I WOULD like to know why the AGO didn’t indict Tony Sanchez, campaign architect for Camacho-Moylan and other campaigns, before the elections?
Maybe the AGO didn’t want to disturb the electoral process but this is not a “new story,” if you will. I have given the AGO the benefit of the doubt from the beginning – and I still do – but I believe the timing of the indictment remains suspect.
It could be just to put the new AG, Alicia Limtiaco, in an uncomfortable position, a test, if you will. Maybe she should be “uncomfortable,” I don’t know.
Before the elections, way before it I would have liked the linkages of Abramoff and folks here be publicized, in the legal context, so that the electorate can see for themselves all the undue influences that occurred in ’98 and in ’02. Maybe if that had happened, there would have been more “fear” in the Camacho camp before they orchestrated more hate-mongering ads through their surrogates. Because funding for those ads had to come from somewhere and the probability that local funds might have been used (like in ’02 but still not yet proven) remains high. (And they call themselves Christians?)
I sincerely hope the AG to be, Alicia Garrido Limtiaco, will not be interested in establishing a fiefdom, less interested in placating the Governor — and the legislature’s — “whims,” and more interested in making sure the laws that politicians themselves write into law and approve will be soundly followed. While people might not want to see too, a blank-check term where an AG just ‘approves to form’ like the days of old. (And I’m not besmirching all the previous AG’s before Douglas B. Moylan. Those who “sold out” know who they are.)

MATT PHILIPS
Mangilao, Guam