I got my answer! A civil rights leader and official at La Raza.
An unelected, unconfirmed punk that whows nothing about energy. Typical Zer0 move - from a man who had never, ever had a job where somebody reported to him.
Administration Meets With Industry Trade Reps Moments After Announcing Interagency Group on Fracking
So it’s not surprising that, on the same day as this executive order, here comes Cass Sunstein, meeting with industry trade groups about fracking and natural gas development. What is surprising is that I didn’t find out about this from a Freedom of Information Act or a secret investigation. No, the White House released a readout on the meeting:
Today, OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein and Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate policy Heather Zichal convened a White House meeting with key stakeholders, including representatives from the American Chemistry Council, the American Gas Association, the American Natural Gas Association, the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers, to discuss the recently issued Executive Order supporting safe and responsible development of unconventional domestic natural gas resources. The new Executive Order establishes a deputy-level interagency working group to coordinate policy and to promote sensible, cost-effective approaches.
So the very first thing done in the wake of this interagency working group is that Cass Sunstein gets in a room with the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and every other lobbyist with a tenuous connection to fracking. And they’re downright proud of it! They’re loudly announcing it in press releases!
Right from the White House itself.
The Interagency Working Group to Support Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources will be chaired by the Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Oh yeah, you guessed it, here it comes...
Director of Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz
Cecilia Muñoz is the President’s Domestic Policy Advisor and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, which coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House. Previously, Ms. Muñoz served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Cecilia served as Senior Vice-President for the Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. She supervised NCLR’s policy staff covering a variety of issues of importance to Latinos, including civil rights, employment, poverty, farmworker issues, education, health, housing, and immigration. Her particular area of expertise is immigration policy, which she covered at NCLR for twenty years.
Ms. Muñoz is the former Chair of the Board of Center for Community Change, and served on the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Institute and the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Philanthropies and the National Immigration Forum.
Ms. Muñoz is the daughter of immigrants from Bolivia and was born in Detroit, Michigan. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. In June 2000, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in recognition of her work on immigration and civil rights. In 2007, she served as the Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She has received numerous other awards and recognitions from various sources, including the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and a variety of local non-profit organizations.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/dpc
So... what the ???
I do not see a single item that is any indication whatsoever that she should have ANY input into the management and regulation of the u.S. natural gas industry.
She is pretty much a race pimptress for LaRaza and apparently never had never had a job outside of government (taxpayer) funded "affirmative action" giveaway programs.
So, OF COURSE she will be put in charge of all policy decisions of the entire u.S. natural gas industry.
She is another communist. She was on the board of George Soros’s “Open Society Institute”. She was also on the board for “Center for Community Change” stocked with people from MoveOn and ACORN.
She’s a communist. All of Obama’s appointees are communists.
I detest Romney but I still have yet to hear that he would appoint card-carrying red-diaper communists to every position in government like Obama is doing.
People like Munoz make me terrified for another Obama term, where he has more “flexibility” after his “last election”.
Romney stinks but we simply cannot survive another Obama term. Frankly, I’m dubious whether we can survive his current term.