HOW is it that we got stuck with Felix Camacho for another term? Half a year later, I am still confounded by the fact that the people of Guam voted for Camacho again and with a running mate who doesn’t know the first thing about running a government other than how to use it for his own personal gain; Mike Cruz has true mastery of that skill.
Not only does Camacho lack charisma and leadership quality; he is by and large ignorant of the issues that assail his island. Why? Because he is seldom here — mentally or physically. He is always jetting off to the States and elsewhere for non-existent government business.
Camacho simply stares into the camera lens with a vacant look in his eyes, indicative of the mental void that occupies his laurelled head. This is the image we are presented with time after time our governor makes an appearance on the news to explain executive response or opinion on the issue at hand. He has provided no agenda to address the educational debacle our island now faces nor has he put forward a cogent plan to lift our island out debt.
Camacho simply takes up space in our government and collects a plump salary for doing it — for doing absolutely nothing. Camacho would be more useful as an attraction at the primate house in the local zoo than he is as a governor — then again it would he inhumane to force the apes and chimps to share their habitat with a creature so profoundly stupid.
Lt. Gov. Mike Cruz is no better and has quickly taken after Camacho’s lead, taking needless trip after needless trip at the taxpayers’ expense. Doctors do not make for good civil servants, especially when they are still practicing medicine. How is it possible that Dr. Cruz can be both a surgeon and a lieutenant governor simultaneously? The answer is that he cannot.
The fact that he openly claims he can do both makes a mockery of the office he holds, which is a full-time job. Being lieutenant governor is a full-time job serving the people of Guam; a job that Cruz clearly does not take seriously by thinking he can still be a doctor on the side.
Make a decision Cruz! If you want to be a doctor, then be a doctor. If you want to be a lieutenant governor, then be one, but stop carrying on like you are able to do both. The fact that he is in the National Guard is yet another example of Cruz spreading himself too thin. He reminds me of a boy scout who is trying to earn every possible merit badge so that he can proudly display them all on his sash. Yet he seems entirely unconcerned with the level of quality his work has assumed in any of his many roles.
I can assure you I would no sooner go under his dull scalpel than I would have him serve our island’s interests as a competent and dedicated lieutenant governor. His mediocrity as both a surgeon and a public servant are inexorable eventualities owing to his greed to acquire titles and accomplishments with only a modest regard for the responsibility implied by them.
Camacho and Cruz truly are the clown princes of our government, and I am sure they will continue to amaze us with their foolish antics and pretenses to serious leadership for the next four years. With such feckless “leaders” we can all be assured that Guam will see no improvement whatsoever attributable to their efforts.
Camacho and Cruz have promised us four more years of stagnation and perhaps even a touch of recidivism. Until 2010, we the people of Guam must rely upon ourselves and a select few of our trusted government officials to get things done right. If we stick together, we can survive typhoon Camacho-Cruz. The next few years will be tough, but happier days are ahead!

KELLY MARTINEZ
(SSGT U.S. Army Ret.)
Yigo, Guam