No one seems to want to run Trump's EPA in California

[n2doc]

Perhaps it is unsurprising that the White House still hasn't filled this job: San Francisco is not an inviting place for the Make America Great Again administration.

But the administration's effort to fill one of its most important environmental jobs — chief of the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters for California and the rest of the Pacific Southwest — keeps going sideways.

On Tuesday, an oil and gas lobbyist from New Mexico who, according to several people inside the Trump administration, was poised to fill the post told The Times it was all a big mistake. He'd be staying put in New Mexico.

"I am not leaving my current role as Executive Director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association for any position at EPA or elsewhere within the federal government," said an email from Ryan Flynn.

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-epa-california-20180123-story.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. More evidence that no one wants to work for this administration...nt

[n2doc]

2. Unless they can enrich themselves, like the boss n/t

[Weed Man]

3. I'll run it

As long as I go home every night to Denver, followed by an helicopter landing in front of my home after 15 minutes of touchdown at Trump's expense.

At the job, I'll do exactly the opposite of what the EPA wants.

[justhanginon]

4. That only works if your name is Ryan Zinke and you are the secretary of the interior.

It also helps if you're an entitled ahole who doesn't mind spending taxpayers dollars on free trips for you and your family. Another deplorable cabinet pick.

[Weed Man]

5. Agreed. But I decided to act like an asshole for this job

But I'm incredibly pleasant at the office at the EPA - everyone loves me, but it comes with consequences on the WH's part.

[justhanginon]

6. The difference is you are acting. I am afraid Zinke is the real thing,

a born and bred ahole.