Think about it: She's already had one promotion from EPA regional deputy director in Kansas City to the more important Chicago-based Great Lakes regional directorship, and can check all the important Pruitt-Trump boxes, especially the first and biggest:
Spoke glowingly for Trump
Is suitably anti-science.
Is suitably environment-be-damned, anti-regulation and pro-business.
Is suitably anti-labor.
Has treated public employees like dirt.
Like Trump, has managed businesses, including home building and a McDonalds.
Has enabled water pollution.
Has enabled air pollution.
Demonstrated a rare ability: to strategically and ideologically suck up to the boss while also dissembling, looking forward and also in the rear view mirrow - - back - - which no doubt hit all of Trump's buttons:
I am deeply grateful to Governor Walker for believing in my abilities when he named me to the post of DNR Secretary over 6 ½ years ago. We’ve demonstrated how we can have job creation and environmental protection. I’m excited and humbled at the opportunity to bring many of the reforms we’ve implemented in DNR to the national scene.
