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Neil's just following where his bitch mutha crook left off.
Please boost.
@GatekeepKen Factcheck: true as true can be. Neil Gorsuch's mother was evil (and hated federal agencies), and taught her son to feel the same way. Here are some highlights from Wikipedia: 🧵
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gorsuch_Burford
Anne Gorsuch Burford - Wikipedia

@msbellows @GatekeepKen Hoooooooly crap. I was a sophomore in HS and remember hearing that name on TV and in Johnny Carson’s monologues at the time, but I didn’t know she’s Gorsuch’s mother.
@GatekeepKen Gorsuch's mother headed the EPA under Reagan – and tried to gut it:
@GatekeepKen
And Gorsuch's mother was corrupt a.f., promising not to enforce the regulations her own agency was charged with enforcing, just because a polluter asked her to:

@GatekeepKen Gorsuch's mother was the first federal agency chief cited for contempt of Congress – and hoo boy, *such* contempt! EPA put roadblocks in the way of a Superfund cleanup in order to affect a political campaign; Ms. Gorsuch refused to produce relevant records to Congress; the stalemate was broken when it came out that "Reagan Administration officials... heard Gorsuch say... that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat.

"The White House then abandoned its court claim that the documents related to this incident could not be subpoenaed by Congress because they were covered by executive privilege and the EPA turned the documents over to Congress. Gorsuch immediately resigned her post...."

@GatekeepKen
"But @msbellows!" you exclaim fairmindedly. "Just because Neil Gorsuch's mother was a corrupt administrator who hated federal regulation and abused executive privilege to sandbag Congress and illegally withheld federal aid from citizens to hurt Democrats, doesn't mean her son's decisions to gut agencies and neuter Congress and create an imperial presidency are corrupt as well!"

Um... yeah, it does. In this case, it really, really does.

@GatekeepKen And I'm just gonna reup this part again to emphasize it: "Gorsuch sa[id]... that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown... a Democrat.

"The White House then abandoned its court claim that the documents related to this incident could not be subpoenaed by Congress because they were covered by executive privilege...." #FuckReagan

@msbellows
OMG...DIDNT KNOW THAT
Thanks MS
@GatekeepKen Hey, thank YOU for inspiring me to peek down that rabbit hole!
@msbellows
My pleasure, thanks for your help
@msbellows
Yep, of course it does and it's gone right over the media's heads.
@msbellows @GatekeepKen I'm sure it was more than "asked"...
@DrBonesMD @GatekeepKen I'm sure they didn't pay her until after she acted, which SCOTUS just ruled makes it not a bribe.
@msbellows @GatekeepKen “Gorsuch say at an August 4, 1982, luncheon that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat.[11]”
@msbellows @GatekeepKen
You have to wonder - if she hated federal agencies, why did she run one? Was she actually trying to take down the country?

@lolonurse @GatekeepKen Yes.

If someone offered you the job of NRA president, would you take it? I sure would. I'd accept the job, then run the organization into the ground.

That's why government-hating conservatives go into government: to destroy the government. (That, and to sell influence along the way.)

@msbellows @GatekeepKen
It's appalling. But yes, I see your point from "our side". Except our side is good, decent, thoughtful and correct. 😇
@msbellows @GatekeepKen
I know we are, but (just like Democrats in general) we tend to be nice, thoughtful, considerate, rational, and concerned about the health & vitality of the planet & its inhabitants. It's good to have money, sure- but not at the expense of the future.

@GatekeepKen

Irony: spending a lifetime destroying regulatory agencies that attempt to reduce harm caused by industry. Dies of cancer at 62.

@jchaven @GatekeepKen
Yes, ironic. Sometimes, the bitch that is life gets it perfectly right.
@lolonurse @jchaven @GatekeepKen How someone could hate their own planet so much......