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| Jim Barton |
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| Alex Dominguez |
It's not as if Rio Grande LNG was not locating at the Port of Brownsville if not given such a huge tax abatement. They'd already paid several $ million to the Port of Brownsville to satisfy a lease agreement.
Also, the huge natural gas pipeline from 150 miles north is nearing completion.
If Dominguez, Sofia Benavides, David Garza and Gus Ruiz felt they were in danger of losing the LNG plants unless they totally ripped off the taxpayers for the next two decades, they are beyond foolish.
If the "Foolish Four" choose to authorize similar tax abatements for the other two LNG plants frothing at the mouth to locate here, they will end up giving ONE BILLION DOLLARS in incentives to these multi-billion dollar companies.
We repost two pertinent blog comments, the first in the "Brownsville Observer," the second from "El Rrun Rrun:"
Anonymous March 7, 2018 at 7:59 PM
100% agree. This should have been a shoo in. Olivera has made bad choices. But no one is going to vote to incinerate their own neighborhood in a Texas City like LNG inferno disaster. Voted for Alonso as 'none of the above'. WE have a nice island, with many jobs! Jobs in tourism, shrimping, fishing, hotels, investment, wildlife, rentals, restaurants, travel and whoever would sell us out to to trash the place must be clueless!! He was doing the dirty work of sucio Lucio. Worst deal you ever made young man, taking advice from the sucios who only look out for themselves! Guessing he struck a deal with the Lucios to vote for LNG. They probably promised to deliver their full support to topple Olivera in return. In reality their support meant nothing, he couldn't break 40%. He had the support of the blogs, but the voters get in the booth and they are like, do I really want to see my kid's school explode in a ball of flames? Its your hide being hung out to dry in this election.
The following comment was submitted to Juan Montoya's "El Rrun Rrun:"
Anonymous said...
Dominguez could still turn this around. Look at the district map for Oliveira's district 37.
Oliveira's district 37 is South Padre, Port Isabel, the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife sanctuary, the Las Palomas Wildlife protection area, Boca Chica beach and state park, turtle nesting sites and East Brownsville. How anyone convinced Dominguez to cast a vote for LNG to pollute these people's land and water is crazy. LNG is political cyanide. See the results of the pro LNG slate of OP1033 port candidates that got flushed out a few years ago.
Shrimpers alone create 1500 regular jobs, 5 times what LNG is promising. The shrimp industry is careful to protect the baby shrimp to guarantee a good harvest year after year. The health of the estuary where the baby shrimp grow is very important for our jobs. If the baby shrimp die, there are no big gulf shrimp anymore. The fishermen abide to protect from overfishing. The hotels thrive on clean beaches. Anyone who would dump a bunch of chemical wastes here doesn't get it. Oliveira attends the Blessing of the Fleet every year when the shrimpers go out. How did Dominguez plan to bless the fleet, by killing all the shrimp with LNG mercury poison?
Eddie III's voters live in Harlingen. His district doesn't include South Padre or much of Brownsville. III wants to trash our areas with a dirty LNG plant and pipelines, consequence free. Dominguez was ambitious, a potential future rival. Sent on a wild goose chase against Oliveira, when Oliveira's district is South Padre and the shrimp estuaries and large wildlife protection areas. Cut throat move. Who knows maybe he would have run against Eddie III in a few years. But now he's been cut down early. U got played.
Dominguez could turn it around. There have been a few times where commissioners have rescinded their votes. He is still on the County Court. Make a public announcment of rescinding his vote for LNG, joining Eddie Trevino who also voted against LNG. Do the right thing. Explain he now understands it threatens the residents health and welfare and their lives. Look at the district map for 37, the proposed LNG site is right in the middle. It threatens everyone who lives here.
