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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: Sacajaweau

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

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Indeed. Seems the media - even this no-name blogger - has to snark all the time.

Palin is one I neither support nor oppose. But this constant attacking is getting to be too much.


41 posted on 12/09/2016 12:34:27 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
Palin for Secretary of State!

Since we are at War with the Left, that's the best idea in ages. That would immediately explode the heads of about 80-90% of Lefties. Mission accomplished. Victory!

42 posted on 12/09/2016 12:34:50 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Red Steel

if you really want it, you won’t get it


43 posted on 12/09/2016 12:35:06 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am a fan of the NFL and NBA drafts. The most amusing part is how the journalist experts rate the picks before the players have ever played a single pro game.

That is what’s going on with Trump’s picks.


44 posted on 12/09/2016 12:36:36 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: SeekAndFind

Bullshite! He “shunned” millions of others who might be qualified if this is the criteria.

Just the facts ma’am.


45 posted on 12/09/2016 12:37:15 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: BAW
"Maybe Sarah doesn’t want the job"

I'll believe that when I see it written from Sarah herself.

Until then, I am EXTREMELY disappointed in Trump. Sarah was with him from day 1 until the end. She kept him alive in Iowa and she helped him win in Michigan.

Bah!

46 posted on 12/09/2016 12:37:35 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: Art in Idaho

I know. I would absolutely love it.


47 posted on 12/09/2016 12:37:45 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: SeekAndFind

Good move, getting rid of idiot Cathy McMorris & maybe a conservative can serve that district.

As well as getting rid of another imbecile out of house leadership.

Now it’s lead by the unlikeable Paul Ryan & others; not bimbos Renee Ellmers & Cathy.


48 posted on 12/09/2016 12:37:55 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (For all intents and purposes, Tim Kaine is a golden retriever.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was hoping for Gov Brewer. Someone with executive experience


49 posted on 12/09/2016 12:38:01 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: Captainpaintball
I rarely, if ever true an American woman with a hyphenated name, and this one is no exception. She is one of the stupidest people in Congress

Now, now, now.

I'm sure her husband; Mr. McMorris Rodgers would disagree with you.

50 posted on 12/09/2016 12:38:02 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“...She is the female Eric Cantor...”
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Yep...this will get her out of the House & the House leadership. Hopefully we’ll get an actual conservative in her vacated leadership post. One can hope, anyhow.


51 posted on 12/09/2016 12:41:10 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Shuns”?

So says Tyler Durden whoever he is, of Zero Hedge.

Does FR have to keep posting these articles with Leftist connotations from essentially anonymous sources?


52 posted on 12/09/2016 12:41:49 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: eCSMaster

He may not want the constant distracting “press drama” that would occur in appointing Palin to something. It could get in the way of getting something done.


53 posted on 12/09/2016 12:44:13 PM PST by Reily
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To: socal_parrot

I notice none of the rumored “celebrity” cabinet candidates are coming through;

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Sometimes it would be nice to know where the rumor orginated.


54 posted on 12/09/2016 12:49:27 PM PST by deport
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To: euram

Maybe, but she criticized one of Trump’s other picks, I think. Not smart.


55 posted on 12/09/2016 12:51:49 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: SeekAndFind
EARTH FIRST! We'll strip mine the other planets later.
56 posted on 12/09/2016 12:52:36 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Palin is somewhat of a fraud. She jacked up taxes on oil companies in Alaska to buy votes, and then she packed up and left. She has always impressed me as someone who wants to keep her name in the limelight in order to make money at speaking engagements, etc., but she is not the great conservative that people think she is.


57 posted on 12/09/2016 12:53:01 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: EternalHope

We are also big Sarah Palin fans and I had forgotten about her husband Todd’s situation. Maybe that’s the reason but I know my husband is going to be very very upset that she wasn’t chosen for Secretary of the Interior. We’ll have to wait and see what happens. She paved the way and showed us what would happen when a real Patriot ran for office and has the scars to prove it. Always love to see her get some recognition. She carried all that persecution like a true Christian and always had a smile on her face.


58 posted on 12/09/2016 12:53:09 PM PST by Just a little eagle
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To: Reily

for the next 4 years! People would forget Trump was the President


59 posted on 12/09/2016 12:53:23 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: hotsteppa

McMorris Rodgers is about as conservative as a turnip. She is Paul Ryan in a skirt.


60 posted on 12/09/2016 12:53:57 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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