No more

No more. If you are a resident of the CNMI, you have probably heard this phrase many times recently. No more money, no more gas, no more power. Thanks to the wonderful abilities of certain people in the CNMI to outstandingly mismanage funds where we need it most, we have almost no more of anything. We are like that kingdom in the Bible, which in its good years did not save anything for the drought to follow, and had to beg food from the kingdom that did. Nearly depleted funds have led to us having very little fuel and not having enough money to fix our outdated power plant, which in turn led to constant, frequent power outages. One might say it will all be over around mid-September, right? The only problem with that is the Agrekko deal only lasts 52 weeks. Leave it to the Governor to leave the Business Development Independence Bank’s offer of a 15-megawatt power plant hanging, while here we are on Saipan with a temporary lease on a plant, which we would pay for more monthly! And I thought that no one with the CNMI’s true interests in mind could refuse that offer! Oh well.

I recently learned that my teacher, Mr. John Davis of Marianas High School, was running for the congressional delegate position, and I will tell you, if you want a man with knowledge of the U.S. government and its many affairs, laws, and regulations, he is your man. After all, he is an Advanced Placement U.S. Government teacher. He teaches about the U.S. government for a living! He also teaches Advanced Placement Language Arts, therefore you can be sure he knows how to write and speak very proficiently. Another plus is that he has been residing in the CNMI for 22 years to date, and is very familiar with all of the hardships and issues the CNMI has had to face, not just from talking with his students about issues, but from experiencing them himself.

If you are one of those people who is tired of how politicians win by promising jobs, making and taking bribes, and favoring their relatives, I am confident that you would be glad to vote for John Davis, who is also tired of that and wants to “bring integrity into the federal office” and who wants “someone to fight for the CNMI, not for their own pocketbooks or prestige or glory.” So, for all the people who oppose the current way of our politicians, you know what to do; it’s not up to the Governor this time.