Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency

[brooklynite]

Source: CBS News

Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic. Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use his vehicle's lights and sirens to get to his official appointment, but the lead agent in charge of his security detail advised him that sirens were to be used only in emergencies.

Less than two weeks later that agent was removed from Pruitt's detail, reassigned to a new job within the EPA.

Special Agent Eric Weese, a 16-year veteran of the EPA, was replaced by Pasquale "Nino" Perotta. Perrotta now leads Pruitt's unprecedented 24-hour Protective Service Detail, which determined that Pruitt needed to fly in first class because of "specific, ongoing threats associated with the Administrator's air travel." The security detail, "shifted his class based on certain security protocols that require him to be near the front of the plane," the EPA wrote in a letter last month.

Pruitt's lavish travel, which totals more than $182,000, according to the Environmental Integrity Project, has included first class domestic and international flights for him and his security detail, private charters and a military jet. Reports on his expensive travel arrangements began a torrent of negative headlines over the past several months that peaked over the last week with stories examining his housing arrangements and very generous raises for two of his staffers. The bad publicity has cast an ethical cloud over the EPA administrator that's put him in danger of being the next casualty in the Trump Cabinet.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-pruitt-asked-to-use-sirens-in-dc-traffic-and-was-told-no-for-non-emergency/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. It could be worse: he could have claimed that he could stand on the left on a Metrorail escalator.

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THAT would get him Twitter-fired.

[OregonBlue]

2. He thinks he's president.

[magicarpet]

14. Pruitt thinks more like he is royalty.....

.... this is the new vehicle he requisitioned for use to cart him around Washington D C. Nothing fancy or special.... just standard EPA carpool issue. With a splash of luxury Pruitt is accustomed.

https://goo.gl/images/nZtiMr

[Hekate]

28. Pruitt thinks he's a tin-pot dictator and the counter-revolutionaries are after him

[riversedge]

3. Pruitt is a man of self perceived entitlement.

[iluvtennis]

10. Indeed. Or as my grandma used to say "He thinks his sh#t doesn't stink". What a cretin.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Note: Pruitt rained down retribution against the agent.

Damaging the agent's career. That is worse abuse of power than wasting a few hundred thousand taxpayer dollars, which should be a firing offense as it is.

the lead agent in charge of his security detail advised him that sirens were to be used only in emergencies.

Less than two weeks later that agent was removed from Pruitt's detail, reassigned to a new job within the EPA.

[Glimmer of Hope]

5. Who does he think he is?

[calimary]

13. Probably royalty of some sort.

Or maybe future pResident? He's got a bigger sense of entitlement than I've seen demonstrated by all the crowned heads across the globe.

[SCantiGOP]

6. In the Obama administration

bullshit like this would get you fired.
Sure glad asshole has the "best people" in his cabinet.

[BigmanPigman]

7. The Fucking Moron chose to surround himself with people,

mainly men, who are more immoral and corrupt than even he is. He acts unhappy when he finds out they are corrupt but it is an act. Look at what he and his family have been doing for over 18 months with their "brand".

[LiberalArkie]

11. Just like shrub, Trump is only doing what his bosses tell him to do.

[BBG]

23. Chose? More like took what he could get

Let’s face it, the reality is the jackass has to settle for those who will work for him. And the applicant pool is quite limited especially of late.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. And this is how you pay me back for all my kind, unselfish, loving deeds, huh?

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. Scott Pruitt is everything commentors in this thread are saying, and probably more.

But as bad as he is, he's still nowhere near the top (or bottom, depending on POV) of my most-despised list. Not even close.

[Demovictory9]

24. agreed.

[Corgigal]

12. This guy sound like

he scared of the unwashed masses. His security, who kicks down front doors- twice. Private jets and anything to get away from us.

Wish I lived closer, would just stand around and say Boo! Watch him run.

[MontanaMama]

15. Jeezus H. Roosevelt Christ

Can this swindler be relieved of his duties yet? You've GOT to be kidding me.

[Hekate]

29. Didn't Red Don just say he's a great guy doing a great job? The clock is ticking. nt

[MontanaMama]

35. Oh yeah.

You’re right. Dead man walking!

[raven mad]

16. A great insight into the character (!!???LOL)

of a self-indulgent, whiny, spoiled BRAT. Who obviously did not spend near enough time standing in a corner as a kid.

😡😡😡

(picture foot stomping, breath-holding and shrieks for mommy temper tantrum above.)

No joke - I feel grateful that I don't know one single over-entitled, self indulgent sociopath like Pruitt. They grow us rather independent up here. You may find a few rich brats who are assholes (think the failin' Palin kkklan) but not many. They're fairly easy to weed out at 40 below. So, Scotty, come up to visit what you want to destroy. I'm sure we can find a nice sand bar in a pretty river where your party companions like to fish and eat. Anything. Kodiaks out-grizzly grizzlies!
🐾🐾🐻

[OneBro]

17. Perfect Republican poster boy for the next election cycle.

Pruitt is what people get when they vote republican.

[muntrv]

18. The only emergency is Pruitt being in office.

[calimary]

19. Pruitt the self-anointed Princeling.

[catbyte]

20. Oh.My.God. The whole goddamned administration is treating the US Treasury like it's their own

personal piggy bank, using their position to violate every ethics rule, and to scoff at every law there is. What a bunch of goddamned criminals. Is there even ONE of them who isn't crooked? They should start renovating Leavenworth in preparation for the Trump Wing.

[Runningdawg]

21. Oklahoma - we only send our finest.

[avebury]

22. Mary Fallin is probably whining amongst her family - why did Scott get taken to DC

and not me?! (Probably because she is well past Trump's expiration date.)

[CreekDog]

36. Oklahoma got first choice

[IronLionZion]

25. Doing your job correctly will be punished in Trump's America

which is built to benefit the few at the expense of everyone else. Yes, I know DC traffic sucks a bag of monkey balls but no one is above the law and Pruitt is not entitled to special treatment just because he feels entitled.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. American govt gone, taken over by Putin and his cronies. This should make people angry

Pruitt, trump, putin, all enemies of the human race.

[3catwoman3]

27. He can have all the sirens...

...he wants when he gets arrested for fraud and fiscal malfeasance.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. It turns out this is only one of 23 ethics problems Scott "Must Resign" Pruitt is facing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142030721

[Mc Mike]

31. He had places to go, payoffs to accept.

Time was of the essence.

[NCjack]

32. Scot is too valuable to be allowed to travel outside of Oklahoma. Within Oklahoma,

he should be restricted to traveling in an army tank -- with the hatch closed.

[sweetroxie]

33. What an entitled schmuck! nt

[longship]

34. May his limo get permanently trapped within DuPont Circle!!

In the inside lane! Forever and ever!!!

Justice and karma together.