Days after damaging video surfaces, EPA regional chief Armendariz resigns

DallasNews.com ^ | April 30, 2012 | Randy Lee Loftis

[Charles Martel]

Al Armendariz said Monday morning that he had submitted a letter of resignation on Sunday.

Armendariz was already a lightning rod for conservative critics of the EPA in Texas before last week, when a video became public in which Armendariz spoke of "crucifying" oil and gas companies that broke the law.

Members of Congress and Texas officials jumped on Armendariz's words as proof that he had run the EPA's regional office as an anti-industry zealot.

The environmental engineer, on leave from a professor post at Southern Methodist University, sent a letter Monday to his friends and supporters:

[spokeshave]

I want him scourged not flogged.

[hattend]

Your disgronificator is tuned most excellently.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You must still be laboring under the illusion that the press is functioning as the founding fathers saw it....protectors of the will of the free people.

They have been taken over by those opposed to the people getting a free flow of information.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Love the graphic....

[TheOldLady]

Great headline. I was trying to figure out why someone would resign over damaging the surfaces on a video.

[BOBTHENAILER]

bEAUTIFUL. cAN YOU EMAIL ME A FULL SIZED VERSION THAT I CAN BLAST EMAIL ALL MY OIL & GAS CRONIES?

BIGFOOT2@CHARTERMI.NET—ALL LOWER CASE, sorry about the cpslock.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[PAR35]

I thought SMU had higher standards.

Never heard of Craig James?

[Monorprise]

Better than it was 50 years ago, indeed i might argue that our “free press” is perhaps more free than it has been in a 100 years. Largely a product of the internet allowing practically anyone to enter into the business.

[Monorprise]

“I want him scourged not flogged.”
I want his many victorious to sue him in Texas for abuses under the color of the law in a VERY PUBLIC trial before an elected Texas Judge.

An example need to be made of this temporizer and Washington agents need to be reminded that they are not above the law, nor are they imperial masters. They are suppose to govern with the consent NOT fear of the governed!

[LtKerst]

Al Armendariz

Cutting the Cancer out of American Govt.

One scumbag at a time.....

[aces]

Yep, he will surface in some Iranian nuke site as the public face for mullah dweeb boy..oh excuse me Obamma mamba jamma lenin Khomeini..

[aces]

Let’s just make it the entire federal government...they are against us..

[Xenalyte]

FYI, e-mail doesn’t care about upper or lower case. There’s no functional difference between jimrob@google.com and JimRob@google.com and JIMROB@google.com. They all would go the same place, if they existed.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Thanks for education——a cyber wizard I am not.

[RedMDer]

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