P stands for Pee too!

Interesting how P magazine, which is being published out of California, has taken the editorial policy to support the Babauta-Benavente administration. It claims this and the other paper have leanings that favor candidates other than the BB Guns. I take exception, therefore, with the editorial policy decision to go Yellowish Pee. I offer the following observations, specifically on Libra Mae Sparks’ less than sparkling diatribe in May 2005.

Ms. Sparks, a self-professed overnight expert on island issues, has told Dr. Jesus D. Camacho to “Keep It Shut.” Her rationales are all premised on pure speculation in not only being woefully shallow, but shamefully hollow as well.

She can’t even discern who is Congressman Tom DeLay or House Vice Speaker Tim Villagomez. She refers to them as senators. Woe! It’s what’s called in journalism “major error in fact.”

They accused Chumbai of being an outsider. This is colossal BB hypocrisy. My former Tribune staff and their patron Sedy Demesa are the outsiders backing BB. They are not registered to vote in the CNMI. They are from California. Who are they to be accusing Chumbai of being an outsider when he is of 100 percent of Chamorro ancestry and they are Pinoys? Eh, Ms. Sparks ought to taste her medicine by following her own advice: “Keep It Shut” too, yeah?

They are coming up with some rather bizarre fake names or pseudonyms. What are they afraid of? Chumbai is a real person backing up his position. Is this their version of yellow journalism, which is really nothing but yellow BB public relations and propaganda? Would this expenditure be included in BB’s donor list as required by law?

Babauta has no balls to personally attack his rivals. He is using Pee and BB Pacific Times to do his dirty work, whereas the rest have make their own ads and stand behind them. Pee is created for BB, not the people of the CNMI. It is there to advance the failed BB agenda and should be disregarded as nothing more than BB trash.

How do you justify the obvious lack of wealth and jobs creation since four years ago? How could Ms. Sparks ignore a $100 million increase over the last several years for salaries, as critically discussed in Michael Deleon Guerrero’s winning speech in the recent AG’s Cup competition? It’s a sentiment that fully represents young students and scholars who now question: What about our future, sir? Or how could Ms. Sparks even ignore the expenditure of over $3 million in a single year, wasted on travels by this administration to exotic places?

How could Ms. Sparks ignore the net effect of this administration’s decision to ignore its $18 million utility bill to CUC? Is it fair that all consumers—badly beaten by the worsening bad times—pay for Ms. Sparks’ governor whose decision has sent many scrambling to juggle family pocketbooks beyond their means? Evidently, if you’re not a NAP recipient, you’re basically dead in the sea of debts.

If purposeful ignorance is an option or a convenient political tool as to ignore facts, then Pee magazine has successfully contributed to a new form of journalism, Yellow Pee. Its life span will be woefully short. Ms. Sparks, fair is fair and I too admit that there are certain undertakings by this administration that are well and good. I wish to help some four years ago even as an ardent detractor for one dollar a year. But they can’t see me way down in the pits for they were plying the golden skies of paradise every half and full moon.

John S. DelRosario, Jr.
Koblerville