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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Nov 13, 2018, 05:43 PM Nov 2018

Zinke to visit California to address wildfires

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is making an impromptu stop in California this week to tour two of the sites ravaged by recent wildfires, the department announced Tuesday.

Zinke on Wednesday will visit Paradise, Calif., the site of the still-burning Camp Fire that has killed at least 42 people in the northern part of the state. The secretary will then visit a community devastated by the Woolsey Fire that has burned more than 100,000 acres spanning across Malibu, Thousand Oaks and Calabasas in Southern California. He also plans to meet with California Gov. Jerry Brown.

The Interior secretary canceled a previously planned official visit to Asia at the behest of the White House to address the ongoing California wildfire, an Interior spokesperson told The Hill.

Zinke's plans to visit the state comes days after President Trump tweeted Saturday that California's wildfires were caused by poor forest management and threatened to withhold emergency funding. The comments created a cascade of negative reactions from state and federal lawmakers, who in turn argued the fires were a result of increased drought caused by climate change.

“Managing all the forests everywhere we can does not stop climate change, and those who deny that definitely are contributing to the tragedies that we are witnessing and will continue to witness,” Brown said in remarks directed toward the president Sunday.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/416479-wh-sending-zinke-to-california-to-address-wildfires

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Zinke to visit California to address wildfires (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 OP
Why? No one wants to hear his blather. Solly Mack Nov 2018 #1
Don't expect Zinke to be more conciliatory or sympathetic. maxsolomon Nov 2018 #2
Stinky Zinke can go jump in a lake. bronxiteforever Nov 2018 #3
Whoopie Hekate Nov 2018 #4
CA to Mr Stinke, Fuck Off! BigmanPigman Nov 2018 #5
Thinks there is money to be made there. Sneederbunk Nov 2018 #6

maxsolomon

(32,977 posts)
2. Don't expect Zinke to be more conciliatory or sympathetic.
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 05:47 PM
Nov 2018

Trump's getting the "Forest Management" BS from Zinke.

Zinke will probably repeat the same lies, and the Sagebrush Rebellion types will jump for joy at the misery of the Hollywood Elites.

Paradise, which was IN a forest, will probably get a pass, as that's Trump Country.

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