RZ appeared to be a strong patriot & conservative.
I wonder wazzup with his leaving?
Probably just tired of it. Remember that interior, just like EPA head, is a position where you’re not just fighting the media and the democrats but the government-lifer staff on the payroll who is SUPPOSED to be your employees and direct reports are actively trying to do anything that they can to personally destroy you, too.
I think every administration appointee believes they will be hounded to death by the new Dem congress. They’ll investigate & investigate just to harass them to death. Since RZ’s been effective, they’ll be sure to go after him. Probably wise to leave now.
Got the pipeline as well as the oil drilling in Alaska somewhere.
I’m a little disappointed with this one. He seemed like one of the good guys to have on our side. At the least, he was not the usual lefty Kumbaya type most Interior Secretary’s have been.
There are a couple of conservation organizations I’m familiar with.
Leave No Trace Inc. is all about barely using the land. I once got yelled at by a Leave No Trace guy for tossing a paper plate into a campfire. Until I reminded him that paper was made from wood.
Tread Lightly Inc is another organization. They are more into “go ahead and enjoy your ATV, but be responsible” type conservation.
I always saw Zinke as a Tread Lightly kind of guy.
We, the Bible thump'em schleps, never get the real truth. We get snippets, and rumors and expert's views, and deploreable opinions {those are mine}, but wazzup???
Only the Shadow knows.
Normal people leave government appointments after a few years. Maybe go home (not Washington DC) and go back to normal. Our entire form of government was built with this in mind, whether or not it was expressly stated. Nobody in their right mind expects people to move to DC and stay there forever.
and rather than make another post, I think Sarah Palin would be a good choice for this role for the next few years.
Supposed ethics violations that the dems promised to hound him on in the next congress, he doesn’t want to be bankrupted with this crap.
He was outspoken and not afraid to stand up to dems and eco-Nazis.
So he has “multiple ethics charges” lodged against him.
I read he was yet another Trump supporter damaged by the cost of fighting against Swamp lawfare.