Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Long after the break up of the Camacho-Moylan team, one wonders why the two could never get back together for 'the sake of the people', (you know, as married people- for the sake of the kids)
When Carl Gutierrez fired Kin Perez, Auntie Maddy's COS, she took the high road (for the sake of the people and the democratic party and pretended to remain friends forever....at least in public. They attended events together and did all sorts of things together---as governor and lt. governors are supposed to do....privately, (actually, most people knew every detail) the gov's staff hated the lt.'s staff and vice-versa) but the government ran and ran and ran...or, is that supposed to be 'operated'.
Okay, when Camacho fired Moylan's Bertha Duenas, Moylan's director of the state clearing house, or whatever her title was, the fight was permanent and there was no saving the relationship for God or the people.....and just as those before them....the staff of each, can't stand the staff of the other....and the government hobbles and people in D.C. laugh at the people of Guam that the two leaders behave like little 2nd graders.(insult to second graders)
So......after I watched Gutierrez and Cruz walk over to the Underwood camp last night, I (am so naive) thought that maybe, just maybe, Mr. Moylan and Mr.(I think I'm democrat-no, I'm a republican,-no, I'm a democrat)Francis Santos would at least pick up a cell phone and concede, at least to look good to those watching t.v.....to the public......no way, jose!!!!What would Jesus do you ask? Jesus wasn't a republican......
So, instead of conceding, Mr. Moylan said something mundane and thanked those at UOG and I began then to wonder where I had parked my car....I imagined that maybe Felix had asked to be forgiven for whatever it was that caused the problem and there was no forgiveness forthcoming....at least not in this lifetime.....and last night, it was obvious who the 'un-forgiver' was.(in my humble opinion, of course!)
There is really no room in one's heart for bitterness, no matter how
great the assault to our pride, which I think is what happened when Camacho fired Duenas and refused to allow Moylan to rehire her. After the actions shown this morning, I'm sure that there was never the effort to quietly sit down with Felix to discuss best they could salvage their friendship, the administration and Duenas' job. At least as long as Moylan was being unforgiving and bitter. The administration could have done wonders for this island because both Camacho and Moylan are smart men, but this is water way past the bridge. I hope that leaders learn from their mistake and I hope that we learn that as long as we have bitterness in our heart for what others have done to injure or pride(also known as egos), that we have given our very power to those people until the very day that we have forgiven them and have let go of that excess baggage.
So many of us allow what's happened in the past to determine our future.
So I'm guessing that tonight's meeting at the M/S headquarters is about how they're going to bring the votes of their supporters to the U/A ballots.......Underwood's sitting in the catbird seat....ain't he the lucky one?