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Crucians In Focus, Inc. (CIF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, watchdog organization organized under the laws of the US Virgin Islands. CIF was formed to ensure that our elected officials are focused on issues of public policy concerning the US Virgin Islands, specifically as it affects residents on St. Croix. CIF monitors the activities of the Virgin Islands government and remains steadfast in alerting the public of any actions that go against the best interest of the people of the Virgin Islands. We are committed to an open, honest and transparent form of government. We welcome you on behalf of our President, Michael Springer, Jr.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am
That was good Mr Springer.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
So we’re supposed to take a retard like you seriously, you who couldn’t even crack the top 10 in a primary? Well this gives arrogance and stupidity a whole new definition. Mr.Springer, you ain’t got it fool. Go back in the corner and make that dunce cap fit like it will if you give it a real chance.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Dat was the bomb Crucians In focus, keep up the work.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:47 am
I just heard Senator Russell’s response. That wasn’t the bomb, that was nuclear.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 am
Yeh dude, now tell him respond to todays article in the avis playboy. who laugh last laugh deh best…..who’s laughing now.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Ronnie Rascal is a con artist. He has fooled those who think the government can pay their LEAC charge. The government owes WAPA and Hovensa already sells WAPA fuel oil at a 20% discount rate. The rascal does not even pay his grandmother’s WAPA bill or have her fed properly. The information about the rascal’s mistreatment of his o grandmother was reported by his uncle in the Sunday-Monday Avis. Who really has the anti-social personality?
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
You had my vote for a moment, HAD MY VOTE……you are a low BASTARD. Hope you loose.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Now I know why a raoch like Springer was humiliated in the primary. A pathetic uncle waits until 2 days before an election to reveal some sorry ass story about a mother he himself abandoned for decades and now we’re supposed to believe this poltical ploy? This lame attempt to discredit Ronnie still isn’t an answer for his ad about you Mr. Springer. Deny his charges. You can’t. I wonder if Repo and Rena(Ms. Avis) have anything in common? Hmmmm. Sorry Uncle Angel, ain’t gonna work. We’re supporting Senator Russell. Next time come with the goods earlier. Our minds are already made up. We categorically rejected Repo the Rumhead in September and we’re rejecting Rivera(Gonzalo too) in November.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Those people who support Ronnie Rascal need to be reminded that he voted for Act6905 and the Legislative Report by Generation Now shows he is an ineffective senator. I wonder where he got his law degree, since the bill he drafted called the WAPA Consumer Rescue Act was so flawed and contrary to the VI Code. He should have become a comedian, instead of a legislator. His comical antics never cease to amuse me.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
All that I can do is laugh at how “supposedly” local Crucians allow themselves to be manipulated by frauds over and over again. Repo the Rumhead is one of these idiots who will continue to be used by these failures from St. Elsewhere who are overnight success stories in paradise. God help us all.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
The truth about this fiasco will come out eventually.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Hey please don’t ever delete this sound bite from your website. This is remarkable!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Guess who is laughing now that it is official the rascal is out. The uncle’s letter must have been an effective election ploy. If Michael Springer played a role, why was the letter not printed prior to the primary? Perhaps, credit should be given to Roger Morgan. The uncle called Free Speech and he was very articulate and credible. The rascal’s son called but was too ashamed to identify himself to the uncle. The son was not credible and appeared to be incoherent.This is one Crucian who has not been duped by the rascal. He did not get my vote and he lost the election. We’ll probably hear him whining about the machines being rigged.I’m laughing at this moment as I think about his ridiculous comments about why his grandmother had to move.Are you laughing too?
