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Draining the swamp
http://us14.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3a2a46a0ef67412eaa5d55987&id=40d901e1d3&e=
"President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Elaine Chao to serve as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.......... “The American people can rest assured that as Secretary of Transportation she will demonstrate the same skill, energy, and commitment to the concerns of ordinary Americans that were the hallmarks of her tenure at the Labor Department. The SBA calls on Congress to quickly confirm Elaine L. Chao as Secretary of Transportation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
"... 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009........ married to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
...After analyzing 70,000 closed case files from 2005 to 2007, the Government Accountability Office reported that the Department's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) inadequately investigated complaints from low- and minimum-wage workers alleging that employers failed to pay the federal minimum wage, required overtime, and failed to issue a last paycheck.[26]
Chao's tenure as Labor Secretary saw two mine disasters for which she was criticized. Twelve miners were killed in the Sago Mine disaster on January 2, 2006, and three rescue workers died in the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster on August 6, 2007. Before the mines collapsed, Chao had cut more than a hundred coal mine safety inspections.[27] According to the Christian Science Monitor, "Nearly half of the 208 safety citations levied in 2005 against the Sago coal mine where 12 men died this week were 'serious and substantial.'"[28] On December 10, 2008, Chao announced that the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) had, in the first year of the agency's 100 Percent Plan, achieved its goal of completing every mandated regular inspection for the year, a first in the agency's 31-year history.[29]
A 2008 report by the department's inspector general found that despite implementation of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, mine safety regulators did not conduct federally required inspections at more than 14% of the country's 731 underground coal mines, and that the number of worker deaths in mining accidents more than doubled to 47.[30] A 2009 internal audit appraising an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiative focusing on problematic workplaces revealed that employees had failed to gather needed data, conducted uneven inspections and enforcement, and failed to discern repeat fatalities because records misspelled the companies' names or failed to notice when two subsidiaries with the same owner were involved.[31] However, OSHA statistics for 2007 and 2008 revealed that overall workplace fatality rates and workplace injury and illness rates were "both at all-time lows."[32][33]
A 2008 Government Accountability Office report noted that the Labor Department gave Congress inaccurate numbers that understated the expense of contracting out its employees' work to private firms during Chao's tenure.[34][35]
A report by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, under the Chairmanship of Henry A. Waxman (D–Calif.), alleged that Chao and other White House officials campaigned for Republican candidates at taxpayer expense.[36] The report described this as a violation of the Hatch Act of 1939, which restricts the use of public funds for partisan gain,[37] but no action was taken by any entity with responsibility for enforcing the Hatch Act.
[See footnotes 26 through 37 in the provided link.]
"President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Elaine Chao to serve as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.......... “The American people can rest assured that as Secretary of Transportation she will demonstrate the same skill, energy, and commitment to the concerns of ordinary Americans that were the hallmarks of her tenure at the Labor Department. The SBA calls on Congress to quickly confirm Elaine L. Chao as Secretary of Transportation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
"... 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009........ married to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
...After analyzing 70,000 closed case files from 2005 to 2007, the Government Accountability Office reported that the Department's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) inadequately investigated complaints from low- and minimum-wage workers alleging that employers failed to pay the federal minimum wage, required overtime, and failed to issue a last paycheck.[26]
Chao's tenure as Labor Secretary saw two mine disasters for which she was criticized. Twelve miners were killed in the Sago Mine disaster on January 2, 2006, and three rescue workers died in the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster on August 6, 2007. Before the mines collapsed, Chao had cut more than a hundred coal mine safety inspections.[27] According to the Christian Science Monitor, "Nearly half of the 208 safety citations levied in 2005 against the Sago coal mine where 12 men died this week were 'serious and substantial.'"[28] On December 10, 2008, Chao announced that the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) had, in the first year of the agency's 100 Percent Plan, achieved its goal of completing every mandated regular inspection for the year, a first in the agency's 31-year history.[29]
A 2008 report by the department's inspector general found that despite implementation of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, mine safety regulators did not conduct federally required inspections at more than 14% of the country's 731 underground coal mines, and that the number of worker deaths in mining accidents more than doubled to 47.[30] A 2009 internal audit appraising an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiative focusing on problematic workplaces revealed that employees had failed to gather needed data, conducted uneven inspections and enforcement, and failed to discern repeat fatalities because records misspelled the companies' names or failed to notice when two subsidiaries with the same owner were involved.[31] However, OSHA statistics for 2007 and 2008 revealed that overall workplace fatality rates and workplace injury and illness rates were "both at all-time lows."[32][33]
A 2008 Government Accountability Office report noted that the Labor Department gave Congress inaccurate numbers that understated the expense of contracting out its employees' work to private firms during Chao's tenure.[34][35]
A report by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, under the Chairmanship of Henry A. Waxman (D–Calif.), alleged that Chao and other White House officials campaigned for Republican candidates at taxpayer expense.[36] The report described this as a violation of the Hatch Act of 1939, which restricts the use of public funds for partisan gain,[37] but no action was taken by any entity with responsibility for enforcing the Hatch Act.
[See footnotes 26 through 37 in the provided link.]
http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/Oklahoma-Governor-Trumps-Pick-to-Lead-Interior.html
"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.
Fallin is a staunch critic of the Obama administration's climate change regulations for power plants. She signed an executive order last year saying that her state will not comply with the rules."
Dept. of Interior oversees the National Park Service. I hear they've got LOTS of land that can be used for drilling and waste disposal. Enjoy your next vacation destination. I hear it's going to look a lot like Oklahoma.
"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.
Fallin is a staunch critic of the Obama administration's climate change regulations for power plants. She signed an executive order last year saying that her state will not comply with the rules."
