Well now, that was quite the tiring, tumultuous and bruising competition for governor, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Bearing in mind and taking to heart that I shoulder, in some small way, a legitimate part of the blame for the elevation of the temperature and fervor of political rhetoric during the election, I accept responsibility for my actions yet don\u2019t offer any apologies as all I wrote was what I saw to be honest, true, and readily apparent. I publicly echoed what the majority of others were already thinking and feeling.<\/p>\n
To those on the other side, I offer my hand as a neighbor and fellow resident: let\u2019s let bygones be bygones and work together\u2014independents, Democrats and Republicans\u2014to forge a better Commonwealth for us all. That\u2019s not just rhetoric; it\u2019s a real invitation as we all have to live together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To Tina and Leila, thank you for your contributions, forward vision, and hard work. You both quickly and effectively turned a political setback into a winning advantage. You helped change CNMI history for the better. I salute you both.<\/p>\n
To everyone who voted in both elections, you did your duty. There\u2019s a lot to be proud of here: no election violence, intimidation or shenanigans, poll workers did a great job and the system worked.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the soon-to-be governor-elect Palacios and lt. governor-elect Apatang. Now comes the even harder and more arduous task of governing but I have faith in you, as do the people of the CNMI. I\u2019m wishing you nothing but success. You can do it! We can do it, together!<\/p>\n
One last piece of advice for Ralph:\u00a0Don\u2019t let the door hit you on the way out.<\/p>\n
Mark Farmer\u00a0<\/strong> Well now, that was quite the tiring, tumultuous and bruising competition for governor, wasn\u2019t it?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":328594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380451","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\/380451","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=380451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGarapan, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"