There is a revolving door in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, between PennFuture and Democrat governors. Pat McDonnell, the former Secretary of the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), charged with overseeing shale drilling in the state, was a closet radical working against the shale industry in the Gov. Tom Wolf administration. How do we know? As soon as he left the DEP last year, McDonnell became president of the uber-left, anti-shale PennFuture organization (see Former PA DEP Sec. Pat McDonnell New CEO of Anti-Shale Group). McDonnell now routinely criticizes the shale industry in the state. With a new Democrat administration in Harrisburg (Josh Shapiro, Governor, and Rich Negrin, DEP Secretary), PennFuture is sending one of its own, Ezra Thrush (VP of Government Affairs and chief lobbyist), over to the DEP to become the new Policy Director at the agency. The politically incestuous door just keeps revolving…
There is a revolving door in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, between PennFuture and Democrat governors. Pat McDonnell, the former Secretary of the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), charged with overseeing shale drilling in the state, was a closet radical working against the shale industry in the Gov. Tom Wolf administration. How do we know? As soon as he left the DEP last year, McDonnell became president of the uber-left, anti-shale PennFuture organization (see 