Some of the fires are so hot, so challenging, that it's difficult for us to make any progress,

the administration knew about, that all of us have known about for a long period of time.

disingenuous at best and outrageous at worst.

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.