.
It’s a money grab. Klain is leaving and they need the dough to maintain their lifestyle.
Big time cashing in at taxpayer expense. The Leftist socialists sure love cashing in off the taxpayers.
So, President Lorax found someone who speak for the trees!
Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources waters plant on WH lawn $300.00 a year plus perks.
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