I was very glad to hear the governor reiterate what I have been saying to my critics: Stop throwing rocks from the boonies and the sidelines and become part of the solution. He even made an appeal for everyone with a good idea to present it to his office, which is a clear indicator of his intent to work with anyone regardless of their party affiliation in the best interest of the CNMI. I still remember the best principal I ever worked with, Juan L. Babauta, when we opened Kagman High under his leadership. In our first meeting he said to us, \u201cIf you have any concerns, please bring them to me but don\u2019t come crying and complaining to me without a solution to your concerns.\u201d I share this because the governor was right about the rock throwing, which I even used to be guilty of when I first started writing but I have learned it is far more productive to get on the team and be part of the solution even if you have to be a \u201cfree agent walk-on\u201d like I\u2019m trying to be with legalization and some other issues.<\/p>\n
We also have an excellent \u201cnon-political\u201d AG for legal and corruption concerns in government and \u201cflying rock\u201d letters will never fix anything because I know about rocks thrown at me and I\u2019m still standing tall and strong, so think about it the next time you want to throw a rock at the administration because rock throwing talk is cheap and it\u2019s definitely not a solution.<\/p>\n
The governor covered a lot of ground in his speech that I can\u2019t cover in this short letter but one thing for true that ran like a thread throughout the entire address was the governor\u2019s ability to \u201clook beyond the horizon\u201d on issues and see the direction that we should be headed on many issues. He is giving us a real chance to be one people, headed in one direction, to find real prosperity! \u00a0His address was well thought-out and extremely informative, demonstrating genuine leadership on where the CNMI came from, to where we are now and where he plans to take us. The governor is clearly taking us on a quest for prosperity in every way of life and business in the CNMI and we should all be thankful and supportive of his leadership.\u00a0 He also made it clear that \u201cif you are manipulating our laws and conducting criminal activity\u201d that we (the government and DPS) will get you. Right on!\u00a0<\/p>\n
I can honestly say, the future looks bright for the CNMI under Governor Torres\u2019 leadership and the American dream is alive and well in the CNMI. We can best serve our government and help ourselves by helping the governor instead of throwing rocks that don\u2019t serve any purpose but to cause delays from frivolous distractions. Flying rocks have never stopped much of anything, they just makes things slow down. While there is nothing wrong with genuine complaints about our government there are those who just throw rocks for the sake of throwing rocks\u2014sore losers playing dirty politics after the election. But I can\u2019t finish this without recognizing Mrs. Torres for her great job in revitalizing the role of the first lady and the governor for doing a great job. I hope he will continue to keep hope alive, for the American dream to be a reality for everyone living in our Commonwealth, so we can be great too!<\/p>\n
Ambrose M. Bennett<\/strong> I was very glad to hear the governor reiterate what I have been saying to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,35,8949,7442],"class_list":["post-249665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-cnmi","tag-dps","tag-governor-torres","tag-kagman-high"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249665","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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