Talk is cheap: Part I

I read the letter about the Democrats having some problems but what the author didn’t know was I just recently joined the Democratic Party and the first thing I did was to review and help them with finalizing their platform. The document he read had been put together back in April and I will be the first to say the author was within his right to interpret the Democrat’s gubernatorial talking points. However, if not contextually explained it could easily be perceived as prejudice, but that was not the intent nor was it their platform. So the assessment of the flyer is a bit too late as it is no longer being used and the official platform will be released any day now in a formal setting with the media.

One of the main reasons I joined and offered to help the Democratic Party is because they are not prejudice and they have a real plan to fix our economy. It was obvious they wanted to assert protection of their cultural beliefs and traditions, which may have offended some people. However, protecting cultural identity and desiring to continue practicing traditions is not prejudice, but it is wrong to label the entire party as being prejudiced, based on a flyer. For the first time in years we have a party that will truly listen to and respect the people even though they may have been a bit overzealous in their concern for the welfare of the local people in their flyer. But you really can’t blame them to some degree given what has happened in their history and what they witnessed in Hawaii and Guam. There is nothing wrong with the Democrats placing local youths and jobs before the status of CWs? There is nothing wrong with Democrats wanting to guarantee local political sovereignty—it is not prejudice or discriminatory?  It must also be understood and even appreciated that someone must look out for the NMDs interest, so if not the Democrats then who? None of the other three gubernatorial candidates have said a single word about the welfare of the NMDs and only the Democratic Party candidates are showing true fortitude for the local people.

My concern is who the author feels is truly worthy of being the next governor, given the author’s admonishment that the GOP, the Democrats and the two independents are nearly the same? So if we follow his thinking, no one deserves to be governor, which we know can’t happen. The Democrats are not what you think they are as you may have interpreted in the flyer because if they were truly racist readers know I would not be helping them. I can tell this author is excited and really wants to bite and bark and any and everything to make a difference in the CNMI just like I did when I first started writing letters. But I know it takes more than writing letters about all the problems in the papers to fix our problems as talk is cheap but action changes things. So I would like to extend an invitation to the author to join us and help the Democrats to meet his expectation because that is what I did and the Democrats are going to fix the CNMI if elected. So please think about putting some efforts behind your mouth and start walking your talk because talk is cheap and opinions are like rear ends, we all have one.

The Democratic Party is taking on new challenges and offering new alternative solutions that have never been addressed by the present or previous administrations. 

I hope this author is wise enough to know that a lot of people are waiting and even want us to bump heads and attack each other for their own entertainment. But the best thing we can do for the Commonwealth is to join forces and help the Democrats to cure our sick democracy as we both want the same thing for the CNMI: good accountable government, economic prosperity and equality for all citizens.

Ambrose M Bennett
Kagman, Saipan