Well Trevino was no dummy. Who could forget it was the Island that decided the Cascos / John Wood election. The island voters came out in droves for Cascos because he protected the Isla Blanca nature preserve from greedy developers who would have trashed it. The island has some of the wealthiest investors, highest property values and strongest economies in the valley, anyone who would fuck with that is crazy loco. Dumping a pollution factory on Port Isabel to kill the baby shrimp and the fish and the sea turtles and turn the water into brown acid. For 300 pissant LNG maintenance jobs. Nope. Why not drop a nuclear power plant next to the causeway while you are at it. Jobs jobs jobs right Lucio? Lucio would, he doesn't care, his voters live in Harlingen. You wonder if these people even consider the effects of what they are doing. If the only thing that matters is winning elections, Dominguez should have studied the old Wood/Cascos election or the OP33 fiascos to understand why never to ever consider doing what he did. The coastal voters they know who butters their bread every year and it's not a mercury cloud LNG plant. Dominguez should have followed Trevino's and Cascos' example if he wanted to represent this area. Well its not too late if he is willing to make a dramatic rescinding. Lead. Take the bull by the horns. Anything can happen in a runoff.
March 8, 2018 at 4:04 PM
Anonymous said...Dominguez could still turn this around. Look at the district map for Oliveira's district 37.
Oliveira's district 37 is South Padre, Port Isabel, the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife sanctuary, the Las Palomas Wildlife protection area, Boca Chica beach and state park, turtle nesting sites and East Brownsville. How anyone convinced Dominguez to cast a vote for LNG to pollute these people's land and water is crazy. LNG is political cyanide. See the results of the pro LNG slate of OP1033 port candidates that got flushed out a few years ago.
Shrimpers alone create 1500 regular jobs, 5 times what LNG is promising. The shrimp industry is careful to protect the baby shrimp to guarantee a good harvest year after year. The health of the estuary where the baby shrimp grow is very important for our jobs. If the baby shrimp die, there are no big gulf shrimp anymore. The fishermen abide to protect from overfishing. The hotels thrive on clean beaches. Anyone who would dump a bunch of chemical wastes here doesn't get it. Oliveira attends the Blessing of the Fleet every year when the shrimpers go out. How did Dominguez plan to bless the fleet, by killing all the shrimp with LNG mercury poison?
Eddie III's voters live in Harlingen. His district doesn't include South Padre or much of Brownsville. III wants to trash our areas with a dirty LNG plant and pipelines, consequence free. Dominguez was ambitious, a potential future rival. Sent on a wild goose chase against Oliveira, when Oliveira's district is South Padre and the shrimp estuaries and large wildlife protection areas. Cut throat move. Who knows maybe he would have run against Eddie III in a few years. But now he's been cut down early. U got played.
Dominguez could turn it around. There have been a few times where commissioners have rescinded their votes. He is still on the County Court. Make a public announcment of rescinding his vote for LNG, joining Eddie Trevino who also voted against LNG. Do the right thing. Explain he now understands it threatens the residents health and welfare and their lives. Look at the district map for 37, the proposed LNG site is right in the middle. It threatens everyone who lives here.
Well Trevino was no dummy. Who could forget it was the Island that decided the Cascos / John Wood election. The island voters came out in droves for Cascos because he protected the Isla Blanca nature preserve from greedy developers who would have trashed it. The island has some of the wealthiest investors, highest property values and strongest economies in the valley, anyone who would fuck with that is crazy loco. Dumping a pollution factory on Port Isabel to kill the baby shrimp and the fish and the sea turtles and turn the water into brown acid. For 300 pissant LNG maintenance jobs. Nope. Why not drop a nuclear power plant next to the causeway while you are at it. Jobs jobs jobs right Lucio? Lucio would, he doesn't care, his voters live in Harlingen. You wonder if these people even consider the effects of what they are doing. If the only thing that matters is winning elections, Dominguez should have studied the old Wood/Cascos election or the OP33 fiascos to understand why never to ever consider doing what he did. The coastal voters they know who butters their bread every year and it's not a mercury cloud LNG plant. Dominguez should have followed Trevino's and Cascos' example if he wanted to represent this area. Well its not too late if he is willing to make a dramatic rescinding. Lead. Take the bull by the horns. Anything can happen in a runoff.
