Seven Portlanders Urged Scott Pruitt To Be A Reasonable Man. The EPA Called Their Postcard a Threat.

"CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!!! We are watching you."

The Willamette River. (Daniel Stindt)
By Katie Shepherd

Seven people sent a postcard from Portland to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt with a message: "We are watching you!"

The EPA took that as a threat.

EPA Director Scott Pruitt

Timothy Cama, an environment and energy reporter for news website The Hill in Washington, D.C., tweeted a photo of the card addressed to Pruitt.  The postmark shows that the message was mailed from Portland and signed by seven people named Myrna, Michele, Chris, Signe, Lucy, Olivia and Isabel.

The postcard, which the EPA deemed menacing enough to be categorized as "potentially threatening," urged Pruitt to reconsider his views on climate change.

The card, which features a photo of a man standing on an iceberg, reads: "Dear Mr. Pruitt, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!!! We are watching you. For the sake of our planet, our children, and our grandchildren, will you be a reasonable man? I repeat, we are watching you!"

Scary stuff.

The postcard is one of the threats cited by the EPA to explain Pruitt's 24/7 security detail, who follow him around on the taxpayer's dime. The security force has cost at least $3.5 million.

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