IT may seem that I dislike the Governor but I don’t, I just detest his behavior as the leader of the CNMI who continues to deflect and gaslighting issues with half-truths and even outright LIES! I’m just astounded that he thinks he can get away with it, as if We the People are stupid. Don’t forget when you vote that he PROMISED to all voters that he would explain ALL the Allegations against him but now his Executive Assistant is facing possible jail time for what clearly appears to be for “keeping HIS secrets”. And now he gets on the radio with a “song-and-dance around the issues” in an attempt to dispel the allegations about the misuse of HIS utility bills that was immediately put on Facebook.
Does he really think the people with common sense and are not aligned with his party are going to fall for his latest Deflecting-Gaslighting Show? FYI Governor, getting on the radio for 15 minutes and Social-Media with a prepared script when the JGO is conducting live Public Hearings on you does not make you look good at all, especially to us-regular folks-in-the-cheap-seats who are not Republican Loyalists. Calling for the JGO to meet with him privately IS NOT being transparent & open and going on the radio IS NOT being held accountable TO the People and their Representatives in the JGO. I keep telling you Governor that you need to be DEMANDING to TESTIFY if you truly want OUR (the People’s) official investigation to end. Also, and FYI Governor, the Poll that shows 75% believe the JGO is prolonging OUR Investigation IS NOT a Scientific Poll and most of us with common sense believe your emissaries are hard at work voting FOR the “alleged Godfather of the CNMI.” There was even a Poll that had you leading in the choice for Governor which only made you look more like the Godfather you are alleged to be. You really need to call-it-all-off as you are looking more and more like a real Godfather and it is really “time-to-come-too-Jesus” as we say in my culture.
Getting on the radio about your utility bills that WE the People are paying and not explaining to our Representatives in the JGO only PROVES the contempt you have for the process and the People who paid all those illegal charges. You want to explain “one or two utility bills” when there is a “three-year history being scrutinized by the JGO” which means you are deflecting the issue and you still didn’t explain all the issues associated with the Piggery. WE the People want to know WHY does the Governor of the CNMI have to live in his sister’s residence and WHY does the Governor of the CNMI have to ask his siblings for a measly 6,000 when he makes over 100,000 a year? WHAT in the world is he doing with his salary when WE the People are PAYING for EVERYTHING associated with his livelihood that include his travel, his attorney fees and even using OUR DPS Officers like babysitters and even their credit cards? Governor, I must say there are thousands of us who see you as a PATHETIC example to be the Executive of a State Level Government, but I guess he really thinks WE the People are stupid.
You still have a lot more explaining Governor that will take HOURS, not minutes, on the radio. So you can start explaining your reimbursements & expenses for: the electronics, wheel barrel, hunting equipment, cameras, chain-saw, liquor, shopping trips, WHY 26 different credit cards, WHY are WE the People paying for 85 fishing trips and all those First Class Tickets & side trips to Boise on OUR dollars!
To be continued: One people One Direction for Democrats.
The writer is an Economist, Political Scientist, retired teacher, former CNMI Board of Education Member, James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays & Humanities Scholar who resides in Kagman III.
Ambrose Bennett
