You read that right: the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, could’ve been avoided if employees at the EPA hadn’t been watching porn on agency computers, according to Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar (R-4):
“If EPA employees would have been doing their jobs instead of watching porn, they might have reported sooner that the water in Flint, Michigan was poisoned,” Gosar stated, adding, “This lawlessness will continue until someone is held accountable and punished.”
The lead in Flint’s water had nothing to do with the decisions made by the emergency manager, who was accountable only to Gov. Rick Snyder. No, it was the fault of one dude watching T&A!
See, a regular audit of 15,000 EPA employees turned up 19 cases of alleged employee misconduct, including one person (one!) who downloaded and watched porn at work (the employee later resigned). Heck, one only wishes most federal agencies had a record like that: 19 misdeeds out of 15,000 staffers, and the problem cases appear to be low-level workers. If only the US House and Senate were as trustworthy. Or worked half as hard.
Gosar’s had a bug up his behind for years when it comes to environmental agencies, whether it’s the EPA, BLM, Forest Service or any other group that wants to manage and protect vulnerable landscapes, rather than turn them over to mining companies and other devourers, i.e. Gosar’s donor base.
Remember, he’s the “proud Catholic” who boycotted the Pope’s speech to Congress in September because Francis dared to talk about climate change as a real thing. He’s also the Arizona congressman who carpooled to Cliven Bundy’s ranch in 2014 with a handful of extremist legislators to protest the BLM’s treatment of the criminal coot. He’s got time for lawbreakers, just not the Pope.
So Gosar trots out those 19 offenses to slander every single staffer at the EPA, including Director Gina McCarthy, who he wants to impeach:
[Gosar] charged that they are a “collection of porn addicts, office thieves and drunk drivers… not fit to run for dogcatcher much less manage a federal agency.”
In Paul Gosar’s alleged mind, it’s not just one employee watching porn, it’s a “collection of porn addicts.” Look in the mirror, congressman: It’s hard to think of a collection of numbskulls who are more addicted to obscene policies than your own party.