{"id":184070,"date":"2014-11-06T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=184070"},"modified":"2014-11-06T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:39","slug":"political-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/political-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Political stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just flew back in from Guam, ran home for a couple of minutes and then straight to the polls. It was pretty great because I also ran into some great candidates who are also great friends.<\/p>\n<p>The minute I finished voting, I walked across the road to say \u201chi\u201d and I saw a couple of friends with tears in their eyes and I asked what was wrong and they looked at me smiling and they said, \u201cYou\u2019re walking.\u201d I turned to them, smiled, and said, \u201cNow all I\u2019ve got to do is get on \u2018Dancing with the Stars!\u2019\u201d It was a beautiful moment, laughing with them.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few elections, they needed to come to the house so that I can exercise this great right to \u201cchoose\u201d who we think can best represent what is best for the wonderful people of our paradise. So for the first time in a long time, I \u201cwalked in\u201d to the voting booth and chose who I know will best represent us.<\/p>\n<p>The one guy who I\u2019ve wanted to see for a long time was Kilili. It was bittersweet because I found out that he has back problems himself, which is painful, to say the least. But the one thing I know about Greg is he could be bedridden but that won\u2019t stop him from taking great care of representing us and our interests in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true about Eloy. This man is unstoppable! Once he starts something, he won\u2019t quit until the job is done. He is truly a great man and a great governor. I am proud and honored to know him. He is my friend, former boss, uncle, mentor, etc. We have a little joke between us and that he is \u201cworfted it\u201d! It\u2019s a great privilege to have him in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Now that there will be some changes at the House and Senate, it\u2019s the perfect time to start lobbying for medicinal marihoochi. Why, you may be asking yourselves. The answer is \u201cbecause it works\u201d! Trust me on this because I know it works.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a federal office that that handles Medicare and Medicaid and they put everyone on notice that the federal government will no longer help subsidize co-payments for any drugs containing any sort of cannabinol and\/or THC. There\u2019s this drug called \u201cMarinal\u201d that I used to get and it worked great for me because it gave me the munchies!<\/p>\n<p>One of the symptoms of my stupid disease is anorexia. I\u2019ve got to force myself to eat, literally! I\u2019ve been hospitalized a few times for \u201csevere dehydration\u201d because I have no appetite. Smoking it works and it\u2019s great and all that but, in all honesty, it hurts. It hurts because I always get the good stuff and the good stuff makes me cough, which hurts my back. So for now, no choice because the pills are very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, Guam! I truly hope that your initiative passes!<\/p>\n<p>And Biba CNMI! This election is just a preview of the runoff, which I think is a stupid but necessary law. There should have been a primary in the GOP because, let\u2019s face it: Eloy, Heinz, and Juan are Republicans.  Let\u2019s call a spade a spade! Let\u2019s stop all the backbiting and stick with the norm. Partisan politics! God bless you all and God bless the CNMI!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Geisinger<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Dandan, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just flew back in from Guam, ran home for a couple of minutes and then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141,51,65,186],"class_list":["post-184070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-gop","tag-guam","tag-house","tag-initiative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}