Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Love second seating brunches....that means the champagne has had time to work and talk is fast and loose....so are rumors. Okay, so it is said that if Kaleo-the male version of Mona Lisa-cuz he has that coy smile when he's asked if he's running and he knows he is but wants to be coy and won't answer-Moylan, is running for governor, then Eddie Baza Pepsi Calvo won't split up the republican party three ways to run. Me thinks splitting the party two ways is just as devastating but hey, since when do my two cent-opinions matter? So it's a big rumor that Mr. Calvo and Mr. Forbes won't be running no matter how many Calvo/Forbes stickers you see on cars on the road.
The other rumon of course is who the running mate of Mr. MoLisa-Moylan is going with and it's a rumor because no matter who's asking the question he dodges the question and talkes about beautification projects-said the rumor spreader-she after a mimosa or two....some George Santos, of course, she could have said Jesus Cruz, Jesus Castro or George Benavente since I have never heard of George Santos. She knows this George Santos and says that he's a nice dude and related to the guy that died in a police helicopter crash in Agana Heights some years ago...I remembered the crash, I didn't remember the people in the crash, just how sad the crash was on the families of those that lost their lives in it. I still don't know a George Santos or that there's even such a person but I pass his name on to you because it was linked to Kaleo's as a running mate for Adelup.
I wonder of course if Kaleo will choose someone who talks more than he does since Kaleo isn't known to talk much. Kaleo's more a 'doer' than a talker. He sits back and gets things done rather than talks about it so I assume that who ever it is that he chooses will be someone who'll be his sort of spokesman who'll be getting his message across. It will be interesting to see how he'll run his campaign. The campaign he and Felix ran had Felix doing most of the talking, but then again, Felix was running for governor and should have been doing the talking. I also feel that the team got a majority of the votes because they knew that Kaleo was all brains and no 'mouth' and was a 'doer' and not a talker and that he would work and do what he said he would do on the platform the two were running on...I have long forgotten that platform...I wonder what goal, if any, was achieved...
So dearhearts, in the donkey arena, you have two men over fifty years old seeking a job at Adelup where ghosts walk the hallowed halls at night after all have gone home.....in the arena of the elephant, you have two under fifty seeking that same office, two who, two years ago, promised the island that they would bring 'hope' to the island, that they would fix the problems, but in the end, the problem was between the two of them, a broken relationship that broke early on, never to be repaired again, two people, once friends, now barely civil. Kaleo who had so much promise, reduced to the task of the island's beautification. Will he be elected because he's an underdog?
The senior citizen arena has two retirees, one a retired governor, one a retired doctor of education/U.S. Delegate. I personally feel that when Underwood lost the election for Adelup, he should have 'paid his dues' by running for a seat at the funny house in Julale. I think he could have done much for the people here because of who he knows in D.C. and because he knows the machinations of how we can get things from Uncle Fed. This also would have opened him up to the 'masses' here. It would have made his name more 'household' and would have made this election easier because more people would have already known him rather than starting all over again, this time with a whole new running mate. But that's water under the bridge...so he starts all over again...it's been a long four years, I hope they still remember his name! His challenger is a former two-term governor. Both good for him...and bad for him...good because he made a lot of good friends and did a lot of good things for many people while in office.....bad for him because a lot of scandal happened to many of his key employees while he was governor, in fact, many are now in federal prison because of crimes they committed during his administration. He may not have done anything himself but he was very close to those that did and that proximity makes it all very questionable...On the former governor's plus side, are a throng of grassroot people that are diehard voters that follow him from one village hearing to another. These people will move heaven and earth to get him re-elected. Since this is a popularity vote, one will surmise that he which has more friends will get the prize. At this juncture, one has to say that the former governor has the most friends.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I learned at brunch today....and now, I shall sleep on it!