“We Can Do Better”
Gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Mapp, supporters send clear message at Agriculture and Food Fair
A sea of blue t-shirts declaring "We Can Do Better" clad some 300 supporters of gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Mapp (front in blue plaid shirt) as they prepared for their arrival at the St. Croix Agriculture and Food Fair Saturday.
Kenneth Mapp and about 300 avid supporters made a dramatic entrance through the front gate of the St. Croix Agriculture and Food Fair Saturday and their message to the large crowd assembled was clear.
“We Can Do Better,” gubernatorial candidate Mapp’s campaign slogan, was emblazoned on the royal blue wave of t-shirts worn by the group.
Mapp greets a supporter during Saturday's festivities.
Mapp and his supporters mingled throughout the large crowd attending the fair and “the energy is high,” one supporter said. “The slogan says it all – we are tired of this current administration and we can do better.”
Mapp has not yet announced a running mate.
Mapp supporters were clearly visible at Saturday's fair activities.
All of our potential elected officials need to take drug tests and have background checks done and results published to the public BEFORE the elections.
Wonder how many would be able to pass both tests?
Also, FULL financial disclosures as stipulated BY LAW, Act 1105. You hearing AG Frazier and John Abrahamson? How about DOING YOUR JOB and adhering to the LAWS and not holding out your hands NOT TO??????
@ unreal 12:58 PM
Are you Ok? You seem to be having a bit of a break down . In all seriousness. Even though I support Mapp and you don’t ,your input to the forum is important and should still be heard. There will be times where there is snappish post or exchanges between supporters of the different candidates. If there were not an issue to debate on ,or a side to choose, no one would be (this blog ) here. The exchanges do spur discussion on important topic’s. Brush of those bad vibes ,and continue to post your candidates strong points and accomplishments.
No. Tell us about this mapp & schuster dilema?
If ‘Unreal’ is in fact Ms. Verdel Petersen like some of the bloggers have indicated. Placing politics aside, I would ask that this individual, whomever it may be. Please rest for a bit and take care of themselves.
I am in no indication trying to be rude or mean. However, I am truly concerned for you by reading your post. Reading in between the lines, they are a tad bit scary. Please, take no offense to this comment. As I am sincerely worried.
@ Anonymous 2:09
What the Heck are you talking about?
Mapp must be doing something right. This thread is only over 800 posts and counting……
Government Watch yes I agree with you we get caught up with people with no values like usie sexual harrasment case he wants a kiss ,the james senator neville the houseman and gambler and ex Lt.Gov who use government to promote his business who use the people even duo his ancestors are part from babardos what super native bull s__t. PEople please stop letting these false locals fool you a bunch hypocrites.
Mapp supporters,
Be careful what you wish for. You say you want a Governor with moral and values. Then why are you supporting Ken Mapp?
@ unreal
That is exactly what we are going to do which means JdeJ must go (in the Primary). He doesn’t deserve to run in this election.By September The Wolf should be indicted and on his way to Wallensridge.
@ Unreal
Please Please find the document that proved that Mapp called his people beggars.
After Hurricane Marilyn, the island of St. Thomas was severally damaged, grocery stores, power lines, homes, and business all destroyed. St. Croix got water damage and minor power line damages. We were back to normal in a few days while St. Thomas needed longer than a year. When federal help was coming in, because St. Croix had far less damages than St. Thomas and St. John all the resources were directed to their immediate needs. Stores were open on St. Croix and people were able to shop.
Let’s get to the right info. Mapp didn’t call the people of St. Croix beggar’s, but he suggested to us that since we were in better situation and had stores available for our convenience that we didn’t need food stamps. Some people may have gotten help on St. Croix because they were flooded out, but the majority of people were able to recover. I remember coming to Human services the day before the storm and people were there already looking for emergency assistance. My friends who work in the Food Stamps Office said that a line was already around the building the morning they came to work after the storm. Our people were still remembering the help they got after Hugo and was hoping for the same assistance, but we didn’t deserve it because our situation was not that bad.
People we like to encourage a welfare mentality in our citizens and when someone encourages us to do better, we are look down as doing something bad to our people.
@ Anon 4:29
Baby out of wedlock, domestic violence, are those good moral values?
Ginger,
You’re out of place. How and when did St Croix recover from Hurricane Marilyn? Can’t you see the fallen economy of St Croix? St Croix has never been able to catch itself since Hurricane Marilyn. So for you to try to jusify Mapp calling us Crucians beggars is wrong of you.
