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Democrats aim to right wrongs of GOP administration
The candidates of the Democratic Party of the NMI pose for a photo in their headquarters in Garapan following the announcement of their pledge to the people of the CNMI last Thursday. (KIMBERLY A. BAUTISTA)
The Democratic Party of the NMI announced their “pledge to the people” last Thursday that ultimately aims to right what is wrong with the Republican administration.
According to the Democratic Party candidates, the people of CNMI have not seen “real progress” under the current Republican administration and are not happy with what is going on in the Commonwealth under the current administration.
Precinct 2 Rep. Tina Sablan said as far as they know, in the last four years, the Commonwealth government deficit has grown.
She stated during the press conference that the Republican administration practiced “fiscal mismanagement” and “broke laws” with impunity and allowed a monopoly industry to violate CNMI laws and the license agreement multiple times without consequences, referring to the Casino.
“The people have been affected by deficit spending, mismanagement, poor governance, and unfair furloughs that violated employees’ rights. Ask the people if they are better off. Ask them what progress they see,” Sablan added.
Sablan alleges that the people of the CNMI are not happy and the Democrats seek to be the change.
“We want the kind of economy that lifts everybody, the progress that means something to the people we represent,” she said.
Precinct 5 House candidate Leila Staffler said the lack of transparency of the Republican administration makes it hard to determine if there really is any progress being made.
“Without transparency, it is very hard to see if there really is progress. The lack of accountability, makes it hard to measure the progress being made in the economy. But the math that we have right now [shows] we are in the negative,” she said
The Democratic Party of the NMI announced last week their official pledge promising change for the people of the CNMI if they are voted into office come November.
