Hat tip to Propublica.
From WyoFile:
The elite among Wyoming’s legal and engineering professions, including several governors (past and present), have worked for energy industry clients. As a result, presidential administrations seeking an appointee sympathetic to the energy industry can find a plethora of candidates in Wyoming.
The Wyoming connection was especially evident from 2000 to 2008, during the two administrations of President George W. Bush and his vice president, Wyoming native Dick Cheney. A former chief executive of Halliburton, Cheney took an early and very active interest in energy policy and placed several Wyoming political friends in key positions in the Department of Interior.
Cheney drew on his Wyoming ties to help fill the Interior Department’s top spots:
Cheney then chose Thomas Sansonetti, a prominent Cheyenne lawyer and GOP activist, to head the team choosing top personnel for the Department of Interior, which oversees Minerals Management Service.
And for the better part of this decade—from 2002 to 2008—the directors of the Minerals Management Service were former Wyoming GOP legislators, Rejane “Johnnie” Burton and Randall Luthi, according to WyoFile.
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