he was getting a condo at below market rate. they cooked this thing up to pretend they were only renting him his bedroom. now we know his daughter stayed in the condo, as well. and you know, it s not bad enough that that looks sleazy, mr. pruitt spent $40,000 of our taxpayer dollars to fly first class to morocco to support the export of natural gas which he has nothing to do with it but the husband of the lobbyist who owns the condo is a lobbyist for the largest gas terminal exporter in the united states. the only one at the time he went there. so the whole thing stinks. and more importantly i think pruitt has done a horrible job protecting the environment and protecting public health. the issue i had focused on was his decision not to ban over the recommendation of his staff a very dangerous agricultural chemical that causes brain
the swampiest is pruitt who now leads the epa, the agency he sued 14 times when he was oklahoma attorney general and who is now on the verge of rolling back rules requiring cars to be cleaner and more efficient. pruitt is supposed to fly coach when he conducts government business but he s taken dozens of domestic and overseas flights supposedly for security reasons though the threat turned out to be passengers shouting at him what he s doing to the environment. that s the beginning. the epa spent nearly $43,000 to install a soundproof phone booth in his office and pruitt somehow managed to go through more than $120,000 in public funds last summer for a single solitary trip to italy. now, that cost is due in part to the 24-hour roughly 30-person, you heard me right, 30-person security detail pruitt insists