Another Pruitt cock up
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From the same party that is trying to set fire to the safety net because lazy moochers just need to stop wasting their money on cell phones and work three jobs and sell some organs they’re not using, if that’s what it takes to make ends meet! comes another exciting installment in the life of the Grifter-in-Chief’s chief grifter.
No, not that one. I’m talking about Scott Pruitt.
This time.
Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his executive scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chairman and president of the fast food company Chick-fil-A, with an unusual request: Would Cathy meet with Pruitt to discuss “a potential business opportunity”?
Was the business opportunity:
- An attempt to get his wife a job?
- A chance to purchase the right to dump fryer grease into local storm drains and streams?
- A special offer on a used mattress from the tRump hotel in D.C.?
I bet you had a hard time choosing between A and B.
“The subject of that phone call was an expression of interest in his wife becoming a Chick-fil-A franchisee,” company representative Carrie Kurlander told The Washington Post via email.
Marlyn Pruitt never opened a restaurant. “Administrator Pruitt’s wife started, but did not complete, the Chick-fil-A franchisee application,” Kurlander said.
This in not a surprise. Not only would she have to go through the full process like some commoner, she’d have to pay the $10,000 initial financial fee. The Pruitts need money, they can’t be giving it to other people. Don’t people know who they are? The nerve.
Multiple current and former EPA aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said Pruitt told them he was eager for his wife to start receiving a salary. Two said Pruitt was frustrated in part by the high cost of maintaining homes in both Washington and Oklahoma.
You can go home any fucking time you want, Scott.
The Pruitts’ focus on augmenting their household income appears to have come after the administrator moved to Washington and began paying for two full-time residences. Pruitt attracted widespread criticism for renting a $50-a-night condo from a Washington lobbyist in the early months of his tenure. Since then, his housing costs appear to have increased substantially.
That would be the $50-a-night condo that the owners eventually had to lock him out of because he wouldn’t leave.
According to public records, Pruitt and his wife hold an $850,000 mortgage on their home in an upscale Tulsa neighborhood, requiring monthly payments of approximately $5,500 — including $17,793 in property taxes the couple paid last year. The mortgage has an adjustable rate, records show, so those payments eventually could rise.
In addition, the Pruitts lease an apartment in a modern development on Capitol Hill where one-bedroom units start at around $3,000 per month.
As EPA head, Pruitt currently makes $189,600 a year, according to federal records.. In a federal financial form filed after he was nominated to lead the EPA, Pruitt listed his only income as his attorney general’s salary, about $133,000 per year.
Under the entry for spouse’s income and retirement accounts, he wrote, “None.”
