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Trump Shuns Sarah Palin, Picks Cathy McMorris Rodgers For Interior Secretary
Zero Hedge ^ | 12/09/2016

Posted on 12/09/2016 11:54:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind

In what is being touted as further diversification of the president-elect administration, Donald Trump is expected to name Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) to lead the Interior Department, according to reports. McMorris Rodgers gets the nod ahead of Sarah Palin and Harold Hamm.

The candidates mentioned for the Interior Secretary were... 

But as The Hill reports, Trump will tap McMorris-Rodgers, a five-term Republican who represents eastern Washington and is the chair of the House GOP Conference, to lead the department, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

McMorris Rodgers is a vice chair of Trump’s transition team and the highest-ranking woman in GOP leadership. She formally met with Trump on Nov. 20. Her office declined to comment Friday. 

 

If confirmed by the Senate, McMorris Rodgers would lead the 70,000-employee, $12 billion Interior Department, which manages federal lands for both preservation and energy and mineral development, controls offshore drilling and oversees national parks.

 

She would be Trump’s point person on public lands energy development, something Trump said he wants to expand as president. 

 

Trump opposes the Obama administration’s moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands and, in a September speech, proposed a “top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama administration,” an effort that would include the Interior Department.   

 

Trump’s transition website said he “will encourage the production of [fossil fuels] by opening onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands and waters.”

 

Trump, though, has professed a view of federal land ownership that is relatively moderate compared to some conservatives. 

 

In a speech this week, he said he would follow the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and “conserve and protect our beautiful natural resources for the next generation including protecting lands.” 

 

During his presidential campaign, he said he “[doesn’t] like the idea” of transferring federal lands to states because “I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don’t think it’s something that should be sold." 

McMorris Rodgers is a booster of hydropower and has pushed legislation to tackle forest fires in the West. 

She has voted in favor of expanding fossil fuel development on public lands and in federal areas off-shore. She opposes efforts to change the royalty rates on federal coal mining, something pushed hard by Obama’s Interior Department, and voted for a GOP budget that would allow the sale of public lands to mining companies. 

In the past, she has introduced legislation to require congressional approval before the president can designate a national monument, and a bill directing the Bureau of Land Management to release public lands it holds that it has deemed not suitable for wilderness status.



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1 posted on 12/09/2016 11:54:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Somebody has started a facebook rumor that Palin will be in charge of the Library of Congress.


2 posted on 12/09/2016 11:56:18 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Excellent pick by Trump, who so far has the most conservative cabinet of any Republican presidents.

So much winning.


3 posted on 12/09/2016 11:56:44 AM PST by hotsteppa
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To: SeekAndFind

Ya gotta love the use of the word “shun”....cute...


4 posted on 12/09/2016 11:57:08 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

I doubt if Palin was ever seriously considered for any cabinet level position. Her name was mostly floated by the fakenews media just to stir the pot, and rile up the leftist loons.


5 posted on 12/09/2016 11:59:09 AM PST by euram
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To: SeekAndFind

Shunned? She never wanted to be a secretary.


6 posted on 12/09/2016 12:01:07 PM PST by conservative98
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To: SeekAndFind

This is an excellent pick...some enviro whacko groups scores here a zero which works for me.
She wants us energy independent which in the scary world we live who needs intimidation or fear of OPEC...we have resources...use them!


7 posted on 12/09/2016 12:03:32 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: SeekAndFind

What does Tyler Durden know?


8 posted on 12/09/2016 12:03:41 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Typical liberal divide and conquer, trying to sow discord amongst Trump/Palin supporters. We’ve all heard of ‘community organizing’, well this its journalistic counterpart.


9 posted on 12/09/2016 12:04:11 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

Also it looks like Giuliani and Christie are out of the running for cabinet positions.


10 posted on 12/09/2016 12:04:18 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: SandyInSeattle
I can see Mars from my compound. Truly.

McCain and Linda claim to be able to see Moscow from the Steps of the Capitol.

11 posted on 12/09/2016 12:05:28 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not sure how she feels about it, but to me Governor Palin is more valuable as an independent voice outside of any government structure.

Any President needs to have their actions examined to make sure they are representing the American people; Sarah has shown she’s unafraid to challenge the status quo no matter which party is in power.

Plus, she has a special needs child that requires constant attention. I think she’ll stay in Alaska.


12 posted on 12/09/2016 12:05:48 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cathy McMorris Rodgers is an outstanding pick.

“Trump shuns Palin” in the title is not what this pick means. Palin was mentioned early on as a possibility for Interior, but updates since then seem to emphasize Veterans instead.

I’m a big Sarah Palin fan and hope Trump picks her. If she does not, it may be because her characterization of the Carrier deal as “Cronyism” may have ruled her out. I have seen nothing on how Todd Palin’s recovery is going, and that could be a factor as well.


13 posted on 12/09/2016 12:05:49 PM PST by EternalHope (Something wicked this way comes. Be ready.)
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To: hotsteppa

how is this a conservative pick? Not that I particularly care who gets this position Sarah would have been great because the media would have freaked out and that would have providing hours of entertainment but did she even care to have the position? Probably not


14 posted on 12/09/2016 12:06:27 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: SeekAndFind

Shun implies and unimpressed disapproval based on inferiority.

#fakenews


15 posted on 12/09/2016 12:07:19 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Trump actually make this statement or did another social commentator (they used to be called “journalists)simply repeat a rumor another social commentator made??


16 posted on 12/09/2016 12:07:22 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe Sarah doesn’t want the job. She’s pretty effective right where she is at . . . as a king maker.


17 posted on 12/09/2016 12:07:48 PM PST by BAW (It is Yuge!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another solid pick...

Here are some of her quotes from Wikipedia.

“Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.”

“Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.”

“Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.”


18 posted on 12/09/2016 12:09:40 PM PST by aquila48
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To: euram

Amen

Sarah is a target and would do my harm than good simply being who she is. She is a fantastic conservative who has had her time of truly useful public service.


19 posted on 12/09/2016 12:10:13 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: SandyInSeattle

She might be good at that. I think Palin is a little too unstable and unpredictable to have a position as visible as Dept of the Interior. I liked her when she started out and was still Governor of Alaska, but then I think she became a personality in her own mind and forgot her principles.

She might be great at the Library of Congress, which is something that needs serious reform...and has ever since Sandy Berger was allowed to walk out with documents in his socks and never held to account by the Ultimate Gentleman, GWB.


20 posted on 12/09/2016 12:10:41 PM PST by livius
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