Interior IG to scrutinize Zinke's beer-making plans

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Source: Politico






A development backed by Halliburton’s chairman includes a microbrewery similar to one the Interior secretary has long sought.

By BEN LEFEBVRE

08/02/2018 05:06 AM EDT



WHITEFISH, Mont. — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made no secret of his dream of opening a microbrewery in his hometown of Whitefish.

Now, the department’s inspector general will be asking whether he colluded to have the chairman of Halliburton, one of the leading companies with business before the department, build him one.

In Whitefish, brewers and city officials told POLITICO that Zinke has long sought to build a microbrewery of his own, a project that over six years led him to submit plans to the City Council, discuss the move with other business leaders and personally join in a review process to change local zoning laws to make them more hospitable to such a business.

Meanwhile, a planned development in Whitefish backed by David Lesar, the chairman of Halliburton — the nation’s largest oil services company, which would be one of the biggest winners in the Interior Department’s drive to roll back regulations — includes plans for just such a microbrewery.

The Interior Department IG's office announced in late July that it is investigating Zinke’s dealings with Lesar, a purview that ethics specialists say will include questions about the brewery. Ethics rules bar officials from using their official contacts to set up “nests” for their post-government lives, and the microbrewery was a focus of both the ethics watchdogs and the House Democrats who requested the investigation after POLITICO first reported on Zinke’s links to Lesar.............

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/02/zinke-interior-making-beer-montana-719358

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The Interior Department’s inspector general will be asking if Zinke colluded to have the chairman of Halliburton, one of the leading companies with business before the department, build the secretary the microbrewery he's long wanted

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1. Diebold...subsidiary of Halliburton

maker of rigged voting machines and bank ATM's....
You can get a receipt for a 5.00 withdraw...but not our most precious right, the vote.
(They JUST can't figure out how to make a voting machine that seems to do this....akin to putting a man on Mars it would seem.)

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2. Diebold builds the machines their customers want

Banks want ATMs that give receipts because no one will patronize a bank that doesn't give receipts with every transaction.

Republican voting officials want election machines that don't give receipts because they don't want people knowing how many votes they flipped.