THE Senate on Monday did not comment on the letter of Matua Council for Native Chamorro Advancement President Liana M.S. Hofschneider who is asking Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, Senate President Edith Deleon Guerrero and Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez to fire Indigenous Affairs Office Resident Executive Ross H. Manglona.
Hofschneider’s letter was among the miscellaneous communications included in the Senate session agenda.
However, when the Senate president asked the members if they had any comments on any of the miscellaneous communications, no one responded.
“We’re good? No comments? Thank you,” Deleon Guerrero said.
In the House session on July 7, the Matua Council leader’s letter was the only item on the agenda.
When Speaker Edmund Villagomez asked if anyone wanted to discuss it, one of the members responded “Ready,” which means, “move along.”
The speaker then referred Hofschneider’s letter to the House Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations “for their reference.”
In an interview, Manglona said he is grateful to lawmakers “for seeing beyond the ranting, and for standing up for our efforts at uniting our community.”
“It’s truly unsettling to know there are still the 1% of the population that don’t believe in equity and are…working towards achieving their separatist ideology. If we allow them an inch, they will then ask for a foot and so on. Today it’s the mwar on the flag. Tomorrow it’ll be the anthem. So we need to put them in their place now,” Manglona said.
Ross Manglona
