Gale Norton,US Secretary of the Interior has resigned! I wonder if she has had trouble looking at herself in the mirror recently. Prehaps the rising heat of the Abramoff scandal threatens a full blown conflagration with fuel from the largest oil spill in the 29 year history of the Alaska North Slope Oil pipe line project at Prudhoe Bay.*
Excerpt from second article:
Gale Norton's intelligence is noticeable. In 1983, she was offered a post at Stanford University's Hoover Institution where she studied the possibilities of avoiding environmental laws and "permissions to pollute" - a new topic by then- which is an idea that can be found in the Clean Air Act proposed during the Bush's Admintration. In 1984, she became a member of the team who worked for the Department of Environment after James Watts' forced resignation under the ecologists' pressure.
See link for entire article:
Gale Norton Resigns as Secretary of the Interior
WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2006 (ENS) - After five years in office, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton announced today that she will leave the Cabinet at the end of March to rejoin the private sector.
In her letter of resignation to President George W. Bush, Secretary Norton wrote, "Now I feel it is time for me to leave this mountain you gave me to climb, catch my breath, then set my sights on new goals to achieve in the private sector. Hopefully, my husband and I will end up closer to the mountains we love in the West."
Norton, 51, is the first woman to serve as the Secretary of the Interior. She is the 48th Interior Secretary and has been in office longer than all but six of her predecessors. Norton was sworn in as Secretary on January 31, 2001. After winning re-election, President Bush asked Secretary Norton to continue serving in his Administration.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/...
Click on the link following for a very detailed history of Gale Norton. :
George W. Bush's ecologist
Gale Norton, Minister of Ideological Pollution
by Paul Labarique
Gale Norton has two faces: when she addresses voters, she is an ecologist lawyer and a pacifist in favor of the legalization of soft drugs and the elimination of CIA. But when she was appointed Bush's Minister of Environment, she only dealt with extreme right-wing associations, defended what she called "the industrialists' constitutional right to pollute" and sabotaged the Kyoto Protocol. She represented American multinational companies' capacity to express "value-freedom" and guaranteed their impunity.
17 September 2004
Gale Norton is an authentic product of the American political system which provokes a person's complete metamorphosis, a political system that changes people's convictions, reabsorbs that person and "generates" a new one. An example of this is 1971 pacifist John Kerry who would later approve the war against Iraq for "the country must be safe" by all possible means. Gale Norton was in charge of natural reserves during George W. Bush's neoconservative administration and was educated in a completely different tradition.
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At the beginning of the 70s, the young lady began to study law at the University of Denver where Condoleezza Rice studied too. During the Viet Nam war, she participated temporarily in several pacifists' demonstrations, just before joining the big extremely liberal ideologues' family. She joined the Libertarian Party (not a powerful political party in the U.S.) at the end of the 70s and went to Colorado to run the presidential campaign of the Libertarian Party candidate, Mister Ed Clarke, between 1979 and 1980. Clarke's program was opposed to that of Ronald Reagan and accused the "national security" institutions: he wanted the Department of Energy, the FBI and the CIA to be dismantled. The young lawyer wrote speeches for Mr. Clarke in which she demanded the legalization of marihuana and uncensored pornography. On foreign policy issues, Ed Clarke called for the return of every American soldier abroad [2].
Paul Labarique
http://www.voltairenet.org/...
Here is a look at the story of the blackened ice near Anchorage, Alaska:
http://www.choicechanges.com/...