Dept. of Interior oversees the National Park Service. I hear they've got LOTS of land that can be used for drilling and waste disposal. Enjoy your next vacation destination. I hear it's going to look a lot like Oklahoma.
http://usuncut.com/politics/trump-goldman-steven-mnuchin/
"Steven Mnuchin — a 17-year veteran from Goldman Sachs — was just appointed Secretary of the Treasury. That shouldn’t sit well for working people.
President-elect Donald Trump continues to betray the populist, drain-the-swamp rhetoric that propelled him into office with each new cabinet appointment. Whoever runs the U.S. Department of the Treasury arguably has more sway over the United States — and even the global economy — than even the president himself. As Mnuchin’s cabinet appointment appears to be on track for an official announcement Wednesday, his record should be closely examined, particularly in comparison to the populist veneer Trump constructed for himself during the course of his presidential campaign.
In a 2-minute campaign ad released just before the election, Trump’s voice is heard blasting “the political establishment,” as images of stern-faced, blue-collar workers are shown alongside the faces of public figures like Hillary Clinton, and more notably, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Shortly after the 1-minute mark of the ad, Blankfein is shown giving a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative, as Trump blasts the “handful of large corporations” benefiting from the largesse of the federal government.
Mnuchin is the epitome of Wall Street insider, having been raised as the son of a Goldman Sachs partner and working for the company between 1985 and 2002. Even in spite of Wall Street’s bad reputation with blue-collar America following the global financial crash of 2008, Mnuchin proudly embraces his colleagues in the financial sector.
“I wouldn’t in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street,” Mnuchin told the New York Times. “I have very good friends on Wall Street.”
As a banker, Mnuchin’s record shows he has a rather crass attitude towards salt-of-the-earth Americans, having presided over banks that aggressively foreclosed on homeowners in the wake of the financial crisis and was caught discriminating against black and latino mortgage applicants. A lawsuit filed by two California housing advocacy groups named CIT Group, the company that recently bought Mnuchin’s OneWest bank, in which Mnuchin himself owns $100 million in stock, according to the Washington Post.
“The bank has no significant branch presence in communities of color,” stated Kevin Stein, who is the deputy director of the California Reinvestment Coalition. “Its home loans to borrowers and communities of color are low in absolute terms, low compared to its peer banks, and low when compared to what one would expect.”
When Mnuchin ran OneWest bank, he oversaw the foreclosure of 36,000 homeowners. One of those homeowners was Leslie Parks, who, in 2009, returned to her Minneapolis home in the midst of a blizzard to find that her locks had been changed in her absence. Stein referred to OneWest Bank as a “foreclosure machine.”
Mnuchin also made off with a $3.2 million windfall he secured as a result of Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme, which defrauded investors out of billions. Financial enforcers allowed Mnuchin to keep his ill-gotten gains, as he and his brother were able to pull out of the Ponzi scheme before it fell apart. Lawsuits by investors defrauded by Madoff to recoup that money were unsuccessful due to statute of limitation loopholes..."
"Steven Mnuchin — a 17-year veteran from Goldman Sachs — was just appointed Secretary of the Treasury. That shouldn’t sit well for working people.
President-elect Donald Trump continues to betray the populist, drain-the-swamp rhetoric that propelled him into office with each new cabinet appointment. Whoever runs the U.S. Department of the Treasury arguably has more sway over the United States — and even the global economy — than even the president himself. As Mnuchin’s cabinet appointment appears to be on track for an official announcement Wednesday, his record should be closely examined, particularly in comparison to the populist veneer Trump constructed for himself during the course of his presidential campaign.
In a 2-minute campaign ad released just before the election, Trump’s voice is heard blasting “the political establishment,” as images of stern-faced, blue-collar workers are shown alongside the faces of public figures like Hillary Clinton, and more notably, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Shortly after the 1-minute mark of the ad, Blankfein is shown giving a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative, as Trump blasts the “handful of large corporations” benefiting from the largesse of the federal government.
Mnuchin is the epitome of Wall Street insider, having been raised as the son of a Goldman Sachs partner and working for the company between 1985 and 2002. Even in spite of Wall Street’s bad reputation with blue-collar America following the global financial crash of 2008, Mnuchin proudly embraces his colleagues in the financial sector.
“I wouldn’t in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street,” Mnuchin told the New York Times. “I have very good friends on Wall Street.”
As a banker, Mnuchin’s record shows he has a rather crass attitude towards salt-of-the-earth Americans, having presided over banks that aggressively foreclosed on homeowners in the wake of the financial crisis and was caught discriminating against black and latino mortgage applicants. A lawsuit filed by two California housing advocacy groups named CIT Group, the company that recently bought Mnuchin’s OneWest bank, in which Mnuchin himself owns $100 million in stock, according to the Washington Post.
“The bank has no significant branch presence in communities of color,” stated Kevin Stein, who is the deputy director of the California Reinvestment Coalition. “Its home loans to borrowers and communities of color are low in absolute terms, low compared to its peer banks, and low when compared to what one would expect.”
When Mnuchin ran OneWest bank, he oversaw the foreclosure of 36,000 homeowners. One of those homeowners was Leslie Parks, who, in 2009, returned to her Minneapolis home in the midst of a blizzard to find that her locks had been changed in her absence. Stein referred to OneWest Bank as a “foreclosure machine.”
Mnuchin also made off with a $3.2 million windfall he secured as a result of Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme, which defrauded investors out of billions. Financial enforcers allowed Mnuchin to keep his ill-gotten gains, as he and his brother were able to pull out of the Ponzi scheme before it fell apart. Lawsuits by investors defrauded by Madoff to recoup that money were unsuccessful due to statute of limitation loopholes..."
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