{"id":15042,"date":"2018-03-30T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T23:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15042"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T23:38:25","slug":"scandal-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/30\/scandal-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Steve Benen, today’s scandal is\u00a0EPA\u00a0<\/b><\/i>Administrator Scott Pruitt’s living arrangements in Washington, as\u00a0explained\u00a0<\/a>by\u00a0Bloomberg Politics<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s lease at a Washington apartment owned by a lobbyist friend allowed him to pay $50 a night for a single bedroom — but only on the nights when he actually slept there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not so bad?<\/p>\n

The owner is a health care lobbyist, Vicki Hart. Her husband J. Steven Hart, is also a lobbyist and his firm represents clients in industries regulated by the EPA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ooops. But there’s more, as Steve helpfully\u00a0notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ABC News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0yesterday on a first-class trip Pruitt took to Morocco late last year \u2013 it cost $40,000 and you paid for it \u2013 in order to have the EPA chief pitch \u201cthe potential benefit of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports on Morocco\u2019s economy.\u201d\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

But what makes this story so much worse is the second half of the controversy. As ABC News\u00a0added<\/a>, \u201cCheniere Energy Inc. owned the only active Liquid Natural Gas export plant in the United States at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why is that important? Because for much of 2017, Pruitt \u201coccupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, property records from 2017 show.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lobbyist\u2019s firm specifically lobbies on liquid natural gas exports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pruitt’s a real Swamp Monster, apparently. But it was Steve’s last comment that caught my attention:<\/p>\n

Postscript<\/em>: Twelve years ago, with Republicans controlling the White House, the Senate, and the House, Democrats had a fair amount of success running against the GOP\u2019s \u201cculture of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

The party may want to consider dusting off that playbook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I actually have to kinda wonder about that. After all, when it’ll actually take three or four minutes\u00a0just to list\u00a0<\/i>all the scandals in the White House as well as Congress, before getting to the full scale ineptitude and rank incompetence, well, no one will sit still for a political ad of that magnitude.<\/p>\n

But it’s like Fogo de Ch\u00e3o<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for wolves and lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Steve Benen, today’s scandal is\u00a0EPA\u00a0Administrator Scott Pruitt’s living arrangements in Washington, as\u00a0explained\u00a0by\u00a0Bloomberg Politics: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s lease at a Washington apartment owned by a lobbyist friend allowed him to pay $50 a night for a single bedroom — but only on the nights when he actually \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15043,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions\/15043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}