Oklahoma Governor Apparently Trump's Top Pick for Interior Secretary

[brooklynite]

Source: Governing

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is emerging as President-elect Donald Trump's leading contender for interior secretary, three people close to Trump's transition team told POLITICO.

Fallin, a Republican who was in contention to serve as Trump's vice president, has been the governor of Oklahoma since 2011. Before that, she served in the U.S. House. She also chaired the National Governors Association from 2013 to 2014.

She huddled with the president-elect at Trump Tower in New York City last week, telling reporters after the meeting that they discussed the oil and gas industry and Native American tribes in Oklahoma. She also touted a recent settlement with tribes in her state.

An advocate of oil and gas development, Fallin signed a bill last year that would prevent Oklahoma cites from enacting bans on drilling.

Read more: http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/Oklahoma-Governor-Trumps-Pick-to-Lead-Interior.html

[DonCoquixote]

1. maybe not as bad as Ms. Palin

but still very bad.

[Paladin]

2. Very, VERY bad.

Dreadfully ironic that she's the Okla. governor. She'll have plenty of experience, siding with the Bundy types against Native Americans....

[mdbl]

4. but she has experience with bad tornados

does that count?

[Paladin]

7. She's in favor of a West so desolate, tornadoes wouldn't be interested in it.

The Bundy clan: yes. Tornadoes: no.

Fuck this country, for what it has allowed to happen. Just fuck it.

[Buzz Clik]

10. "Fuck this country." Living the cliche.

[snooper2]

17. You should check out the stories on her daughter LOL

Trump may have an eye out for her

[Grey Lemercier]

19. Oklahoma governors daughter mocks Native American protesters with war dance

https://www.rawstory.com/2014/04/oklahoma-governors-daughter-mocks-native-american-protesters-war-dance/

Republican Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin this week apologized after her daughter mocked Native Americans with a “war dance,” and her boyfriend directed an offensive middle finger gesture at them.

Last March, the Native American community called for Christina Fallin to apologize after she posted a promotional photo for her band, Pink Pony, to the social media site Instagram of her wearing a red headdress.

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I think you might be right

[snooper2]

20. And she literally lived in a trailer parked on the OK Governor mansion property

couple real quick marriages, just a real class act LOL

Right up Drumpfs alley!

[Grey Lemercier]

21. the Washington press is going to have fun with her

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. At least Palin would have been entertaining in the train wreck sense. nt

[Kittycow]

3. Palin would be insufferable; I hope she's frozen out completely.

Agree Fallin sucks and is more of the same dreadful appointments.

[7962]

6. Palin is too much of a joke to too many people.

I dont see her getting anything. They barely let her on the campaign trail after that one whacked out speech

[mdbl]

11. and Trump is any better?

I am surprised they didn't throw Palin into the trump administration cesspool they have going. She is the only ingredient missing from the soup of pure evil they have going now.

[Kittycow]

14. I kept reading early on she'd be picked for something

which would be rubbing salt into this gaping wound.

[Achilleaze]

15. Ambassador to Russia?

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Comrade Casino and the Randy Republican Raiders need a primo connection to their Russian Puppetmaster, Pooty Poot. Mrs. Sparklemoose can see the joint from her back porch. For Republicans, it's a total No Brainer.

[Kittycow]

30. My first smile of today! Thanks for the giggle :D

[mdbl]

36. ROFL!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The one who invited and encouraged fracking that created

hundreds of earthquakes in her state?

[Paladin]

8. Yeah, when she wasn't obsessing about the death penalty. (nt)

[Runningdawg]

23. Or person hood bills

That make Pences stance on women's health care, abortions, miscarriages and punishment look reasonable.

[Buzz Clik]

9. Awesome. "Deep well waste injection has NOTHING to do with earthquakes." Great choice for Interior.

[OKNancy]

12. Falin will fit right in with Trump. She is a creep like him

and kind of stupid.

[Cha]

13. ..

that's what I remembered.

[leftofcool]

24. And she hates Indians so that works well for both of them.

[Sunlei]

27. much worse than just a creep, an evil person.

[FSogol]

16. Rename it the Dept of Fracking. They're going to sell off/give away our national resources

for pennies on the dollar.

[Tess49]

18. She has been a horrible governor. I can't wait to see her leave. I do hate to see her involved

with anything on a national level. She is dumb as a stump.

[madokie]

22. Mattress mary

those of us in the know call her.

[Sunlei]

25. Dark Queen of horse slaughter & hater of a clean environment to 'manage' Americans public lands.

She's trump/republican material for sure.

[WhiteTara]

26. Lucky Oklahoma. Tragic rest of us.

[vkkv]

29. "Fallin signed a bill last year that would prevent Oklahoma cites from enacting bans on drilling."

This is an act of TYRANNY.





Where is the "torch and pitchfork" emoticon

[turbinetree]

31. Maybe she can get a plastered foot just like James Watts got

because, hold on the National Parks you are, now, screwed and other public lands
We don't need any stinking clean water or skies

[BumRushDaShow]

32. Did she tell him about how much more OK

shakes, rattles, and rolls since she took office?


Fig. 4: Oklahoma earthquakes (red) and disposal wells (black)

http://www.magma.geos.vt.edu/vtso/newsite/induced_quakes/induced_quakes.html

[not fooled]

34. She'll have the perfect solution, Drumpf-style

Defund the USGS or whoever monitors quake activity. Stop politicized science!!

[BumRushDaShow]

35. If she manages to get confirmed

that is probably what she would do since USGS is under Interior. There would be no need to "monitor" because "it is what it is", so why bother to track it??

[Thor_MN]

33. Well, Oklahoma IS in the interior of the country, so she must be qualified...

in the same way that Carson is qualified for HUD Secretary, because the U stands for Urban.

[kebob]

37. Poor Sarah