{"id":236620,"date":"2016-09-16T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=236620"},"modified":"2016-09-16T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:00:06","slug":"calvo-throws-temper-tantrum-doesnt-get-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/calvo-throws-temper-tantrum-doesnt-get-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Calvo throws  temper-tantrum  when he doesn\u2019t  get what he wants\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236634\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BJ-Cruz-mug-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cruz\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236634\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Guam Vice speaker Benjamin J.F. Cruz issued the following statement in response to Gov. Eddie Calvo\u2019s reaction to the Bill 2 override.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere he goes again. Every time Gov. Calvo doesn\u2019t get what he wants, he throws a temper-tantrum, threatens furloughs, and says only he cares about the future of the people of Guam. Here is what he won\u2019t tell you: Bill 2\u2019s provisions will not go into effect until January of 2018. It has zero effect on Fiscal Year 2017\u2019s budget, and the retirement options we provide are entirely voluntary. If you like the DC plan, you can stay in it. If you don\u2019t want to pay one cent more than you already are, Bill 2 says you can keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz said the governor hated the Guam Legislature\u2019s plan but never offered one of his own. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he cursed the darkness, we worked for years to light a candle, and thousands of people now have a chance to retire with dignity because my colleagues acted so bravely. Please keep them in your thoughts and stand with them as they stood with you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the vice speaker said the only tragedy here is that an untold number of government retirees have already gone from the workforce to the welfare line because the government of Guam couldn\u2019t act fast enough. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Gov. Calvo wants to lecture anyone on fiscal responsibility, he should walk down the hall and ask the lieutenant governor why he signed a health insurance contract that will cost our taxpayers $21.6 million this year. If the Governor can\u2019t find the answer to that question, I\u2019m sure we can all point him in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call the Office of Vice Speaker Benjamin J.F. Cruz at #477-2520\/1. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014Guam Vice speaker Benjamin J.F. Cruz issued the following statement in response to Gov&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":236634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8979,13420,2613,67],"class_list":["post-236620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-eddie-calvo","tag-guam-guam-vice","tag-guam-legislature","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236620","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}