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Originally posted by boondock-saint
sorry for being dumb here
but what is MMS???
Originally posted by boondock-saint
sorry for being dumb here
but what is MMS???
[T]he Obama administration was fully aware from the outset of the need to correct the lapses at M[inerals] M[anagement] S[ervice] that led directly to the disaster in the Gulf. In fact, Obama specifically nominated Salazar – his "great" and "dear" friend – to force the department to "clean up its act." For too long, Obama declared, Interior has been "seen as an appendage of commercial interests" rather than serving the people. "That's going to change under Ken Salazar."
Salazar took over Interior in January 2009, vowing to restore the department's "respect for scientific integrity." He immediately traveled to MMS headquarters outside Denver and delivered a beat-down to staffers for their "blatant and criminal conflicts of interest and self-dealing" that had "set one of the worst examples of corruption and abuse in government."
Promising to "set the standard for reform," Salazar declared, "The American people will know the Minerals Management Service as a defender of the taxpayer. You are the ones who will make special interests play by the rules." Dressed in his trademark Stetson and bolo tie, Salazar boldly proclaimed, "There's a new sheriff in town."
Originally posted by Pellevoisin
My late husband would have offered the opinion that the USA MMS is the second-most corrupt element in the government of the United States. Actually, he called them 'back passage whores'. And in the area of energy business and energy politics he was very rarely in error.