Neil Gorsuchs mother once ran the EPA. It didnt go well. (WaPo)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney
February 1

Neil Gorsuch is the first member of his family chosen for a seat on the Supreme Court, but he isn’t the only Gorsuch nominated by a U.S. president to a key government post.

His mother, Anne Gorsuch, served as President Ronald Reagan’s first Environmental Protection Agency administrator and the first female leader in the agency’s history. But her short, tumultuous tenure was marked by sharp budget cuts, rifts with career EPA employees, a steep decline in cases filed against polluters and a scandal over the mismanagement of the Superfund cleanup program that ultimately led to her resignation in 1983.

Anne Gorsuch — like Reagan then and President Trump today — was a firm believer that the federal government was too big, too powerful and too eager to issue regulations that restricted businesses.

As a result, she slashed the EPA’s budget by nearly a quarter and, according to a Washington Post story at the time, boasted that she had reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half inch. She filled various departments at EPA with subordinates recruited from the very industries the agency was supposed to be regulating.
***
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/01/neil-gorsuchs-mother-once-ran-the-epa-it-was-a-disaster/




Normally, I would think that a politician's parentage should be off limits. In view of this recent post I thought this was worth a read.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick.

[JudyM]

2. He's her son? I remember how awful she was, another of Reagan's attacks on our country, even

though she was a woman.

[Ken Burch]

3. Christ, I remember her. She was a nightmare, and an example of misdirection.

She was so convincing as a comic-opera villainess that people focused solely on pushing to have her removed that we kind of forgot that Reagan was STILL president and could just put somebody else in that was as bad...in some ways, her replacement, Don Hodel, was even worse...he was just as extreme in her anti-enviro, pro-Earth-diddling views, but managed to sound sane and be quieter in the way he did things.

Should we start calling Neil "Spawn of Anne"?

[Skittles]

4. he's another nutcase trying to avenge a parent

like that fucking moron Dubya

[pfitz59]

5. she was a disaster

and a real biatch. no wonder he's a monster (and apparent misogynist)