MMS official apologizes for ‘drill, baby, drill’ cake

[depakid]

An official with the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service – the agency that regulates offshore drilling – is apologizing for allowing some ill-considered frosting into a meeting.

Newsweek and some other outlets obtained an email from John Goll, manager of MMS’s Alaska region, that Goll sent Thursday to MMS employees nationwide. It followed a New York Times story that revealed a cake with the worlds “Drill, Baby, Drill,” was served at recent meeting in the Alaska office.

Here’s the email:

From: Goll, John


To: MMS Employees Nationwide


Subject: Apology to MMS



As the manager in charge of the Alaska Region, I apologize to everyone in the Minerals Management Service with regard to the cake at a recent Alaska Region All Hands meeting, as reported in a New York Times article today. The cake had the words "Drill, Baby, Drill', plus other words which were meant to take light of the words. This was simply wrong to have. I failed in preventing this from happening in my office.



jg



John Goll


Regional Director, Alaska


U.S. Minerals Management Service

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar detailed plans this week to carve up the long-troubled MMS into three separate agencies. He said MMS – which sells offshore leases, collects royalties and regulates safety – suffers from conflicting missions.

The agency has for years been the subject of scathing reports by the Interior Department’s inspector general and congressional auditors. Criticism intensified further in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/99255-mms-official-apologizes-for-drill-baby-drill-cake-

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I'm curious what those other words were - if there were words to make light of the DBD phrase,

then maybe the cake isn't so bad. :-)

[kristopher]

5. It wasn't "make light of" it was "take light of"

I have no idea what that means, but I wouldn't give those bastards the benefit of the doubt on anything at this point.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. The man deserves an award for being such a monmental dumbass

Just imagine for moment if you will that a nuclear power disaster that will affect MILLIONS of people and will kill untold millions of living creatures was occuring in America. DURING the catastrophe a party is held by the governmental agency that has major role in regulating the safety of nuclear power facilities and a cake is served with the words "Irradiate, Baby, Irradiate".

In a world run by adults, Goss's superiors would publicly make the dumbass and anyone else in the office that had a hand in Cake-Gate spend the next six months in LA or AL washing the oil off of turtles and birds.

[izquierdista]

3. I'm cuious as to how and when he got the job

I would say somewhere in the 2001-2002 time frame, and his qualification was related to the number of Pioneers and Rangers he signed up for the 2000 Presidential campaign.

[JohnWxy]

4. he was appointed to an Interior Dept. Perfomance Review board in 2005 (Dec)

http://regulations.vlex.com/vid/senior-executive-performance-membership-22657839