It was a superficial show of force that included key cabinet people during working hours when the GOP filed petitions for its slate of candidates.<\/p>\n
The troop knows there are serious issues with GOP unity. There was recently born two factions\u2014Raffy\u2019s GOP and old-time Republicans\u2014who could not come to terms on basic issues.<\/p>\n
The former wants to forcibly realign the GOP to set up the 2018 gubernatorial race. The latter wasn\u2019t too keen taking orders from the Raffy cabal. Unity flew out the back window forcing a new paradigm: To each his own!<\/p>\n
Coupled with voters\u2019 discontentment all over the NMI the recent show of \u201cfarce\u201d begins to take on the form of failed self-realization of its abysmal performance in what\u2019s known as \u201ctoxic\u201d republican charge. Or does it still have a warp view of its consistent failure to improve the livelihood of families Marianas-wide?<\/p>\n
Have you successfully improved family pocketbooks that have suffered salary stagnancy\u2014zero sum improvement\u2014over the last 20 years?<\/p>\n
The smiles are \u201cshow\u201d indeed that instantly turns into frowns akin to sharp pancreatic pain on a bad rainy day. A few have rejoined the old establishment including those recently ousted from office. In politics, once you slide into defeat you\u2019re history! The GOP isn\u2019t doing any better on Tinian and Rota either. Old, tired, and confused political trade horses would be released from pasture to look for feed elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The GOP\u2019s crumbing unity compliments and resonates well with voters\u2019 desire for something better than the establishment in power that has basically petered out. People\u2019s aspirations are placed front and center in the intensifying debate: Your big mouth as \u201cDo-Nothing\u201d versus family pocketbooks! <\/p>\n
How could the GOP put a believable spin to its woefully poor performance on this most vital issue? It could yell all it wants from its hollowed echo chamber no one wants to hear! <\/p>\n
Democrats are still organizing and struggling to understand the strange objects appearing on its radar screen. It\u2019s organizational clamor as it secures stronger footing, hopefully.<\/p>\n
Kilili joined them at the National Democratic Convention but ignored local Democrats. The latter was hoping that as a senior democrat Kilili would employ leadership to unite the troops. But answers to this and other associated issues could only be wrought from Kilili and party officers themselves. It\u2019s a decision that haunts democrats.<\/p>\n
Candidates who have bolted the old GOP establishment didn\u2019t just leave out of convenience. This is the group that has listened with empathy to voters\u2019 clamor for something better than empty declaration of \u201csolutions driven.\u201d Interesting how this has slowly faded in the last two years.<\/p>\n
The eventual legislative landscape presents a blurred view of what the Raffy GOP thought it had under its belt. It sets the path to political dooms day where \u201csolutions driven\u201d shifts to \u201cnice try!\u201d In brief, it\u2019s all history for the GOP except for the yelling.<\/p>\n
Tinian\u2019s economy on SOS<\/strong> The Alter City Group hasn\u2019t lifted a finger. It still has to secure various permits from local government agencies. Otherwise, the Nasarino Bay area it has leased for its casino project is collecting water from heavy squalls. Will it ever move beyond the PR work it has done?<\/p>\n Without the Dynasty, it means no revenues would be accruing into the local municipal government coffers for its operations. It translates into Payless Fridays for all its employees. <\/p>\n With the deepening mess, does it matter to the administration on imperial Capital Hill that bankruptcy is now the biggest ghostly beast staring down the local municipal government\u2019s face? <\/p>\n This is really bad for families who have bank obligations or who send money to their kids in college. It\u2019s a helluva Ninza Jungle Fighting bid for families.<\/p>\n With investments headed south, is there any alternative to reasonably revive the local economy? With Tinian\u2019s casino industry prepped to fail by the revival of the Saipan casino where then is the wisdom and benefits of instant gratification over the long-term sustainability of the local industry?<\/p>\n Is it hard understanding that the Saipan casino would flourish and expand exponentially, while Tinian tries to figure out a game as set by Sen. Francisco Borja and former senator Joaquin Borja votes? It happens when linear thinking fails critical analysis.<\/p>\n Jeffrey \u201cMentagua\u201d Borja thinks I should pay attention to the water problems on Saipan. Fine. But let\u2019s begin by your putting your mouth where your money is, sir! Twice, the Tinian Casino and Gaming Control Commission was handed Saipan taxpayers money to revive it. If you return this and other funds from our taxpayers here the water problems is easily solved. Sayu?<\/p>\n My point\u2014which you obviously misconstrued due to visionary deficit\u2014is the long-term survival of your local industry that matters not happy short-term gains that fizzle out over the long haul. It\u2019s called \u201cvision.\u201d Am I supposed to empathize for your lack of savoir-faire?<\/p>\n Mary Jane\u2019s future<\/strong> I\u2019ve read extensively on the medicinal benefits of marijuana including contrarian views. It means the issue is far from resolved where both sides would converge on a single position. And this is just the medicinal side of the discussion that is at best, inconclusive.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve seen in Guam, the issue goes to and fro in view of so many unanswered queries that beg for realistic answers. For instance, what are the prerequisites to secure clinic license equipped with laboratory? Who could plant MJ, what type of MJ is allowable, could any Tom, Dick, and Harry plant and sell to the clinic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a superficial show of force that included key cabinet people during working hours…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[256,141,934,1055],"class_list":["post-234126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-casino","tag-gop","tag-mj","tag-sixto-igisomar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234126","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTinian Dynasty is basically dead fish in the water after failing to reach an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on fines being sought in order to resume operations.<\/p>\n
\nSomeone asked why Sen. Sixto Igisomar wants to rush the marijuana measure into a plebiscite this November? I know that half the time Igisomar suffers from percipiency deficit. Appalled, I had to ask: So what else is new?<\/p>\n