Crooked to the Core, Corrupt Horse Hater “Dinky” Zinke Can’t Keep His Hands Off From YOUR Wallet!!!
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke, who is being investigated for his use of private planes on the taxpayer dime, is under fresh scrutiny for “mixing political gatherings … during official business.”
According to Interior travel records and other documents seen by POLITICO, the secretary has met with GOP donors and political groups more than a half-dozen times while on taxpayer-funded department trips, including a local Republican Party fundraiser in the U.S. Virgin Islands where donors paid up to $5,000 per couple for a photo-op with Zinke.
“Ethics watchdogs say Zinke is combining politics with his Interior duties so frequently that he risks tripping over the prohibitions against using government resources for partisan activity,” POLITCO reports.
Zinke’s trips do not appear to break the law. For instance, his visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands from March 30 to April 1 was an official trip related to the Interior Dept.’s role overseeing the U.S. territory.
But House Democrats criticized the secretary in a letter sent Tuesday that stated that Zinke’s travels “give the appearance that you are mixing political gatherings and personal destinations with official business.”
Zinke has spent about $20,000 on three charter flights since taking office in March but has dismissed the criticisms as “a little B.S.”
Meanwhile, the former Montana Congressman has also been on blast by whistleblower Joel Clement, a senior official at the Interior Dept. The climate change expert, who was reassigned by Zinke to a completely unrelated office that oversees fees and royalty checks from oil and gas companies, has resigned from his position.
In a resignation letter shared with the Huffington Post, he called out Zinke and President Donald Trump for their “poor leadership.”
“Retaliating against civil servants for raising health and safety concerns is unlawful, but there are many items to add to your resume of failure,” Clement wrote to Zinke.
Those failures include “muzzling scientists and policy experts,” an “arbitrary and sloppy review of our treasured National Monuments,” targeting an Obama-era conservation plan for the greater sage grouse, and compromising tribal sovereignty.
“Secretary Zinke, your agenda profoundly undermines the [Interior Department’s] mission and betrays the American people,” he wrote.
https://www.ecowatch.com/zinke-political-fundraising-2493247480.html
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Hope Zinke is re-assigned to the moon.
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From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
ZINKE COMMANDEERED BOAT FOR CHANNEL ISLANDS JAUNT
Diverted to Pick Up Wife, Aunt, and Guests He Classified as “Technical Experts”
Posted on Oct 04, 2017
Exorbitant travel by the Interior Secretary is not limited to charter planes but includes seagoing vessels, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In mid-April, Ryan Zinke diverted a National Park Service (NPS) boat to pick him and family members up for a three-hour island tour featuring a Junior Ranger swearing-in ceremony.
On April 18th, the NPS boat Ocean Ranger left its Ventura, California port to travel to Santa Barbara Harbor to pick up Zinke, his wife, and aunt to take them and other members of his party to Santa Rosa Island, part of the Channel Islands National Park, and back that same day.
The party spent more time at sea than on the island, with a three-hour itinerary that consisted largely of photo ops, a tour, lunch, and Zinke swearing in middle school students as Junior Rangers. Notably –
• Use of the government ship cost taxpayers around $4,000 dollars, including fuel and crew overtime, an estimate that does not include significant time by several NPS staff people;
• Zinke also brought along two local fishermen whom he classified as “technical experts” though on what issue is unclear. As such, they traveled free; and
• To pay for his wife and aunt, NPS presented Zinke with a bill for $142, which by mid-June increased to $152 in late fees. The bill appears to have been paid by late June.
“There is nothing deeply wrong with this ‘grip-and-grin’ tour but it is galling when the Secretary is telling everyone else to tighten their belts,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch who obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act after employees complained of the time and expense lost for no discernible purpose. “Taxpayers should not foot the bill for public officials acting as tourists.”
The records also describe Zinke expressing a desire to open a “working demonstration ranch” on Santa Rosa Island to “highlight the island’s ranching heritage,” quoting a note from the park superintendent. The Zinke tour group also included members of the Vail family which ran a cattle ranch on the island until 1998 and a commercial hunting operation there until 2011.
The Channel Islands are often called “the Galapagos Islands of North America” due to the unique and wide diversity of plants and animals found nowhere else on earth. In recent years, NPS has undertaken a major and costly effort to preserve and protect these native resources, including removal of nonnative plants and animals, recovery of island foxes, and reestablishment of bald eagles.
“Cattle and imported game animals are not the ‘heritage’ of Santa Rosa but an aberrant moment in its history,” added Ruch, noting a recent Zinke directive to maximize hunting opportunities even on national park lands. “Our major concern is that Ryan Zinke wants to turn this ecological jewel back into a game preserve.”
https://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/zinke-commandeered-boat-for-channel-islands-jaunt.html
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Why can’t we ever get a decent Interior Secretary? And the previous administration’s (environmentally clueless and not a priority) choices were poor too – Ken Salazar, and Sally Jewell, who really did nothing but be a placeholder, and a politically correct choice as a woman. She and the administration set the scene for what’s happening now by doing nothing for the horses, not listing animals for protection who desperately need it such as the sage grouse and wolverine, despite the NAS report she said she was waiting for. Even signing a bill that allows guns in the National Parks!
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pls on top of being illegal..this is a pic of him eating FILLY steak. poor horses cant get a break. he has to go NOW..right now. he is sick in the head and he is not listening to us and he wont. pls protest and sh this pls call dc and demand the safe act from criminals who are taking them to extinction. ideas? supreme court. facts needed. pls do all u can its not just horses extinction its all wildlife and yr land. he is eating fillys!
Horse Slaughter Proponent “Dinky” Zinke Caught Raising Political Funds During Taxpayer-Funded Trips
By Lorraine Chow as published on EcoWatch…
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they are all almost gone. and their meat is IN our food. NOW! its pathetic how they love humans so.
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