{"id":358595,"date":"2021-12-29T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=358595"},"modified":"2021-12-29T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:05:21","slug":"open-letter-to-house-speaker-villagomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/open-letter-to-house-speaker-villagomez\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to House Speaker Villagomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Speaker: <\/p>\n<p>I write this letter to ask you and the Democrat-led House of Representative: Why did you people reject the hardworking governor&#8217;s request to give retirees their bonus?<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have said repeatedly that they represent the people&#8217;s interest. Whose interest are you guys representing when you did not allow the governor to give us our bonus? We, the retirees, are asking you and the Democrat-led Legislature to allow our hardworking governor to give us our bonus. We need our bonus, Mr. Speaker. <\/p>\n<p>It is apparent that impeaching the governor is more important for you guys than assisting the retirees and the people of the CNMI. Let me remind you that even Judge Tydingco-Gatewood has expressed how pleased she is with how our governor has protected the retirees. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Duenas <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Afetnas, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Speaker: I write this letter to ask you and the Democrat-led House of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":331235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358595","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=358595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}