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Every day this turns more and more into a Dear Leader Republican Party, where any criticism of such means your career in government could be over. It must explain why this effusive praise of Trump is always on the lips of those around him whenever a microphone is near.
Of course she worked for an oil and gas trade group.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management abruptly withdrew her nomination Thursday morning, just as her confirmation hearing was about to begin.
Kathleen Sgamma, who heads a Denver-based oil and gas industry trade group called the Western Energy Alliance, has “withdrawn from consideration,” Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Mike Lee (R-Utah) said at the outset of the hearing.
The reason for Sgamma’s decision was unclear. But it comes after the investigative group Documented on Tuesday released a 2021 letter in which Sgamma wrote that she was “disgusted” by Trump “spreading misinformation” about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
“It was an honor to be nominated by President Trump as Director of the Bureau of Land Management, but unfortunately at this time I need to withdraw my nomination,” Sgamma said in a statement shared by a Lee spokesman. “I will continue to support President Trump and fight for his agenda to Unleash American Energy in the private sector.”
The Bureau of Land Management oversees roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass. Sgamma, an MIT graduate who previously worked in consulting, has advocated for the agency to prioritize oil and gas drilling, hard rock mining and livestock grazing on public lands nationwide.
In the letter obtained by Documented, which was sent to Western Energy Alliance members on Jan. 7, 2021, Sgamma wrote that she was surprised and horrified by the events at the Capitol the day before.
“The events yesterday at the Capitol were so shocking that our policy engagement with and PAC support for the Trump Administration compels me to speak up,” she wrote. “I am disgusted by the violence witnessed yesterday and President Trump’s role in spreading misinformation that incited it.”
WaPo
Of course she worked for an oil and gas trade group.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management abruptly withdrew her nomination Thursday morning, just as her confirmation hearing was about to begin.
Kathleen Sgamma, who heads a Denver-based oil and gas industry trade group called the Western Energy Alliance, has “withdrawn from consideration,” Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Mike Lee (R-Utah) said at the outset of the hearing.
The reason for Sgamma’s decision was unclear. But it comes after the investigative group Documented on Tuesday released a 2021 letter in which Sgamma wrote that she was “disgusted” by Trump “spreading misinformation” about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
“It was an honor to be nominated by President Trump as Director of the Bureau of Land Management, but unfortunately at this time I need to withdraw my nomination,” Sgamma said in a statement shared by a Lee spokesman. “I will continue to support President Trump and fight for his agenda to Unleash American Energy in the private sector.”
The Bureau of Land Management oversees roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass. Sgamma, an MIT graduate who previously worked in consulting, has advocated for the agency to prioritize oil and gas drilling, hard rock mining and livestock grazing on public lands nationwide.
In the letter obtained by Documented, which was sent to Western Energy Alliance members on Jan. 7, 2021, Sgamma wrote that she was surprised and horrified by the events at the Capitol the day before.
“The events yesterday at the Capitol were so shocking that our policy engagement with and PAC support for the Trump Administration compels me to speak up,” she wrote. “I am disgusted by the violence witnessed yesterday and President Trump’s role in spreading misinformation that incited it.”
WaPo
