I was going to start this letter with a few unkind words about the governor’s so-called volunteer attorney Mr. Howard P. Willens. But I think that Mr. Ed Propst pretty well covered that in his letter to the press on Friday, April 24, so I will spend my time covering the governor’s actions since he took office.
Let’s go back to the last election. Mr. Fitial made several campaign promises. He was going to get rid of the CUC fuel surcharge. He had some investors all lined up to come in as soon as he was elected. He was going to run an open government. He was going to bring better times to us all. I could list a few more but why bother. Let’s take a look at what he has done.
First off the CUC fuel surcharge is not only still with us but is higher than ever. His promised investors never showed up.
He was going to run an open government. This one we have to take a long look at. Let’s start with the federalization lawsuit. Did he tell any public forums about it? No he decided that he spoke for all of us and went ahead and filed the suit. He promised that he would use no money from the general fund. So why is he hiding the truth about where the money came from and is still coming from? I do not know which residents he talks to. But the residents that I talked to were and still are opposed to the lawsuit.
So we have to ask ourselves who he is trying to help with the lawsuit?
His previous boss or the local residents that elected him into office?
Next, he decides not to use the man that we elected to represent us in the U.S. Congress. So he sent Lynn Knight to Washington as his personal representative. Since when does the governor have a personal representative?
He is supposed to work for us and work with the people that we elect to work with him. I want to know just who is he paying to keep his lady friend in D.C. Is it his friendly little foreign investor or are the people of the CNMI paying her bills?
I have to ask myself just what are the governor and his friend trying to pull that they do not want us to know about and who is going to benefit from it? Would it be his friend or the people of the CNMI?
Well, governor it does not look to me that you have done much to help the people of the CNMI. Even if you get your hands on some of the stimulus money I do not think that you can buy enough votes to get re-elected.
You see, governor, the working people of the CNMI are starting to see the right and wrong of what is going on in their homeland.
More and more they are going to get rid of the politicians who do not keep their word and work for the residents of the CNMI.
As I stated in my first letter, the good old boy train is still heading to Banzai Point and it is picking up speed all the time. It is going to get there on Election Day this year. I am anxious to see who survives the trip.
FREDERICK PROSSER
As Matuis, Saipan
