By Ambrose M. Bennett – Activist
THE Truth is Ambrodamus has offered PROVEN solutions for many issues that continue to go “unchecked” as if WE the People should NOT believe the TAYA Prosperity that WE are seeing! Our SILENCE is going to be the DEATH of OUR Economy and the Demise of OUR quality of life as it may take “divine intervention to resurrect the CNMI.” Indigenous citizens get loud & even lead when “culture” is injected to highjack issues & people, but THEIR SILENCE in the Political Arena only creates “an incubator FOR failing to DO something FOR the People” — a TRUTH that no one can deny. WE can no longer AFFORD to pick & choose issues for Public Out-Cry (Protest) given so much has gone wrong, as there should be a constant flow of Public Out-Cry for the long overdue Checks & Oversights on the WASTE are DONE to REFORM the CNMI for the BETTER! I don’t take any pleasure in this, but desperate times calls for desperate measures, and this accountability “Is Not going-away Reps. & Senators,” the ball is in your court!
WE can DO a lot of things within the CNMI to eliminate ALL the waste in our government, but WE need the “Right Leaders made OF the Right Stuff who will Do the Right Thing.” WE also need leaders who actually LISTEN to the People they work for, as one of the main attributes of being a Good Leader is being a Good Listener! However, our leaders HATE to listen and say “So & So was Right” because they want all the political credit. Heck, our leaders even pretend they don’t read the newspaper to avoid dealing with the admonishments & ideas of Ambrodamus, Zaldy & Other Citizens — playing “deaf & ignorant for SELF Preservation to sit”! However, I’m sure many voters are waiting to see what Reps. Yumul & Attao and Senators Magofna & Manglona are going to do about the Gaming Industry as a whole, which is especially TRUE for Rep. Attao who wants to be Governor. But instead of fixing the Gaming Governance System, WE just saw Senators Jude U. Hofschneider, Karl King-Nabors, Frank Q. Cruz, and Rep. Patrick San Nicolas take action to reduce the salaries of Tinian’s Commissioners right-after the Op ed by Ambrodamus calling for a single Gaming Commission. It’s soooo darn obvious they are trying to avoid the single Gaming Commission because Ambrodamus’ is pushing for this common-sense solution to end waste & improve the Gaming Governance System. So, will these Reps. & Senators continue down the path of the Same-O TAYA or will they Reform the System?
WE need Reps. Yumul & Attao, Senators Magofna & Manglona to tell the People their intentions, as pretending you didn’t read the paper and playing DUMB won’t work and may even cost your seat for being Ignorant & IMPOTENT! I’m sure voters who are informed & objective minded can see WE have a “Scatterbrain approach to the Gaming Industry” with three commissions, which is why the industry is so dysfunctional even paying commissioners when there is no casino. Having an “Elected Parttime Gaming Commission” like Nevada is clearly the way WE should go given Nevada has PROVEN it’s possible even with the enormous size of Gaming in Las Vegas. Voters are not stupid and can see this TRUTH Reps & Senators, as it’s clear WE need a single Elected Gaming Commission. Elected officials are also Accountable to the People which will FORCE the commissioners to promote & grow the industry while governing over the industry or get fired to end the Same-O TAYA performing commissioners who are Politically PROTECTED! Heck, WE just experienced commissioners FAILING to collect OUR money and their own salaries in the millions and had the NERVE to ask the Government for an ILLEGAL payment. WE are being PLAYED People!
WE the People need action NOW from Reps. & Senators to be able to “elect a New Gaming Commission in the 2026 election,” as the Gaming Industry & OUR entire Economy are in LIMBO. Being silent with no actions pretending there isn’t a problem is WHY our Economy is in ICU, especially when there has never been any real governance over the Poker Machines & E-Gaming. WE the People have NO protection against possible rig machines, no oversight on Poker & E-Gaming revenues & taxes. WE the People don’t know anything over the entire Gaming Industry due to the Scatterbrain System with “no checks & balances on all the gaming activities,” as the present Casino Commissions are limited to their island. WE must end this scatterbrain approach to our Gaming Industry, as the Tinian Senators are trying to avoid PROGRESS again because it was proposed by Ambrodamus. If WE allow bigotry & refusing to listen to continue being the “NORM” killing progress while WE are SILENT — then WE deserve the Same-O TAYA! Reps. Yumul & Attao, Senators Magofna & Manglona need to provide a solution or face the high possibility of voter’s revenge in November. WE want, need & deserve PROGRESS with the Gaming Industry, not the Same-O TAYA! For the sake of the CNMI, Voters shouldn’t let them get away with Playing Deaf & Ignorant while Failing to FIX the Governance over our Gaming Industry!
One People, One Direction.
Ambrose M. Bennett is an Economist who minored in Sociology, a Political Scientist, a retired teacher & former CNMI Board of Education Member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays-Lifetime Humanities & Religious Scholar who resides in Kagman III in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
