I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes when I read Henry U. Hofschneider\u2019s letter to the editor in yesterday\u2019s edition! He hit the nail right on the head! Best Sunshine\u2019s $10 million contribution to CUC benefits all, not some, as Heinz and Ray are claiming. And the best part of this letter is that he\u2019s endorsing IT, not his relative, Heinz. Why is that, I wonder?<\/p>\n
Was this a political ploy for the GOP to get more votes? No it wasn\u2019t, because everybody wins! This wasn\u2019t just for the voting public but for everybody\u2014American, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, etc. We all got a piece of this so thank you, Best Sunshine!<\/p>\n
Another thing that caught my attention was an article in last week\u2019s paper regarding claims by HY group that they won\u2019t resort to mudslinging and dirty politics. Just that statement alone contradicts itself because now, it\u2019s mudslinging in the form of an accusation from HY to IT. <\/p>\n
I especially loved the part where HY claims to be running a \u201dgrassroots campaign with a shoestring budget.\u201d Come on, man. Without naming names, we all know who\u2019s financing their campaign.<\/p>\n
I have to respect Juan Babauta\u2019s call for all his supporters to now endorse IT. I have never been a big fan of Babauta because time after time, he has shown his true colors of \u201clooking out for No. 1.\u201d But the one thing he hasn\u2019t done was change his party affiliation. I think that\u2019s admirable because he even requested a primary to be held. <\/p>\n
I, too, think there should\u2019ve been a primary because the way I see it, Eloy, Juan, and Heinz are all Republicans in their hearts. Running as an \u201cIndependent\u201d is taking the easy way out. Heinz and Ray are Republicans and should be true to themselves and their supporters but instead, they chose the easy way out because they know they would lose if a primary election was held. At least Babauta asked for a primary but for reasons unknown to me, the party decided against it. If HY would\u2019ve run as the Republicans they are, I\u2019m pretty sure the party would\u2019ve had no choice but to hold a primary and, judging from the outcome of the votes, they would\u2019ve definitely lost. Hell, they would\u2019ve been spanked.<\/p>\n
Another thing that irks me are the accusations that Eloy could\u2019ve and should\u2019ve done something to stop Ben\u2019s \u201cmid-life crisis.\u201d Who\u2019s he gonna complain to? Anybody with any authority to stop Ben, like maybe the AG, are all Fitial appointees! The truth is that all the rallies held to get Ben out of office were attended by Eloy. Eloy spoke to the public at all of these functions regarding all of Fitial\u2019s wrongdoings. And the public responded to Eloy\u2019s call to support with the ousting of Fitial from office.<\/p>\n
No mudslinging and dirty politics? You also harp on Eloy\u2019s illness. That, my friends, is what\u2019s known as a \u201clow blow.\u201d Wondering why Eloy is not seen at GOP functions? Yeah, it\u2019s an election year but that doesn\u2019t stop the governor from doing his job. He is always well-represented at these functions but he\u2019s got a job to do and, in my opinion, he\u2019s doing it to the best he can considering everything that\u2019s going on\u2014like trying to clean up the crap that he inherited from Ben.<\/p>\n
Eloy doesn\u2019t have the luxury of going to all the events and pocket meetings or going door-to-door like Heinz and Ray, shaking hands and kissing babies, and the biggest weapon in any candidate arsenal\u2014the ever-popular \u201cwave! Heinz and Ray don\u2019t have jobs right now so they can go and do all that\u2019s expected of a candidate running for public office.<\/p>\n
Get your facts straight guys and stop the last-minute low blows. That is definitely not one looks for in a \u201cclean election\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIT\u201d is absolutely \u201cWORTED IT\u201d!<\/p>\n
Michael Geisinger<\/strong> I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes when I read Henry U. Hofschneider\u2019s letter to the editor…<\/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":[20,141,422,223],"class_list":["post-185424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-budget","tag-gop","tag-it","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185424","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=185424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDandan, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"