St Croix situation after Hurricane Marilyn was BAD and that can be proved by the fact that our economy still has not been able to recover.
You and Mapp need to take your lies elsewhere because I and I’m sure many others are not buying it. Ginger, either you are not from ST Croix or Mapp have offered you a high paid government job to write your crap.
@Anonymous 4:50pm,
Sodom and Gomorrah, An abomination in the Holy Bible and to God, is that good moral values?
Don’t throw stones when your entire house is made of glass.
@ Aon 4:52
Ginger is absolutely right. The recovery we are talking about food stamps could not help, but the people working to rebuild their home and community. We still live in a welfare mentality, which is encourage by people like you. In slavery days to keep the people ignorant they use people like you, because when you make people dependent on a system you encourage them to remain oblivious to becoming independent. We call this mental slavery, but I am proud to say that VI people are coming out of the oppression and waking up and getting educated in the realities of the self preservation.
dewolf thank you for waking up the masses to realize that we are not going to remain ignorant to the abuses of government officials. Your action with Mafoliegate has awaken the average citizen to stop allowing the abuses to continue.
Your right anonymous the lies got to stop.
Both Anonymous 5:13 and Ginger are wrong. Were you in St Croix during Hurricane Marilyn or where were you? Did you see the Anniversary special that aired on TV about Hurricane Marilyn? Did you see the extent of damage Marilyn did to St Croix.
You are harassing and ridiculing hard working people for wanting Food Stamp assistance during the time of a disater. News Flash: Food Assistance was set up to help working people when or if they fall on hard times.
What could be more difficult than a caaegory 5 Hurricne that practically destroyed peoples homes, business and the infrastructure of St Croix.
You and Mapp don’t get it. You speak about his Harvard degree and all of you act as if you are better than the very same people you are begging to vote for you.
MAPP is showing his true colors and he looks like DEJONGH.
If you don’t believe me read article below then checkout website for more details. St. Croix suffered considerably less damages,
Early Relief Efforts
In anticipation of their need, a number of FEMA disaster specialists had been sent to St. Thomas before Hurricane Marilyn’s landfall. By daybreak on September 16, relief supplies and personnel had already begun arriving (FEMA, 1995e). This was the first deployment of the new Federal Interagency/State Field Assessment Team designed to provide quick and technically accurate early damage assessments. According to their reports, St. Thomas received the heaviest impact – 80% of the homes were damaged, 40% were uninhabitable, and 20-30% of the businesses were destroyed (FEMA, 1995b, 1995c). Damage was somewhat less on St. John; considerably less on St. Croix and Puerto Rico. Phone service, power, and water systems were out of service on both St. Thomas and St. John. Damage details provided by this rapid assessment team enabled federal agencies to quickly determine priorities in the deployment of supplies and personnel.
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr82.html
Again another website to prove that I do research. I want anyone to challenge this issue with facts and not gossip and innuendo’s.
St. Croix was not as severely affected as St. Thomas or St. John. Nonetheless, according to FCS program specialist Bill Kluxen, his attempts–along with Jim Goodale, an FCS specialist in food stamp issuance systems–to arrive onsite were fraught with transportation complications. This included flights that left hours before their scheduled departure, planes which unexpectedly diverted to other islands, and the discovery that the battery in their rented car, parked in St. Thomas, had been stolen.
http://www.usda.gov/news/pubs/newslett/old/vol55no1/article2.htm
Tell me who lying now? Bam!
Unreal, we’re voting for who we want, not like you who waiting for Slavemaster DeJongh to tell you who to vote for. Change your name from Unreal to Waste of Time.
Anonymous 4:52
How come we haven’t recover and we were forgiven of the loan. Why do we continue to spread false information to the people.
FEMA forgives Marilyn loan
The territory secured some financial breathing room in October when the Federal Emergency Management Agency forgave a $185 million loan granted in the wake of Hurricane Marilyn in 1995.
The move reduced the government’s debt load by 20 percent and will help improve the territory’s bond rating. An improved bond rating – a reflection of the government’s financial health – means the territory could borrow money at lower interest rates, reducing the amount of taxpayer dollars that would have to be spent servicing interest on debt.
Yearly payments on the debt would have been approximately $22 million annually for a period of 10 years, or more than 3 percent of the territory’s $607 million budget for FY 2005.
The FEMA cancellation of the Marilyn loan follows a similar cancellation of a $46 million Hurricane Hugo loan at the end of 2001.