November 28th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Well, Indigenous Virgin Islander, what blow you got, Senator Russell handle his lost like a man. He still has postive hopes and dreams for the Virgin Islands and I hope he keeps active and involved. He is a fine person who was undermind by low class individuals like you. Guess what he is an acomplish attorney and has a lucrative practice he can go back to he’s not going to be on the street peddling for money. It’s people like you that always trying to keep your own people down. Roger Morgan and people come to place like this because they can’t make it where they come from, but they fool people like you because you don’t know better. Roger Morgan has a goal to distroy and conquer. His talk show exposes the worst kind of individuals this community has to offer. People of his complexion feel that black people are still mentally inslaved as long as your white your right, but I am not fooled. I believe in my people and I hold them in high regards above the rest. Senator Russell will always have my support in whatever he chooses to take his political career. He is a committed Virgin Islander that has his people back and I am so proud to know that he was given an opportunity to serve. He was brave enouch to face the most hostile and evil forces within this community and continue to hold his integrity. I am greatful form his humble and generous conern for my people. He was right to offer us some relief through hard times that’s a sign that he is willing to go the extreme to protect his people from any undo hardships. By the way how come it was ok for the BVI Prime Minister to pay for half the electrical bill for their consumers in the month of December and it was wrong to suggest that the USVI do the same for us? Don’t we deserve some relief too?
November 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Let’s stick to debating issues and not waste time attacking individuals we don.t even know. Does it make any sense to compare the U.S.V.I. to an independent country? As long as a person has the necessary capital and a desire to succeed, the American dream can be realized in the territory. Roger Morgan chooses to live here;he is an American citizen and has the same rights as persons who were born here.I am not aware that he has a sinister plot to destroy and conquer, but apparently certain persons can read his mind. Remember Sen.Russell accused Morgan of trying to overthrow the government. This is hilarious to me.Morgan is not capable of harming a fly.Your paranoia is clouding your judgment. You are much too emotional and attached to Sen. Russell. I would not be surprise to learn you are related to the rascal. I am not afraid of Morgan or any white person living here.He is not a guru to me.Only my Creator has the power to influence my thoughts and behavior.I appreciate the fact that Morgan allows callers to express their opinions freely. Sen. Russell;however, wanted to take away our 1st and 4th amendment rights.Further, it was stupid of him to expect the government to pay the LEAC charge for all WAPA consumers. By the way, this would mean that Morgan, whom you appear to hate, would get this same deal.One heart, one love, let’s get together and feel alright.
November 29th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I guess that people dont know, but the individual that says to be the Senator’s son was only Mr. Hugh Clarke a monitor at the Alexander Henderson School. Who can he and the senator fool? Then he appears at the senators morning show and identifies himself as Hugh Clarke. Dumm, Dumm
November 29th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Please, Senator Russell is gone….his empty promises was proven to be just that, EMPTY with no substance. I truly wish the bar association would reprimand him for his insensitive behavior.
November 29th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Springer, your organization was awesome this election….we love Crucians In Focus. Rock On.
Williams Delight Massive
December 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Indigenous Virgin Islander, You kinda sound like your Roger Morgan himself? Anyway, it has nothing to do with an independent nation it has to do with taking care of your people. Election 2010 will show whether the Governor made the right choice to ignore the hardship his people endure. Around the community it sounds like he is toast.Getting back to your comments and in all honesty I am not related to Honorable Ronald Russell, but I am greatful for him and his service to the people of the V.I. Kevin Rames you shouldn’t talk you will sell your people out for the almighty dollar. I would wish you run for public office you would see how your people appreciate you? You can’t even light a candle to Russell your reputation among your people is in question. Do you live in a glass house? P.S. Wasn’t Roger Morgan who almost destroyed Mr. Pemberton on 1620 am radio station and accused him of attacking his wife? How we tend to forget about these things. Thank God Mr. P escape this situation without loosing his reputation. Now he wants to accuse our good Senator of trying to distroy him hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…………….!
December 1st, 2008 at 7:30 pm
When you begin to blog by your name we can then resume the conversation, until then church out.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
That’s OK you don’t need to know since my family is more important to me I wouldn’t give you the pleasure of destroying my reputation as did to our fellow crucian Sen, Russell.
