BROWNSVILLE CAN'T AFFORD EDUARDO CAMPARINO AS CITY MANAGER

Eduardo Camparino

Even as Brownsville's unethical mayor, Tony Martinez, hedges on a national, open-ended search for a new city manager to replace the just-retired Charlie Cabler, saying:  "We'll see what other cities have done," a familiar local name, consistent with the city's compradismo philosophy emerges, that of Port Director Eduardo Campirano.

As the late actor Don Knotts, in his role as Barney Fife, would say:  "Nip it in the bud!"

Brownsville can't afford Eduardo Camparino as City Manager.

Ed "Campy" Camparino, as Port Director, much like the Cameron County Commissioners Court, totally "bent over" for the ultra-rich LNG companies, then in his own, uneducated way, tried to explain LNG:  "LNG is the liquefied form of the natural gas that people use in their homes for cooking and heating, and has been safely handled for many years." (Eduardo Camparino, Letter to the Editor, Brownsville Herald, 10/5/2015.)

What an absolute doofus!

LNG plants do not simply burn natural gas on a two burner stove like grandma warming a tortilla!


LNG plants compress natural gas to 1/600th of its original volume, a messy, dirty, complicated, heavily polluting process that makes shipping highly economical(1 shipping vessel vs. 600 vessels.)

At the Port of Brownsville, the proposed LNG facility will dump millions of gallons of heated effluent each day into one of the healthiest shallow-water bays in the world. The plants’ 500-foot flaring towers—which release mercury, hydrogen sulfide, helium, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and other impurities from the natural gas—would burn a couple of miles downwind from the state’s most popular beach.

Local environmental groups estimate that air pollution will quadruple in the Brownsville-South Padre Island metroplex, a 10-mile stretch of coastline, residential neighborhoods and small businesses that may soon sit under the brown-cloud haze of pollution already familiar to residents of industrialized regions like Corpus Christi, Galveston and Houston.

The purification and refrigeration process for LNG is so energy-intensive that the amount of greenhouse gas emissions for this region would be staggering.

Not only is Camparino informationally-challenged, willfully or unwittingly, we can't afford to feed him.

On a taxpayer funded trip to "look for business for the Port of Brownsville,"  Campirano and two other port officials chowed down on a $1,800 taxpayer-subsidized meal in Shanghai, China, disqualifying themselves as stewards of public money and interests. It bears mentioning that the Port of Brownsville threesome did not choke on that extravagant meal or lose sleep over the expensive burden to the country's poorest taxpayers, but simply defecated that grub, then went back the next day for $1,600 more of the pricey fare, inviting the BEDC's Jason Hilts to share in the gluttony. 

No thanks!

Brownsville can't afford Eduardo Camparino as City Manager.