Stayman the scoundrel

We have a new name for Mr. Allen Stayman. From now on, Mr. Stayman will be known as “Stayman the scoundrel” in the Northern Marianas.

This is not mere name-calling, since a scoundrel is officially defined as “a mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.” Such a description fits Mr. Stayman’s character perfectly.

Consider the memo he wrote to Matt Angle, a former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), suggesting that U.S. Democrats “repudiate” former Governor Froilan C. Tenorio.

“Largely out of sight, there is a nominal Democrat, a Governor running for reelection, who scorns our President, who is in Washington this week playing footsie with the Republican House leadership, and who should be repudiated — in writing — by the Nation’s Democrats,” wrote Stayman the Scoundrel in an Oct. 6, 1997 memo, according to Roll Call.

According to the Saipan Tribune, “Stayman further suggested that the Democratic National Committee ‘should repudiate these scoundrels.’”

Exactly who are ‘these scoundrels’ Mr. Stayman refers to? Froilan Tenorio, of course–but not only the former governor: all of the indigenous people as well. That is, all of the indigenous people who refuse to be subjected to Mr. Scoundrel’s program of federalization; who refuse to be deprived of their local self-government and economic self-sufficiency; who refuse to tolerate the lies Mr. Stayman, Mr. North and their labor union cronies tell about our home islands.

Mr. Stayman is a scoundrel because he calls people who disagree with his politics “scoundrels”; because his radical leftist ideology clouds his objectivity and drives him to violate federal laws (the Hatch Act) with impunity.

Stayman is a bureaucratic federal bully who was out to destroy the CNMI’s reputation and anybody who defends it. Mr. Scoundrel was out to destroy our garment industry and ravage our economy–just to serve his politics. He knew about David North’s vicious campaign to unseat U.S. House Republicans all along–and yet he did absolutely nothing about it, probably because he was deeply involved in the anti-CNMI crusade himself.

Mr. Stayman is a scoundrel–“a mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.” That much is clear.