How you would want to know! I am the kind of person that works behind the seen I don’t need public acknowledgement for anything I have done. My joy is see the faces of the less fortunate and disenfranchised happy and in a better place. I chose my profession to make a difference in someones life. I advocate to help those most deserving. I believe in my people I hold them in high regards and I dislike the attitude of any so call crucian that will publicly try to distroy his fellow man. Regardless of the circumstance we have to keep it fair and try not to drag us (the rest crucians) done in the process of drestroying another crucian reputation. We have to remember that this is a small community and their family members especially their parents who have work hard in this V.I. live here and among us. This is a unfair reflexion on them. So this is personal for me. I dislike us helping outsiders to destroy our crucian people, you don’t hear St. Thomians doing that do you? That’s the problem why we are going no way in this community. Let’s pick each other up and try to look at the other side of the picture. Who is going to look out for us? Deep in your heart you have the answer. Use this blog to encourage our Senators to step out of the box. Expand their knowledge and ideas to better this community. Rather than be couch critic let’s role up our sleeves and get out there and do something other than run our mouths to tear down.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Please excuse my spelling errors, I type too fast. I meant SCENE.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
Why hasn’t Senator Russell tack on an amendment to resend the raises before his final farewell yesterday? You seem not to be mindful of the crucial issues that stir such an outrage in the community in which Mr. Springer’s organization brought a lot of attention to (act6905). However you are busy trying to bring down Mr. Springer. Shame on you
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
That’s a dead issue because it’s not going to change the raises. The new senators can’t change it, so what difference does it make. It’s a done deal. Tell me what is your brilliant idea to repeal this law. Wow! you think by getting rid of these senators the raises will disappear? No the new senators will benefit and were back to square one.
What is my concern is how is your Governor going to help us through these hard economic times. Layoffs????????
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
Yes, it will send a stern message to them and those who are elected to serve in the future including Mr. Springer, that the electorate will hold ALL of our elected officials accountable for their irresponsible actions which isn’t consistent with the will of the people. You’ve witness democracy at it best.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
The stern message is you can’t have the money, but we will let someone else get a cut at it. Please it didn’t change anything other than stroking your ego so you can gloat about your so-call accountability on this issue. Yeah we all make mistakes time and time again, but we don’t drastically wipe the slate clean and get rid of our experience legislators while St. Thomas kept theirs and brought back one of them who by the way came back to benefit from that big raise.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Well come back I was fixing to begin to goggle to find your new blog site (lol), nonetheless we crucians have been known to clean house when our elected officials fails to comply with the electorate mandate which is to move these islands forward in the right direction. Economic recovery for the citizens of this territory and not just for themselves is what we desire.
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Cleaning house is not a good thing for us because we give up our experience senators and St. Thomas always get the upper hand on us. Our inexperience senators go to them for guidance and they take advatage of them. Yeah look at Senator White he alone have more years than our three most experience senators combine. He is the master spin doctor. Wow we wonder why St. Croix people are treated as the second class citizens in the VI.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Oh please…
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
That’s all you can say. It’s the truth but we tend to look the other way for our own personal vengence and not for the greater good. We start from scratch every two years while St. Thomas is ahead of the game. Oh please… don’t cut it.
December 11th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Crucian to me heart,you appear to be naive and not politically astute. Do you really think our government can pay for the LEAC of every consumer. Get real, the VI is not an independent nation like Tortola. Voting for the same senators maintain the status quo. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity. This is the reason Crucians clean slate more often than the electorate on St. Thomas. We only get the crumbs because our senators often do not look out for St. Croix. This time we got smarter and got rid of the rascals. You just don’t get it !
December 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
The last time I checked Tortola was part of the BRITISH Virgin Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_overseas_territories
December 14th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
http://www.demmansay.com the Christmas wish list coming to you.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Tortola is an oversea territory of the United Kingdom but it is no American paradise. If it is so wonderful, why is there not an exodus to this British island which uses U.S. currency. The people from Tortola do not enjoy the high standard of living like the American paradise. Again, where will our government get the funds to pay for everyone LEAC. Ultimately the people would be paying for their own LEAC by paying for higher property taxes. How is this a relief?
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 am
Rascal is out and the new senators have not said anything about an economic relief for the citizens. If the rascal care so much why is he not talking about his proposal on his Saturday show?
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 am
Indigenous Virgin Islander you don’t know what you want. You Praise High for Russell being thrown out now you complaining that he is not talking about his proposal on his show. WHY? He is in no place to make a difference. You took his powers away and now you want him to proform miracles as a regular citizen after you guys riped his reputation apart. Who do you think we are fools. You put the people you want in their let’s see what they have to propose. Since you are such a genious and have vision let’s see what you can offer. Nah!!!!!!!!!!!! You just like the rest a bag of hot air.