Scott Pruitt Spent $10,200 for a one year lease of a car with bullet-resistant seat covers

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Anonymous wrote:
Secondly, leather seats are more durable and easier to clean than cloth, which makes sense in a motorpool / fleet vehicle, where there's more opportunity for spills and stains, as well as constant use.

Cloth seats would likely need to be replaced before the end of service life of the vehicle itself, and that would be more expensive than leather. So leather is actually the cheaper way to go in the long run.

That assumes both ownership and keeping the vehicle through it's service life. If, however, one is both leasing it and replacing it well before the end of it's service life it's an ostentatious extravagence and profligate.

Everyone here was (rightfully) up in arms when the DC council member did this. It shouldn't make a difference which political party this guy belongs to (but for some people and some reason it does). This sort of behavior is disgusting (is the type of thing that happens in kleptocracies) and reveals a lack of concern for the public part of service.

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Pruitt flies first class but wants to get a used hotel mattress to sleep on at home. Eeeeeeeeeeeew.

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Anonymous wrote:Pruitt strikes me as a high-functioning paranoid schizophrenic.

Is the security because he is actually afraid, or does he just want to look important? I saw a story that said he wanted the bullet-proof SUV because other cabinet secretaries had them. Isn't EPA just as important as State, Justice or Treasury? /s

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I can’t get over the used hotel mattress. Disgusting! Getting a mattress out of a dumpster would only be marginally worse. I’d rather sleep on the floor. This guy is messed up. For this and other reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t get over the used hotel mattress. Disgusting! Getting a mattress out of a dumpster would only be marginally worse. I’d rather sleep on the floor. This guy is messed up. For this and other reasons.

Seriously. What is his deal??? Other than being a weirdo grifter.

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He sounds like a pathological cheapskate. Probably a neuroses.

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He spends $1500 on pens but then looks for a used mattress? WTF.

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I can't help wondering if the mattress was used in a pee party.

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Anonymous wrote:He spends $1500 on pens but then looks for a used mattress? WTF.

He has money problems. And he's a grifter. Bad combination.

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Anonymous wrote:He spends $1500 on pens but then looks for a used mattress? WTF.

He has money problems. And he's a grifter. Bad combination.

In any normal administration, he would have been fired by now for incompetence/corruption/misuse of public resources. But in the Trump cabinet, he's just an average grifter.

Hupp also told the committee that she used Pruitt's personal credit card to purchase plane tickets for his family vacation to the Rose Bowl and Disneyland over the winter holiday, but said she did that on her own time during her holiday vacation.
EPA watchdog expects to complete Pruitt travel review this summer
EPA watchdog expects to complete Pruitt travel review this summer
"He just sent me the flight details and asked me to book for him," she told the committee, adding, "I used my work email to share details with the security team."
That trip has come under scrutiny since Pruitt used his 24/7 security team to accompany him at an unknown cost to the EPA.
Hupp is one of several employees in Pruitt's inner circle who came with him from Oklahoma and is one of the women who received the controversial pay raise that Pruitt had to rescind after denying he knew the details.
Hupp had been hired with a $66,500 salary, which skyrocketed to $114,600 before it was rescinded.
Hupp said she was not paid for her non-EPA errands for Pruitt.
Pruitt has previously defended Hupp's involvement in the apartment search, citing friendship and the unpaid nature of her work, but ethics experts have raised issues with her doing the search, whether she was on the government clock, volunteering for Pruitt, or paid separately by Pruitt.
"It's my understanding that all activity there was on personal time," Pruitt said at a mid-May Senate hearing. "And the individual that you're referring to is a longtime friend of my wife and myself."

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Anonymous wrote:He spends $1500 on pens but then looks for a used mattress? WTF.

The $1500 is taxpayer money, he would presumably be buying the used hotel mattress with his own money
“In grift we trust” must be the admin’s motto