DOE refuses Presidential transition request
The Department of Energy will not provide the names of staffers who worked on climate issues to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, a spokesman for the department told POLITICO Tuesday.
The Trump transition team submitted 74 questions to DOE last week, including two which asked for identities of staffers who worked on Obama administration climate policy efforts.
"We will be forthcoming with all publicly available information with the transition team. We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team," DOE spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder said in an email.
Burnham-Snyder said questions from Trump's team had "left many in our workforce unsettled."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/energy-department-staffers-names-list-232566
The Department of Energy will not provide the names of staffers who worked on climate issues to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, a spokesman for the department told POLITICO Tuesday.
The Trump transition team submitted 74 questions to DOE last week, including two which asked for identities of staffers who worked on Obama administration climate policy efforts.
"We will be forthcoming with all publicly available information with the transition team. We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team," DOE spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder said in an email.
Burnham-Snyder said questions from Trump's team had "left many in our workforce unsettled."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/energy-department-staffers-names-list-232566
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I want a 50 yard seat and some popcorn. I just love watching train crashes.
Resistance to Trump Imperial tyranny!
Fight the Power of Republican Party Evil!
Mr. Trump will clean house and like the above post, buckle up and get some popcorn.
Cannot wait, I think about watching the DOE Secretary in Iran with that idiot John Kerry and thinking what a political hack he is. Good riddance.
Moniz - Professor at MIT
Chu - Nobel Prize winner at Stanford
Perry - Couldn't remember that DOE was the department he wanted to eliminate. OOPS!
Then again - cluelessness is why Trump was elected president, so I guess it all fits together.
The left should read a whole lot more and write a whole lot less. That way they can appear to actually know something once in a while.
SHEESH.
And why not? What negative consequences have there been for these entrenched bureaucrats?
Perry"s not a scientist, but he's a smart enough guy with experience in governing. Depending on the support he gets from the White House and a single-party Congress, he may actually be able to effect actual change in the Forestall Building. And remember, he didn't say he wanted to get rid of the labs, he (almost) said he wants to get rid of DOE. I personally think that's unlikely, but I wouldn't put any money on the status quo. Lab leadership should be quietly working on establishing direct communication with Perry.
O'Leary's while a failure in running DOE, at least her resume and background made sense in appointing her Secretary of Energy:
O'Leary earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Rutgers School of Law. During the Carter Administration, O'Leary was appointed assistant administrator of the Federal Energy Administration (now part of DOE)... and on a side note was married to John O'Leary, the former Deputy Secretary of Energy.
Can leadership communicate with Perry? The "leadership" is so out of touch, I doubt they will be able to tune to the same wavelength. Perry's message to the leadership shouldn't be "here's how you can work with us", is should be "pack your bags, I'm finding your replacement. Good luck getting an equivalent $1m/yr job in the private sector!"
On a side note, that's how you know these VP and director people at the lab are worthless. There is no company that would pay them even 1/3 their salary in the private sector. Their only "skills" are kissing asses and nepotism.
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency.
“The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol,” Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said. “The person who sent it has been properly counseled.”
DoE better not pout, transition's telling them why.
Secretary Perry is coming to DC.
He's making his list, and he's checking it twice.
He gonna find out who's been naughty and who's been nice.
He sees you when you go to climate change meetings,
he knows when you selectively ignore polite requests.
He knows if you've been refusing to comply with questionnaires,
So, be helpful and honest, for goodness sake!