March 8, 2018 at 4:04 PM
You seem to forget that Dominguez was in the same spot in 2012, when Oliveira beat him in a runoff that year. He's toast, cause he's compromised. (LNG)
ReplyDeleteDominguez strikes me yet another "big shot" who thinks he's big because he caters hand over foot to the Lucio's. The big slave on a little plantation. What a waste. No one trusts the Lucios. Maybe Dominguez thought he was in the big leagues but all the Lucios saw was a little shrimp they could skewer for their own gain.
ReplyDeleteDominguez using Montoya to promote his campaign is a sign of his decision-making process. Montoya is so dirty. Alex should dump him and say he is dumping Juan.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't be so bad if at least Mr. Montoya kept the fight somewhat even in his blog. Most of the time Mr. Montoya approves most comments, even the slimy spitballs aimed at him, which is to his credit. HOWEVER, it's hands off when it comes to criticising his SACRED COWS such as the Surly Sorolas, longtime "advertiser" Constable Abel Gomez, the Bankrolling Begums, port commissioners Norwegian John Wood and Ralph "The Rebel" Cowen and of course Alex "IM4LNG" Dominguez whom LNG opponents have harshly criticized for his lack of vision, lack of convictions, lack of courage to speak clearly and upfront instead of using proxies like Mr. Montoya to do the dirty work for him. Most of these comments we LNG opponents have submitted against Dominguez concerning his support for LNG linger somewhere UNPUBLISHED. Sadly, even with all this shit, Dominguez is the lesser of the two devils and I'd rather do the midnight waltz with Dominguez (I'm barfing as I say this) than with Oliveira who ain't done shit in 34 years except INVITE LNG to make a toxic dump out of our paradise AND party his ass off (and not inviting us) and charging it on the taxpayers credit card. Quick: Name something Oliveira's done for Cameron County lately, whenever. If you're scratching your ass, you are correct. Oliveira ain't done shit. That's my bumper sticker.
ReplyDeleteNaΓ―ve as all Hell.
DeleteI like Alex better than Oliveira. Oliveira has been there a long time. Time for fresh blood, a real Democrat who cares about the environment and about the students and the young people's future. But there nothing fresh about poisoning us. Man that's cold blooded. Something Trump would do. In bed with the fossil fuels. Damn, saw the native Americans fighting with their lives against the Dakota access pipeline while Trump didn't care what the little brown people thought about it. I wish we had a real Democrat fighting for our future and our clean water the way those native Americans fought for theirs. I'm saying I didn't hear Oliveira fighting against LNG either. He was awful quiet. Like crickets chirping. A damn shame, you don't shit where you eat and you don't shit your own bed. Every kid knows that. Even Trump knows that. He's all about the LNG and the frack and the oil, as long as they ain't drilling near his Mar A Lago.
ReplyDeleteIt would be cool if Dominguez did dramatically rescind his vote at the next meeting. Even better if he called a huge press conference to get every fucking headline and everyone's attention. Something weird was going on with the LNG deals. Especially how there's a Space X plant next to it, rocket failure + LNG could blow the island to smithereens. But, probably he's just going to play it safe and lose. Shame.
ReplyDelete[A damn shame, you don't shit where you eat and you don't shit your own bed. Every kid knows that. Even Trump knows that. He's all about the LNG and the frack and the oil, as long as they ain't drilling near his Mar A Lago.]
ReplyDeleteTrue that bro. Oliveira doesn't really live here, he comes here to defend hapless women going thru divorces and to MAKE MONEY by shoving LNG pipes up our butts. So Oliveira comes to shit in Brownsville then gives Austin whatever money he can rip off TSC students. FTP!