Gale Norton Resigning--just heard cnn

[AlCzervik]

no link yet

[napi21]

1. Uh OH, Abramoff!!!! Betcha! n/t

[earthboundmisfit]

B-I-N-G-O!!!!!

I'll bet that is it.

[skypilot]

2. These people always resign several years too late.

They stick around just long enough to fuck everything up and then they want to "spend more time with the family".

[Maddy McCall]

3. I wonder if this has anything to do with the sale of national parklands...

and other properties owned by the DOI.

Heinous, heinous, heinous.

[blm]

4. Abramoff - no doubt.

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[AlCzervik]

8. no doubt at all, maybe she got the heads up she's in big trouble

i hope so.

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Is this the #1 for Friday's news dump?

*sigh*

[Dawgs]

6. She's in the middle, Abramoff's on the right.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/28/photo-abramoff-norton/

[motocicleta]

7. Let me guess

Next she'll be decrying the Republican attacks on the environment?

[Coexist]

9. Here is an article - they are popping up like crazy now:

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GALENORTON-03-10-06&cat=WW

Norton expected to resign as Interior secretary
By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
Scripps Howard News Service
March 10, 2006

WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Gale Norton was expected to announce Friday that she is resigning from President Bush's Cabinet, ending a five-year run that included frequent clashes with environmentalists and American Indian tribes.

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During her confirmation fight in early 2001, critics derided her as "James Watt in a skirt" - referring to the controversial Reagan Interior secretary who once worked with Norton at the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

[samplegirl]

10. Abramoff must singing

like a canary!

[samplegirl]

11. Scandal of the week.....

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