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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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To: Avid Coug
I live in McMorris-Rogers’ district. She will be someone Trump can count on to follow his administration position on relevant issues. No drama, no embarrassments. Just a good dependable soldier.

I spent about 1/2 hour researching Rep. McMorris Rodgers online, and came to much the same conclusion. Obviously, you have about a 100x better window on that! So, thanks for the info. from (relatively) "up close."

A "good dependable soldier" may be just what's needed to execute the actions needed to help make the US energy independent, rather than a "lightning rod" like Gov. Palin. McMorris-Rogers also seems to be sensible about management of our resources in general - definitely a big(!) plus for the position.

Meanwhile, maybe if Trump got enough suggestions consisting mainly of a map of FedGov land holdings, and the question, "Does the Gov't REALLY need to keep all of this land?", maybe he'd get the idea to sell some of it to pay down the debt.

Regarding Sarah Palin, since she's going to be a lightning rod no matter what, I think the best role for her IF she wants to be in the Trump administration is some sort of very public position fighting corruption. Sarah doesn't have the legal chops to be head of the FBI, or something like that, so I'm not exactly sure what would work. What I do know is that being very visibly involved in taking out some corrupt high level officials could essentially "rebrand" her. That would also maintain the sort of "high visibility" that a continuing "drain the swamp" effort needs...

141 posted on 12/09/2016 4:39:20 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: SeekAndFind

Sarah is a good person.....
But there are so many more qualified people......
Difference between political and effective...


142 posted on 12/09/2016 4:39:27 PM PST by nevergore
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To: Syncro

McMorris-Rogers’ has a child with Down’s Syndrome, so she may well have a personal “connection” with Sarah Palin...


143 posted on 12/09/2016 4:42:39 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: proud American in Canada

Tell me about it, she was ticked off about something.


144 posted on 12/09/2016 4:48:51 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
OMG! Yes, you are right! Truly deplorable....😉 And sick for those young children.
145 posted on 12/09/2016 7:09:13 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Very strange indeed..

Love Sarah and Donald.. perhaps something is going on behind the scenes. ?


146 posted on 12/09/2016 7:24:40 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: Paul R.
Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know about that.
147 posted on 12/09/2016 8:08:13 PM PST by Syncro (RIP Andrew Breitbart, The King of All Media)
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To: Red Steel

No one is out of the running until all positions are filled.

It’s still early in the process.

All the #fakenews (can you spell MSN?) orgs, written oral and visual, are pushing caos and panic.

Conservatives in general and Trump in particular are not taking the bait.


148 posted on 12/09/2016 8:23:13 PM PST by Syncro (RIP Andrew Breitbart, The King of All Media)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is Mark Levin whining so much about all these Trump picks? I honestly get annoyed listening to him now. Today I could only handle about 5 minutes of him railing on Trumps latest picks. He is only satisfied with the national defense picks. What a killjoy.


149 posted on 12/09/2016 8:29:15 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Trumps staff probably just wrote you off as a fanatic if you and your wife both tweeted him an all CAPS histrionic message.

Don’t waste his time.

Palin is and will continued doing just fine without your angry “help”


150 posted on 12/09/2016 8:44:31 PM PST by Syncro (RIP Andrew Breitbart, The King of All Media)
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To: SaraJohnson

Shows how little you know. Palin and Trump are friends. they keep in touch. According to K. Conway, Palin helped advise throughout the campaign. She campaigned for him the last week of the campaign.


151 posted on 12/09/2016 8:53:43 PM PST by Truthfreesus
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To: Artcore

She backed him when he was fighting off Cruz. If she had went with Cruz, I don’t think Trump would have won the primaries. People trust Palin’s conservative stamp of approval. Furhtermore, without the Palin movement in 2008 and beyond, I don’t think there would have been a Trump movement.


152 posted on 12/09/2016 8:57:45 PM PST by Truthfreesus
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To: Truthfreesus

HAH!

If Palin had endorsed Cruz it would of done the same thing her endorsement for Trump did. Absolutely nothing.


153 posted on 12/09/2016 9:39:20 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Syncro

Yes


154 posted on 12/10/2016 4:20:08 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Sacajaweau

I liked the word “tap.” Trump’s tapping a lot of women for his cabinet. Not a lot of blacks so expect some heat from the media on that.


155 posted on 12/10/2016 7:25:04 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the brave)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Did Palin do that? If so I’m done with her.


156 posted on 12/11/2016 12:54:46 AM PST by Democrat_media (bot funded Jill Stein's recount website.12 million $ from Soros behind big scheme)
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To: montag813

I’m done with both of them

Levin worked hard to get Hillary elected by bashing Trump unfairly and relentlessly . ditto for Glen Beck

Palin idolizes Levin and backed him here . Big mistake .I’ll never forget that. Sorry Sarah but this is a breakup!


157 posted on 12/11/2016 1:01:22 AM PST by Democrat_media (bot funded Jill Stein's recount website.12 million $ from Soros behind big scheme)
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To: SeekAndFind
Let this RINO be Trump's “James Watt” and allow Sarah Palin a chance to clean up the VA and make it great again.
158 posted on 12/11/2016 9:06:23 AM PST by Blacklisted (SP4SofVA)
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To: bert
Sarah Palin has had her time? Are you kidding me? She is not even as old as Reagan was when he won his first election yet.

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!

159 posted on 12/11/2016 9:13:33 AM PST by Blacklisted (SP4SofVA)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Lest you forget, Palin’s endorsement of Ted Cruz made him a Senator. Her endorsement of Trump made him our next President.
160 posted on 12/11/2016 9:25:41 AM PST by Blacklisted (SP4SofVA)
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