Let me take this time to thank all of you who have assisted and participated in the community meetings and this week’s public forum to meet John Davis, listened to his views, and offered your thoughts and concerns on the issues to be faced by the delegate to the U.S. Congress.
We need John Davis as our delegate to U.S. Congress. He has pledged to faithfully represent all of the people of the CNMI with truth, honesty and integrity. As our delegate, he will support a self-sufficient, self-reliant CNMI. As a first step toward self-sufficiency and self-reliance, he will introduce legislation to transfer our Exclusive Economic Zone and our surrounding waters to the control of the CNMI. He will also introduce legislation to establish a veterans medical facility here in the CNMI. And he has also stated he will push for the Small Business Administration and other federal economic agencies to set up offices here in the CNMI.
John Davis has taken positions on issues facing all Americans, including voting and citizenship, foreign and defense policy, education and healthcare.
John Davis has lived in the CNMI for 22 years. He first arrived here in 1986 to assist in the opening of the Commonwealth Health Center and he was CHC’s first radiology department manager. He is a Vietnam veteran and retired from the U.S. Army after twenty years of service. He now teaches Advanced Placement Language Arts (English) and Advanced Placement Government and Politics at Marianas High School.
If you have not yet met and talked with John or heard him speak on the issues that will face our delegate, please join us on Thursday, Oct. 2, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the multi-purpose center in Susupe, Saipan. We are also attempting to arrange a time and place for public forums in Tinian and in Rota.
Check out davis forcongress.blogspot for more information about John Davis and what others say about him.
If you and your family and friends are unable to join us for the public forum, but would like to meet with John, please call me and we will arrange a convenient time and place for you all to get together.
Well-informed voters are essential to our democratic form of government. Please help us insure that our citizens are well-informed and vote intelligently on Nov. 4.
JEANNE H. RAYPHAND
San Vicente, Saipan
