Ambrose Bennett has it wrong

In your Aug. 12 letter to the Saipan Tribune, you state that this flyer is old. It was given to me on Aug. 7 by a Democratic Party official. It wasn’t a revision; it’s pretty close to a manifesto. Why do NMDs need protection? It’s protection from other, rich, unscrupulous NMDs, that’s what. They need an honest and transparent government that protects all of its citizens and whose leaders are not afraid to say Chamorro, Carolinian, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, haole, etc., instead of “Chamorro, Carolinian and other citizens.” We have a name just like you do. Get real, its 2014, not 1814.

Guam and Hawaii are immaterial to the CNMI. Six families own the CNMI and Calvos own Guam. It’s pure nonsense to think anything will change without the 3,000 nonvoting, registered voters, and the 3,000 to 4,000 unregistered voters, getting involved.

As far as your Democrats go, Mr. Guerrero introduced two bills, a basketball court and a road when he was in the 5th Legislature. Mr. Quitugua introduced 40 bills in the 13th. This ticket should be reversed but, since up to four Guerreros have been in every single House and Senate since 1978, that’s the only reason you have a Guerrero on the ticket. Has nothing to do with their qualifications, which in this case is not much.

Voters, stop putting ex-government officials back into office. It’s stupid. It’s these same guys that have kept the CNMI on a backward track since 1978. If you keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results, you are insane, not just crazy, you’re insane.

Mr. Bennett, I suggest you go to any hotel here and you will find young local people working in them. These kids are clean, neat, polite and eager. Anyone that goes looking for a job in dirty clothes, chewing betel nut, looking like they just woke up will not be hired, even to make up rooms.

I’m sorry but not one PSS graduate I’ve talked to is ready to be hired when they graduate. They may know fractions but they don’t know anything about the real world. The “culture” of the past 35 years of having slaves do all the menial work in the CNMI is going to be the one stumbling block, for Chamorro kids especially. They expect to walk into a hotel, or other business, and start in a position over CWs already working there. You have inbred this prejudice into them over the past 35 years.

Voters, go to www.cnmileg.com and check out every single current and ex-lawmaker’s record while they were in office. Vote for all women, anyone not from the government, and no one over 35 if you can find enough. Be informed for 2014. I’m 74 and I don’t get excited.

Gary DuBrall
Chalan Piao, Saipan