Joe Camacho is the obvious mouthpiece of King Ben… oops, I mean Governor Fitial. Perhaps, if the governor actually spent some time governing, the CNMI would be in better shape. Camacho will insure that U.S. citizens have preference for jobs. Isn’t that a local issue that has already been addressed? Does he think he will be able to see to enforcement if he is our delegate to Congress? And hasn’t Joe participated in several ethically questionable “meet and greet” activities (AGO and the deputy police commissioner).
I don’t know what to say about Jesse Borja. He has implied that he will somehow force the U.S. Congress and/or Homeland Security to implement…everything? He will ensure that the U.S. does not violate the Covenant. He will ensure that “we…are given our fair share of all of the benefits that we are entitled to as U.S. citizens.” Exactly what benefits are we not receiving? He will ensure that the United States will live up to “its promise to assist us in obtaining a higher standard of living….” I guess the billions already given and possibly squandered aren’t enough for his sense of entitlement. He takes that attitude of entitlement to Congress and then he will have 535 people with an actual voting power angry with him and by extension…us.
Kilili Sablan has publicly stated on several occasions that he is merely the messenger for many of the funds that we have received on his watch.
Yet, there are many, including the Covenant Party and Republican Party political machines, who say he is taking credit for getting these funds for the CNMI. Not true.
The governor has said that Kilili won’t cooperate with his office. First, cooperating with the governor isn’t the delegate’s job. The congressman works for and represents the people of the CNMI in the United States House of Representatives. He is NOT the personal representative of the governor or the CNMI Legislature. Heck, they can’t do the work they were elected to do; yet they want to have our delegate under their wing.
The fact is that the governor has all but refused to meet with our congressman. The governor can make or get someone to make any and all of the excuses he wants. After all, Angelo Villagomez only waited a year and a half to say that he was the reason for the mix up regarding the governor’s failure to attend the congressman’s inauguration. Since then the lt. governor meets with the congressman more than the governor does…if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck….
I could go on but I think you get the idea. The electorate in the CNMI will, as always, go to the polls and vote for a cousin, an uncle, or whatever without any regard for who is actually best for the job. Then they will complain vociferously about the winner.
For the umpteenth time I urge the people to stop voting for who your dad, uncle, mother, aunt, grandparents tell you to…only you and God are in the voting booth. Do we really want our delegate to Congress position to be yet another musical chair? I don’t. Let’s keep in office a man who went to Congress and proved he can do the job. Vote for Kilili in November.
JOHN H. DAVIS
Fina Sisu, Saipan
