Cruz said the public may want to surf the Internet about the background of Rasa, the spokesman and adviser of the CNMI Descents for Self-Government and Indigenous Rights.
Rasa claims that Cruz was spreading baseless allegations and “needs to be stopped and put in his place.”
“Where would that place be,” Cruz asked, adding that Rasa is “now a godfather and is making threats in public.”
He didn’t elaborate.
Cruz reiterated that he doesn’t have a ghost writer.
“The problem with some people is that they can’t comprehend the fact that I write my letter and that I have a B.S. degree and an A.A. degree,” Cruz said.
He again criticized the Indigenous Affairs Office for not doing anything about the issues affecting the local people.
Cruz said the office should be using local funds to work on its Chamorro dictionary project which, according to Rasa, is federally funded.
“This is contradictory — they file a lawsuit against the federal government but they’re keeping the federal funds,” Cruz said.
Rasa said he has nothing to do with the governor’s decision to sue the federal government over the federalization law, but Cruz noted that the former speaker is the “behind the scene advisor.”
Cruz added, “Rasa cannot get over the fact that 78.8 percent of our people back then opted to become part of the American family. Since then Mr. Rasa has been studying the Covenant and all other materials to find out what when wrong during the negotiations, and today he is trying to re-write history based on his recollections of his past mistakes.”
Rasa opposed the ratification of the Covenant in 1975.
