Best Sunshine International is nonpartisan and finds recent political ads linking them to this year\u2019s political fray to be \u201cfalse, misleading, and incompetent,\u201d according to president and CEO Mark Anthony Brown.<\/p>\n
In an interview yesterday, Brown was upset over two full-page ads in both newspapers tying them in claims against gubernatorial candidate Gov. Eloy Inos. <\/p>\n
One advertisement accused Inos of distributing the $10 million utility vouchers\u2014provided by BSI under a contracted Community Development Fund\u2014a day before the election to swing votes. The other ad, asking \u201cWho Benefits?\u201d, essentially claimed that BSI would pay no taxes for the next 40 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat group needs to explain to me why you are tying us to a certain side, when we\u2019ve not given one dollar, we haven\u2019t done anything. We don\u2019t care who wins really. We only care that the people whom they vote for, that\u2019s who we want to win. That\u2019s it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Brown said for someone to keep tying them to the political race is a \u201ctotal waste of money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis negative group\u2026what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want us to go home? Okay. What did you accomplish? Nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Brown said he does not know the group that\u2019s responsible for the ad and is not interested in meeting with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s total misrepresentation,\u201d he said of the ads. \u201cNo. 1, I don\u2019t know who they are, and No. 2, I couldn\u2019t care less who they are because they are obviously very incompetent and not very knowledgeable about whatever they are talking about. That\u2019s someone I don\u2019t really want to meet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown said BSI is \u201cdoing everything we possibly can\u201d for the people who live on these islands, citing the launch of their beautification program and the money that will be provided by BSI under their contracted Community Benefit Fund. <\/p>\n
Once construction work on the casino is underway, BSI is required to contribute $20 million to education, scholarships, infrastructure, healthcare, or employee retirement benefits.<\/p>\n
They are also required, after their first full year of operation, to put in $20 million a year for these community benefit programs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have something that\u2019s going to change this island for everyone, with jobs [and] infrastructure. It\u2019s going to be incredible for Saipan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The advertisements Brown was referring to came from the committee to elect Heinz Hofschneider and Ray Rumul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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