Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke accuses Democrat who wants him to resign of 'drunken and hostile behavior'

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke slammed the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee Friday, accusing Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., of using taxpayer money to cover up "drunken and hostile behavior." “It’s hard for him to think straight from the bottom of the bottle,” Zinke said in a statement posted to Twitter. “This is coming from a man who used nearly $50,000 in tax dollars as hush money to cover up his drunken and hostile behavior." Zinke appears to be referring to a 2015 settlement with a former Grijalva staffer who threatened a lawsuit and claimed the congressman was frequently drunk and created a hostile work environment. The Office of Congressional Ethics investigated the incident and found that Grijalva did not violate House rules or federal law. “The American people know who I’m here to serve, and they know in whose interests I’m acting,” Grijalva said in a statement. “They don’t know the same about Secretary Zinke.”...MORE