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“Crazy”
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Posted on Nov 16 1999
The awkward headline in this newspaper yesterday should have been revised. Instead of reading, “Lang: Gubernatorial elections should require a ‘psycho’ test,” the headline should have more accurately read as follows: “Lang admits that he’s crazy.”
As the opening paragraph of the story reads, “Anybody who will aspire to run for governor in year 2001 should take a psychological test, former Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio said Friday.”
So why is former Governor Froilan Cruz Tenorio so intent on running? Is he crazy or something?
As Lang himself stated, “In two years, this government is going to be bankrupt. The government will have a deficit of probably $150 million . . . and it’s going to be hard for the next governor to take over.
“I would say that anybody running for governor in 2001 should be examined in his head because something is wrong with that guy to be running,” Froilan added.
And yet when asked whether he will run for governor again, Froilan freely admitted that, emboldened by Ramon Kumoi’s victory over Morgen, it remains “a good possibility” that he will make another go of it.
What gives?
Froilan said that anybody willing to run for governor in the year 2001 should have his head properly examined: because he would have to be crazy to want to do it. But Froilan still wants to run. Is he trying to tell us that he is crazy?
It is not a complicated conclusion. We are dealing with a very simple syllogism here:
Premise 1.) Anybody who wants to run for governor has to be completely out of his mind (crazy).
Premise 2.) Froilan Tenorio want to run for governor.
Therefore, (3), Froilan Tenorio must be crazy.
What’s the point of all this craziness? Could former Governor Froilan Tenorio be trying to intimidate other gubernatorial candidates by suggesting that he is crazier than they will ever be, so they shouldn’t dare bother running up against him–’Crazy Lang,’ the craziest of all possible candidates?
Yes, Lang is crazy, all right. He is just crazy about the Northern Marianas.
So am I . . . and that’s why I will be so looking forward to his candidacy in 2001.
Go for it, Lang. Let’s all get crazy about the Northern Marianas.
