Top Pruitt aide resigns from EPA amid controversies

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A top aide and close friend of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has issued her resignation in the midst of various scandals plaguing the agency chief.

Samantha Dravis, the senior counsel and associate administrator in EPA's Office of Policy, tendered her resignation last week, the agency confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

The sudden departure is described by one source with close knowledge of Dravis’s relationship with Pruitt as a “five-alarm story.”

Dravis has a long history with Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma.

She previously worked with Pruitt as policy director and general counsel at the Republican Attorneys General Association. She was also president of the Rule of Law Defense Fund, affiliated with the same organization, and before that legal counsel at Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce — an organization of conservative political donors led by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.

The source described the relationship between Pruitt and Dravis as a close friendship, saying the aide was Pruitt's "best friend" and someone he had dinner with "several times every week."

An EPA official pushed back on the characterization that the two had a close personal relationship, saying that Pruitt frequently had meals with his staffers, the majority of which were in group settings.

Dravis declined to comment for the story.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/381773-top-pruitt-aide-resigns-from-epa-amid-controversies?userid=229233

[Angry Dragon]

1. Nothing wrong with a close personal relationship,

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Blonds seem very popular in DC right now

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. She was on the beachhead team

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Updated August 31, 2017

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3. Is she one of the two staff people who got the big raises?

The raises that Pruitt didn't know anything about?

[marylandblue]

6. No.

[malaise]

4. 3...2...1

before the affair seeps out like the rest of pus associated with these despicable deplorable party of family values ReTHUG scumbags.

[Tanuki]

5. I wonder what his wife thinks of her husband's "best friend" who dines with him

several times a week and who went along on his recent trip to Morocco?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5582299/amp/Female-aide-embattled-Scott-Pruitt-helped-bring-Rob-Porter-resigns.html

Side note...she also dated Rob Porter and was the first one to alert Don McGahn to Potter's history of serial spouse abuse.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. "She was also president of the Rule of Law Defense Fund"

Apparently, that fund is either misnamed or she didn't actually learn anything while there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Turns out she may not have actually....worked...in the office....

Ms. Dravis’ departure comes on the heels of questions raised by Senator Thomas Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, about her work history.

According to a letter that Mr. Carper sent to the E.P.A. inspector general, Ms. Dravis did not attend work or perform her duties for most of November, December and January while continuing to draw a salary. The March 28 letter, obtained by The New York Times, said the information “raises questions” about whether the agency is adhering to internal rules regarding employee time and attendance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/climate/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-pressure.html

I just posted this, with a hat tip back to you for this story.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&stop=1

Notice she "resigns" right after the Senator questioned her attendance.

[Achilleaze]

10. Smells like another republican SEX scandal lies beneath the taxpayer ripoff crap

frikken republicans have values of scumbuckets...