By Ambrose M. Bennett – Activist
THE Truth is Ambrodamus is a man-of-his-word about getting tougher in 2026, and Rep. Yumul & Attao — Senators Magofna & Manglona are the FIRST. I have written entirely too much about the sad state of the Gaming Industry’s path to nowhere that WE have been on for over a decade. I had suggested the CNMI adapt “Nevada’s proven Governance System of a Single Parttime Gaming Commission.” There is also No Governance over E-Gaming, and its common sense WE don’t need three commissions — it’s ridiculous waste! I have also made futile attempts to contact Rep. Yumul, Gaming Chair, and to this very day no response to my Op eds nor my personal inquiries. So, Reps. & Senators this is just the first of more to come, as I truly meant what I previously said about getting tougher. I’m seeking real ACCOUNTABILITY FOR the PEOPLE while our Dems are acting like “church mice.” Someone must DIRECTLY hold ALL of OUR leaders accountable FOR the People! This is not personal, as I’ve supported all of you. I even admire your father Rep. Yumul for his awesome accomplishments in business. I just wish he had put a Hardware Store in Kagman. The business community & government ignored developing the peninsula — no fast foods, no public services, no NOTHING but grocery stores, a Clinic & PHI — but No real Progress!
I’m not going to go away Rep. Yumul, Chair, Rep. Attao, Vice Chair & Senator Magofna, Chair & Manglona, Vice Chair over Gaming, as you are all over Gaming, so you can either call for a Public Hearing or start writing legislation & give the People an explanation on fixing the Gaming Governance System that WE deserve, as I can GUARANTEE this will be a year of ACCOUNTABILITY! All these officials are over Gaming and I plan to divide-and-conquer them individually, as WE the People need only One Thing — Progress, not the Same-O TAYA! But KUDOS to the “unknown businessman” for speaking up DEMANDING Accountability from Representatives Roy Ada, Vincent Seman Aldan, Roman C. Benavente, Diego Camacho, Joseph A. Flores, and Raymond Palacios! You can bet most if not all on this list haven’t done “squat” to create real PROGRESS and they BETTER respond accordingly, as I will be following up until they DO or they are FIRED in 2026. WE need other citizens to come forward DEMANDING for ACCOUNTABILITY for PROGRESS and take No Prisoners as they either survive 2026 or DIE Politically! Most of the leaders have lost their way, save only one or two out of 29, with the GOP’s tactic of “go-along & get-along practice in the Legislature to keep everyone safe FOR re-election” when they’re supposed to be ADVERSARIES! Sitting comfortably while failing in your fiduciary duties is no longer acceptable!
Just think, there hasn’t been any real PROGRESS for nearly TWO Decades under GOP Governors seeing Hotels, DFS & Businesses closing while WE go backwards with No real Economic Plan for Progress. It has been heartbreaking to watch the demise of OUR Economy & Life being an Economist who only wanted to HELP the Commonwealth and her People to experience some sibilance of real PROGRSS! It also seems the lessons taught by history are NOT being learned, as it was “No to Sugar Dock’s progress” that killed Tinian’s Economic potential for Progress & new diving platforms for youth but only a rennervated waterhole resulted for adults. “No to renewing Kan Pacific’s Lease of the Marianas Resort that would have preserved the Japanese Tourist Market and now look — No Resort & No Japanese! Heck, the Resort was given away FREE without protest, and WE got TAYA just like the MACS giveaway for only “promises” but TAYA Progress guaranteed FOR the People! They don’t listen to Ambrodamus, and the People have YET-to-DEMAND fixing these mistakes, which is WHY I’m calling them out, as they don’t respect me, so I don’t respect them. Over 90% of our legislature are “ride-along get-along” that has led to No Reforms, No Checks & Balances and No Oversight, just their plans for using “Subsistence Allowances & Sitting”! Voters must END this Same-O “safe politics & self-aggrandizement of leaders” to DEMAND MORE tangible outcomes FOR the People who hired them to do OUR work of “governing & building a sound economy” that WE can Trust to DELIVER real PROGRESS, not the Same-O TAYA & Austerity, Loans and Begging the Feds, which is the Reality!
No disrespect, but the insertion of “culture” created cultural proponents who seem more about securing GOP support than saving the culture, as the mining can NOT kill the cultures! FYI readers, Cultures die from the “lack of maintenance & failing to adapt & overcome the social challenges over time,” which has been proven by the Science of Sociology. People are jumping on board against mining due to one word, culture, and there is NO petition FOR mining. Cultural was injected solely to PREVENT indigenous & outside opposition, as culture is “a GOP deflecting & gaslighting tactic ever-since” when there are very legitimate arguments FOR mining! History & Reality dictate that given China is already mining & the UN controls international waters that a No Petition of 1,000 is like a feather on the scale v the HUNDREDS of MILLIONS depending on mining the minerals, so guess who wins-in-the-End which is the TRUE Reality! The Reality is the CNMI needs-to & must PURSUE some form of real control over the mining for the least damage and to attain some of the economic windfall in the billions allotted for environmental protection & from the actual mining revenues — it’s called facing the Reality to find PROGRESS, as WE can’t just say No which offers No Chance for real PROGRESS!
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.
