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Topic: Outgoing EPA chief regrets lack of dialogue with rural America |
Outgoing EPA chief regrets lack of dialogue with rural America
The Hill [Washington DC], by Zack Colman
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/4/2013 5:57:08 PM
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| Departing Departing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson said she wished she had communicated better during her tenure with rural regions that felt victimized by the agency’s pollution rules. “If I were starting again, I would from day one make a much stronger effort to do personal outreach in rural America," Jackson said in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters published Monday. Clashes with rural GOP lawmakers characterized much of Jackson’s time in Obama administration, but Jackson has lamented what she says are inaccurate claims about the scope of EPA’s agenda.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 2/4/2013 6:03:34 PM (No. 9158424)
Easy to say now, I call fertilizer.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 2/4/2013 6:03:54 PM (No. 9158426)
She needed more time to talk down to them and lecture those racist white people!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
coldoc, 2/4/2013 6:06:21 PM (No. 9158432)
With what she had to say, who would want to listen.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo, 2/4/2013 6:07:15 PM (No. 9158436)
Oh come now Ms. Jackson....much like your boss...YOUR actions speak much louder and clearer than your lying words ever could.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 2/4/2013 6:08:46 PM (No. 9158444)
As the turn worms!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 2/4/2013 6:11:33 PM (No. 9158451)
Lisa and others in the administration apparently violated the presidential records act, by using fake names and email accounts. That rises to the level of conspiracy, and I would hope the next president prosecutes her. But President Hologram will likely issue a preemptive pardon for her and her co-conspirators.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 2/4/2013 6:13:03 PM (No. 9158456)
BS. What we actually had was an incompetent radical woman picked for her ideology and no other qualifications. It´s a wonder this country is still in one piece. In may not be in four more years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/4/2013 6:15:29 PM (No. 9158459)
She must think a backlash is possible. Wonder what the White House is hearing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lavalette, 2/4/2013 6:19:42 PM (No. 9158468)
"I wish I had been more careful to form trusting relations with those slack-jawed, global warming denying, enemies of science and polluters of the environment."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 2/4/2013 6:23:10 PM (No. 9158478)
Yea, Lisa, you just wanted to lecture and talk down to the REAL Americans. May your future in Marxism be laced with your life under the BUS!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
schnapps, 2/4/2013 6:25:20 PM (No. 9158484)
Richard Windsor regrets... More likely Lisa just spent too much time trying to persuade Beyonce to sing a-cappela at the greenest Superbowl ever.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
CEP, 2/4/2013 6:29:32 PM (No. 9158489)
Imagine that she realizes that there is a rural America that has been ignored in the case of Obama he downright despises rural America.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
canuckchopper, 2/4/2013 6:30:29 PM (No. 9158491)
Never a thought that maybe the message was a complete steaming bowl of cr*p and nobody would believe it no matter how it was phrased.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 2/4/2013 6:33:08 PM (No. 9158495)
Perhaps we can someday assign her to a rural penitentiary...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 2/4/2013 6:42:10 PM (No. 9158507)
Country folk are a lot smarter than liberals. They understand the allowing the EPA to regulate mud puddles under the Clean Water Act is meant to regulate pesticides and fertilizers they use on their fields. They also understand that dust from plowing can be regulated as particulate. They often own the mineral rights that she has tried to make worthless by keeping our resources in the ground.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Raristotle, 2/4/2013 6:54:33 PM (No. 9158520)
Whenever Leftists use the term "dialogue", what they mean is that you are to be tied down with your eyes propped open, Clockwork Orange-style, and you are then forced to accept their wisdom.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 2/4/2013 6:56:21 PM (No. 9158527)
She should be having a long dialogue with prison inmates for all the illegal actions she did these last 4 years.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
krause, 2/4/2013 7:01:48 PM (No. 9158536)
Just about all of our problems come from ´urban´ areas.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 2/4/2013 7:22:07 PM (No. 9158559)
Every time she would open her mouth she would say something to make life harder for America´s farmers! No wonder they booed her at every turn! She is a Maoist idiot with a libtard agenda and does not give a hoot about America´s rural Americans. Good riddance and God save us from her replacement!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 2/4/2013 7:30:42 PM (No. 9158577)
#12, I´m going to fix that for you: at the greenest and darkest Superbowl ever.
Now children, sing with me ... Another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, Another one gone, Another one gone, Another one bites the dust. hehehehe
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 2/4/2013 7:33:28 PM (No. 9158580)
f I were starting again, I would from day one make a much stronger effort to do personal outreach in rural America,"
Yeah. And if a Bullfrog had wings he wouldn´t bust his butt everytime he jumped too.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 2/4/2013 7:40:22 PM (No. 9158595)
This is a woman who wished to subject ´rural landowners´ to bloody Federal oversight of the *rainwater* that fell on their land, and where it went after it hit the ground...
´Outgoing´ is by far the most welcome adjective to describe her.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Bur Oak, 2/4/2013 7:42:07 PM (No. 9158600)
Bunkum - Lisa Jackson and the EPA has no interest in communications. They only want to tell the non-eletes what they must do. The establishment of the EPA was the worst thing Richard Nixon ever did. The EPA serves only their master BHO. They intend to gain by regulation what they can´t by legislation.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly, 2/4/2013 8:01:54 PM (No. 9158624)
If she´s talking about the kind of dialogue she had with the coal industry, I´m sure rural America is relieved.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
nonsense, 2/4/2013 8:08:58 PM (No. 9158634)
Didn´t her alter ego, Richard Windsor, have any dealing with rural America?
Gee whiz, you´d think that killing coal would be enough of a victory to satisfy her ego.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
kanphil, 2/4/2013 9:08:19 PM (No. 9158698)
Face it, Lisa, you were a miserable failure at serving the country, and there ain´t no do overs.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 2/4/2013 9:49:10 PM (No. 9158753)
Yeah. The rural Americans knew you were an idiot when you tried to regulate dust on a farm. Plow up peanuts a couple of rounds, lady.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/5/2013 12:13:59 AM (No. 9158922)
Another whiner. You had your chance to do a decent job, but didn´t.
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