Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Mar-Vic Cagurangan of the Marianas Variety reported that the gov walked out on the Legislature's 'summit' which he said 'lacks real hard issues and doesn't have a clear direction." Cagurangan also reports that he said that it would have been great and could have been successful in bringing people together if they wanted to accomplish something if it were done away from cameras and held the discussions amongst themselves.
Cagurangan interviewed Lt. Gov Moylan who didn't attend the 'summit' and suggested that the summit's goal-'to solve Guam's problems in 60 days-is an impossible mission.' In his letter to Speaker Mark Forbes, R-Sinajana, Moylan said the issues identified in the summit agenda “will require more than the remainder of the year to solve and will demand fiscal discipline in the many years ahead.”
“And while it will entail legislation that would insure that desperately needed spending controls are in place to manage limited resources, such measures will also need the patience and understanding of the community at large,” he added.
The summit, organized by Forbes, was attended by senators, cabinet officials, department and agency heads, activist leaders, and few representatives from the private sector including the business community and the media.
Forbes said the summit —which has grand agenda — aims at finding solutions to Guam’s problems in 60 days.
During the three-hour session, participants ironed out the agenda by identifying six issues that they said need to be addressed: government debts, education reforms, public safety improvement, healthcare funding, infrastructure development and decolonization and ancestral lands issue.
The governor sat through the summit for three hours, but quietly left the session hall amid the discussion on when the next summit should be held."
When I first heard about the leadership summit, I wondered what it was going to be about and who the 'leaders' were going to be....like, who was going to sit in a circle and pass around the talking stick...of course, the summit was being called for by the Speaker so I assumed he was going to be the holder of the stick and he would be the one who to assign the 'leaders' so, one leader, namely, Kaleo Moylan, opted out, and one Governor, gave him a chance, to see what this talking circle was about....but once the gov saw that all it was about was cameras and 'smoke and mirrors' and that nothing discussed was going to come to fruition within the next 60 days, he decided that he could spend his time better elsewhere. On the plus side, the Legislature can no longer say that he never ever came to their hallowed halls. On the minus side, he should have known better, what possible good, this late in the term can any summit do?
The summit would have been a wonderful idea....GOOD FOR MY PEOPLE OF GUAM, fix the pot holes, fix the broken water pipes, etc....if it had been called for the first months of this legislative term....not now, nine months before the election....who are we trying to kid?
Ya know, I usta have respect for a few of those senatos, until that time when they bin talking bout their fella senatos and their microphones were on and they were talking *hit about the other.....if they have that kinda respect for their colleagues, can ya imagine what kinda respect they have for us....the voters? We're just chopped liver to them dudes after they're sworn in?
This time, make your vote matter.....it does, it matters at GMH, GPD, GPSS, DPW, GWA, Public Health, DOC, EPA and everywhere else that your taxpayer dollars pay for!