NO disrespect intended but, it was really a Hilarious Gaslighting Show to see the Governor on Commonwealth Day trying to sound “DIGNIFIED” because he has PROVEN to voters, he cares very little for OUR Democracy Our Constitution & Laws and OUR sacred agreement with the United States. Him and his Republicans are proving nothing is sacred to them and they ONLY sought out FOREIGN Investors who are from countries considered America’s enemies destroying our relationship with OUR Ally Japan. There is far more foreign investment in the CNMI than American, which is part of OUR problem. Given “what Republicans have done & failed to do,” it is becoming more obvious everyday with the Senate’s contemptuous behavior that most of them are literally & figuratively “Dead Poli-tricking-Politicians Walking.” If they are not all rounded up by the Feds with RICO, then surely Voters will have to teach them a Poli-tricking Lesson come Judgement Day.
The picture of the Senate President with a big smile claiming the Senate is going to literally FORCE their Kangaroo Trial down the House’s & the People’s Throats like they did with the Casino, it should be clear they are preparing their own political NOOSES! Does the Senate President know or even considered they are throwing their political careers away for a Governor who is politically “a dead man walking”! Do these Republican Senators realize that in the end they are going to be dead-politicians walking too along with the Governor! If the Senate continues down the road of “skullduggery that is full of pot-holes created by continuous loyalty, betrayal, deception, lies and crime” one can only imagine how SCORNED voters are going to feel on Judgment Day. Senator Manglona is RIGHT about them thinking they wouldn’t get caught but more importantly, they don’t think voters will get rid of them, which is why this is so frightening! For the Governor, the Senate President and Republicans Senators to think they can totally disrespect our Constitution & Laws, their counterparts in the House and even the People who hired them right-in-our-faces is the ultimate Political Contempt for Voters.
I have it on VERY-VERY-VERY Good authority that the Governor IS NOT going to beat his RICO Case as the record of on the primary people charged beating the RICO Statute is virtually ZERO! But as usual these Republicans don’t listen to me and my warnings so I will just continue to say I Told You So adding to my credibility as a Political Scientist and Activist FOR the People. I just hope and pray for the sake of the People and OUR Commonwealth that the Feds will “CLEAN-HOUSE” by getting all the LOYAL Lieutenants, and soldiers in the Governor’s alleged Criminal Organization like they normally do in RICO cases. I have full-faith in the FBI’s work and I can tell voters with a high degree of credibility that “The Feds are Coming Soon” — for TRUE! Why these Republican Senators, lawyers and Representatives want to try and save a man who is already politically “dead” just shows the Governor’s POWER over HIS Loyalists like WE saw with Governor Fitial.
My concern is that I don’t want Voters looking like idiots by re-electing the Governor, HIS Senators and HIS Representatives only to see the Feds come in and arrest most of them, just like what happened with Governor Fitial. WE are repeating History Voters, as I taught to my students and I have often said to readers that “if WE don’t learn the lessons taught to us by history, then we are doomed to continue making the SAME mistakes.” It is the same mistakes of electing the same Republican Senators and Representatives who “protected & served the Governor, not the People. Just look at Tinian & Rota now on the fringes of being desolate islands with NO Economy. Voters on these islands continue down the same “Skullduggery Road with your Senators & Representatives” who will only put their careers on the line for the Governor, not YOU! I respectfully and humbly beg to ask the voters on these-two-islands to look-in-the-mirror and ask themselves WHEN was the last time their Republican Senators and Representatives actually FOUGHT for something on their island.
I’m sure these voters will be hard-pressed to think of anything because there is virtually NOTHING on your islands that can be considered as PROGRESS in the past decade or more! Your two islands may OWN the Senate but your Senators are working FOR the Governor, not YOU! These two islands are actually helping Republicans hold the entire CNMI hostage with their Senators who refused to act on Bills that will help your islands and your people as they helped to KILLED your casinos. Just think about how they trashed the Legislation for NMDs to receive Interest Payments from MPLT, which is virtually for EVERYONE on Tinian & Rota but the Senate President has trashed the Bill because it came from a Democrat and they won’t get the credit. The same ugly Political fighting FOR the Governor & Party over the People that they are doing with the Impeachment. The money for the NMDs is just sitting there doing NOTHING yet only the Governor can get money from MPLT. So please wake-up NMD Voters, especially on Tinian and Luta, as I’m not the enemy and in fact, I LOVE your people & your islands!
As for Sen. Karl R. King-Nabors of Tinian being over the Trial, it has been said that he is not the smartest nor the best to be over the Trial as a new Senator, but indeed the worse as it seems clear he is just doing as he is told in a blind-eyed loyalty effort to appease his fellow Republicans and the Governor with NO respect or regards for our Laws and the people who hired him. But Voters don’t get all worked up over the skullduggery in the Senate that can only be fixed in the voting booth because it should be clear that ALL-of-THEM are figuratively Dead Poli-tricking-Politicians Walking — it’s just a matter of time that is truly on your side voters. So Voters please do the RIGHT THING for YOUR Commonwealth, not personal & family intentions as it should be obvious on all the islands that WE the People need NEW & BETTER Government. WE must Poli-trick the Poli-trickers in the voting booth come Judgment Day. To be continued: One people One Direction.
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 M. Bennett
