McMorris Rodgers must have opened her mouth without a 3x5 card and they found out what we here in WA-05 have known for 12 looooooong years. The woman is dumber than a box of rocks.
The offer comes just days after multiple news outlets reported that No. 4 House Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) was the favorite to win the position. But multiple top Trump aides weren’t sold on the Washington Republican and encouraged Trump to broaden his search.
She, Zinke and Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) all interviewed for the job Monday.
According to Politico
Out of all the Republicans on the Hill, Zinke has one of the strongest track records on conservation and public land issues — and he's even voted against his own party at times. He voted against the GOP’s fiscal 2016 budget because it sold public lands, and even resigned as a delegate to the RNC this summer because the party platform included language calling for the sale of public lands.
Zinke has also opposed efforts by House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) to transfer land and other GOP measures to hand over millions of acres of public land from the U.S. Forest Service to the state.
He’s also partnered with Democrats on conservation issues: In October 2015 he was the only Republican to support a Democratic amendment to permanently authorize the so-called Land and Water Conservation Fund. He’s also received praise from conservation groups, including the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Teddy Roosevelt Conservancy Partnership, Friends of the East Rosebud and the Outdoor Industry Association.
But he is a staunch supporter of the big orange bastard and his wife is on the transition team, working on veterans issues according to that article. Zinke is a former Navy Seal commander.
Reuters seems just a bit more real world about this than Politico.
The League of Conservation Voters, which ranks lawmakers on their environmental record, gave Zinke an extremely low lifetime score of 3 percent.
Apparently he has been considering running against Sen Jon Tester in 2018. We will see if he accepts the offer. The expectation seems to be he will.
Another link and some more info at the Washington Post.
Whatever else one may say about him , I am sure he is smarter than our little apple-cheeked fool/tool. Gotta be.