We’re assuming that Apple has reserved several email addresses to accommodate as many fake names (such her “Richard Windsor,” alias) as former Obama EPA Chief Lisa Jackson will need in her new job:
Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson will become Apple’s top environmental officer, the company’s CEO Tim Cook announced Tuesday.
Cook, who made the announcement at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital D11 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., said Jackson will be reporting directly to him and is “going to be coordinating a lot of this activity across the company.”
One Twitter user wonders what kind of things will be in Jackson’s job description:
EPA's Lisa Jackson goign to Apple. Interested to see if she has any role in new product development http://t.co/neQTGJpO2W #energy #climate
— Alex Wood (@AWatONT) May 29, 2013
If product development is in Jackson’s future, prepare for your next iPhone to cost at least $15,000.
Some Twitter reaction offers Jackson congratulations, while others question the move:
Lisa Jackson resigned b/c she was caught hiding emails subject to FOIA. Instead of jail, she lands a job at @ Apple? So frustrating.
— SmokeNMirrors71 (@SmokeNMirrors71) May 29, 2013
Lisa Jackson @ Apple & @StefCutter @ CNN. Apparently, all libs have 2 do 2 B wildly successful is be profoundly dishonest & integrity-free.
— SmokeNMirrors71 (@SmokeNMirrors71) May 29, 2013
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You got caught to conducting official private EPA business under a false email alias? Congrats! Come work for Apple. http://t.co/pSVTrpiNXu
— Ed Bott (@edbott) May 29, 2013
1. Apple CEO get browbeaten by congress for not paying enough taxes. 2. Apple CEO hires DC sleazebag for 7-figure job. The system worked.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/PROVIDENCE1791/status/339746374146981888
Flashback tweet:
Apple CEO to sit with Michelle Obama during State of the Union http://t.co/dFrI3UB6
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 12, 2013
Every now and then the revolving door needs maintenance.
One question that now needs answering is why Apple would need somebody to head up environmental policy for the “least green” tech company when Al Gore has been on the company’s board of directors for over a decade.
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