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EPA chief claims he needs first-class flights to avoid 'unpleasant' interactions with taxpayers
The Week ^ | February 14, 2018 | Jeva Lange

Posted on 02/15/2018 5:50:21 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

It seemed like it could be the great mystery of our time: What unspecified threats require Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Scott Pruitt to fly almost exclusively in business or first class? A spokesperson told CBS News on Tuesday that "due to security concerns" the secretary "has a blanket waiver to fly in first or business class,"

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EPA chief claims he needs first-class flights to avoid 'unpleasant' interactions with taxpayers in coach

1 posted on 02/15/2018 5:50:21 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Those should have been his last words as a federal employee.


2 posted on 02/15/2018 5:51:15 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I do remember seeing how the Ivanka and fam were treated flying coach.


4 posted on 02/15/2018 5:53:33 AM PST by McCarthysGhost
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To: ilovesarah2012

1. 99.99% of the public would never recognize him.
2. If you can’t stand the heat (it’s not global warming), then get out of the kitchen.


5 posted on 02/15/2018 5:53:51 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: WayneS

constant inter action with you would be mentally distressing.

the man is correct


6 posted on 02/15/2018 5:53:55 AM PST by Thibodeaux (The FISA judge is corrupt)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Get rid of the EPA and replace it with a much smaller, de-weaponized version that actually does good for the nation and its people. This guy is “in trouble” because of Obama and his goons weaponizing the EPA, the IRS, etc as political weapons.

Keep draining Mr. President....


7 posted on 02/15/2018 5:54:07 AM PST by EagleUSA
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Yeah...that would be the unhinged environMENTAL whack jobs who are friends with the guy who wrote this article. He should have secret service protection. Remember the people who tried to “arrest” Dick Cheney on the street! Yeah...those freaks!


8 posted on 02/15/2018 5:56:25 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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Well, flying these days is like being on a flying wal-mart in the sky. The peasants truly are revolting


9 posted on 02/15/2018 5:58:35 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: ilovesarah2012

How does whats-her-name from Houston get to bump other 1st Class Passengers and get away with it? Who is paying for her to fly that level?


10 posted on 02/15/2018 6:00:45 AM PST by jettester (I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
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To: WayneS
Actually he's been one of Trump's most "controversial" appointments, because he's been effectively deregulating crippling environmental policy.

The left hates his guts, hence the media hit piece.

Just a hunch, but I'm guessing the travel expenses of Obama's appointees were of little concern to the MSM.

11 posted on 02/15/2018 6:02:22 AM PST by daler
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To: ilovesarah2012

Granted his comment was idiotic ... OTH, Mooch took a separate plane on a number of occasions ... I didn’t notice the MSM taking issue with that.


12 posted on 02/15/2018 6:03:26 AM PST by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: gr8eman

You get it. The article is a whitewash of how eco terrorists and other liberals have threatened his life & his family. He is doing a very hazardous job for us.


13 posted on 02/15/2018 6:05:22 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: daler

Just a hunch, but I’m guessing the travel expenses of Obama’s appointees were of little concern to the MSM.


Someone should investigate and report on that.


14 posted on 02/15/2018 6:05:40 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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EPA chief claims he needs first-class flights to avoid 'unpleasant' interactions with taxpayers

Wasn't it something very similar that got Tom Price fired?

15 posted on 02/15/2018 6:06:35 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Strzok and Page - The very definition of SEDITION and TREASON!)
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I kind of agree with him. Why should he have to be subjected to constant abuse by never-Trumpers, Enviro nuts,BLM,etc.

In many parts of the country a person risks their life by wearing a MAGA hat.Think about what this guy has to endure.

In first class the attendants are right there and will stop people from abusing him.


16 posted on 02/15/2018 6:07:06 AM PST by Jacvin
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To: EagleUSA
Get rid of the EPA and replace it with a much smaller, de-weaponized version that actually does good for the nation and its people. This guy is “in trouble” because of Obama and his goons weaponizing the EPA, the IRS, etc as political weapons.

Keep draining Mr. President....

All such agencies and organizations on the FedGov take need to become advisory to congress. 2 staff per state, per agency. Then let congress make laws, re-write laws or rescind laws on their advice.

Federal marshals will law enforce those laws with hired contractor specialists as needed.

17 posted on 02/15/2018 6:07:51 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: ilovesarah2012
I have some sympathy for Pruitt on this.

His outstanding work at EPA have put him in the crosshairs of every radical environmental nut in the world.

He has been set up for confrontations by people who leaked his schedule and itinerary that weren't just unpleasant, they were dangerous.

Controlled access of Business or First Class is vital to his safety and sanity.

The guy is at the Director level and still fly commercial - his Obama predecessor flew around on the same government business jets used and abused by Loretta Lynch - so it's not like he is abusing travel allotments

18 posted on 02/15/2018 6:10:01 AM PST by rdcbn
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Given the left physically attacks Trump Administration members, he should not fly in coach.


19 posted on 02/15/2018 6:13:39 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Funny article. It reminds of the guy who, after threatening to kill someone with the gun he's holding, says to the cops who show up, "What? I was just kidding!"

I seem to recall Mr. Pruitt receiving death threats because he doesn't swallow the glow-bull warming scam of the Left. Conservatives don't threaten people with violence, only the Left does that. I say protect him so he can do his job.

20 posted on 02/15/2018 6:14:44 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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