Frustrated Governors Still Waiting For Drilling Meeting With Trump DOI

"They are bridesmaids, not brides. They could use a hug, or at least a handshake.

Governors of states along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts desperately want the Trump administration to whisper the same magic words to them that it whispered to Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), who learned from Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke that the Sunshine State was being dropped from the president’s proposal to open 90 percent of the outer continental shelf to oil drilling.

But they’re still waiting, Republicans and Democrats alike. More than two weeks after Zinke announced the plan, then met with Scott in Tallahassee and gifted him with a prized exemption four days later, other governors opposed to drilling have yet to get a similar face-to-face audience with the secretary."

Darryl Fears reports for the Washington Post January 19, 2018.