Why Does Del. Donna Christensen Want To Raise Our Cost Of Living?
(The following commentary is a paid editorial by Vince Danet, Republican Candidate for US Delegate to Congress)
Vince Danet, Republican Candidate, US Delegate to Congress
No matter what your politics are, it’s clear that we are very dependent on oil in our economy. By voting for a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (directly against 2 court orders), our Virgin Islands Representative (Donna Christensen) has chosen to directly impact Gulf Coast residents and indirectly impact Virgin Islanders.
80% of WAPA’s budget is to pay the fuel bill. The LEAC in our electric bills directly impacts all VI residents as the price of oil rises. We already pay the highest price per kilowatt hour in the country. Fuel prices at the pump are creeping up towards the $4 level in St Thomas… St John residents pay more.
Banning drilling doesn’t hurt British Petroleum or any other oil company; they simply move the rigs elsewhere and Gulf Coast residents lose the work.
Ask yourself this as you pay higher prices for gas at the pump, along with higher WAPA bills: Can your personal budget survive a 6-month gap in gainful employment? This act by our VI Delegate is negatively impacting families here in the US Virgin Islands. Can we really afford this type of representation?
I’ve attached the tally sheet from the committee vote on this issue. Below is an excerpt from an article in Human Events:
“In a stunning turn of events late last week, a five-vote bloc of U.S. “non-voting” territorial delegates were the deciding votes blocking an amendment to kill the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) offered an amendment in the House Natural Resources Committee markup of the CLEAR Act that would have banned the moratorium that has already been thrown out twice by a U.S. federal court. The Obama administration has ignored the court orders issuing an additional ban.
The moratorium is currently wreaking havoc on the Gulf Coast economy.
The CLEAR Act is another of the myriad energy bills Democrats seek to ram through Congress as a result of the oil spill aftermath that have little to do with the spill and everything to do with their faux green energy power grab.
Cassidy’s amendment was killed by the “non-voting” members of the U.S. territories who have been granted the right to vote by the majority in any committee on which they serve.
These delegates represent territories of the United States whose constituencies are not U.S. citizens: Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. Natives of these territories pay no U.S. federal income taxes.
In 2007, Democrats granted these delegates the ability to vote on amendments on the floor of the House with the concession that the vote will be done over if their votes are the deciding factor.”
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@anon12:03
People would be more than foolish to vote for a Governor that spent $490k on his private residence for “security” and then tied his back gate closed with a string for 6 months. For all the hi-tech expensive security the people of the VI paid for, that same gate, now has a bicycle chain keeping it closed. The camera pointing at the gate can not tell you who hit the gate. LIES, LIES and more LIES. They lied to the people that built the gate and told them they had used an inferior product. Even though they knew all along who hit the gate. They cheap A$$e$ did not want to pay to have the gate repaired.
Alpine Energy in so much as it solves so many problems:
Closing Anguilla Dump and keeping our airport from further sanctions
Provide for the use of an on island fuel both RDF and Pet Coke
Providing a mid island electrical substation thus improving distribution efficiency and reduction of line loss,
Eventual closing down of Richmond power station which is in a residential zone. Now that is one good deal for the people.
Now wasn’t Southland Gaming the work of former STT Senator Ivor Stridiron and the Turnbull administration? I don’t follow Beyonce but I do know that the property tax issue was never determined by Governor deJongh. Unless you consider him so powerful he can run the Federal Courts.
Herb you are very dangerous to de Jongh. If you were smart I would think you were really against him based on the sly manner you continue to trow him under the bus.
The Federal Courts demanded that John de Jongh release the property tax bill and he refused to and decided to appeal the decision in which he LOST the case AGAIN. The property tax issue is the fault of !ohn de Jongh abd no one else. He was the one that spitefully with held the taxes knowing that people will not be able afford to afford to pay all the property tax bills at once. He has been scheming to take Virgin Islnaders land and sell it through his Company CHILLMARK to a collection agency.
Herb you are just as evil as de Jongh because you know fully well that de Jongh has dogged and betrayed the USVI and yet you still defend him because you are getting a piece of his pie.
@Herb,
The Turnbull Administration was bad, however; the John de Jongh Administration is PURE HELL.
The good thing is that Turnbull is not up for re-election. The bad thing is that John de Jongh is.
We dont have to compare what Turnbull did during his term in office, it’s irrelevant. What we are concerned with are the obvious failures and corruption of John de Jongh in the past 3 1/2 years.
John de Jongh is a huge failure and disappointment and he will not get 4 more years to turn the VI into a 3rd World Country.
Herb regarding Southland Gaming……….don’t forget Paul Flemming, David Jones, Arturo Watlington and least but not last the one senator who pushed and pushed for VLT’s…..Dowe!
As far as Alpine goes, it needs to go. Senators, PSC, Hugo, May, all need to pay back their pay-offs to Alpine. Let Alpine go back under the rock where they came from.
The whole company is a fraud from it’s inception…..consultants all making huge money to do something THEY NEVER DID BEFORE. Shame on us for attracting trash to pull one over one us AGAIN.
@HELP US! “Do something that they have never done before” and let me get this right: Are you suggesting that Neil Armstrong and NASA’s lunar landing should not have taken place because they “have never done (this) before.” If so you quest for a better tomorrow is clouded by the think of a Neanderthal. Alpine Energy is under a performance contract that was awarded base on the evaluation of a dozen or more proposals. They won under the laws of the Virgin Islands and are required to perform as they must. Now some of the elite would like the islands covered with hundreds of huge propellers scaring our green hill tops from east to west or have unreliable solar panels struggling to produce base lad power which neither can not do.
We had a chance decades ago to solve many power and power cost problems with Southern Energy providing the production. Oh no! The politicians turned against Southern by inflaming public opinion.
So every time you pay your huge power bill with all those cost added on….think of those senators who prevented Southern Energy from even allowing a pilot project to get underway in the VI. Remember to “support your own” is what they said…..now you have been paying for this belief for years and will be continuing to pay for this lack of wisdom….so don’t blame governor deJongh on this one. Just ask there opponents for a better and verifiable alternative…and it ain’t hundreds of 300 foot high props going “whap whap whap whap whap” all day and night long…and when a small tropical storm approaches, let alone a Hurricane these noise generating beasties will have to come down and placed in storage. Were does the power come from then?
Why does Herb get to blog during taxpayer time? Under the watchful eyes of John deTyrant? If he were blogging against deJongh, he would be gone at 3:28pm. This tells you that Herb is compromised. He is a pawn of the administration, even with his Republican moniker.
Nothing else you say matters, Herb. It never did.
Herb should be removed from his job. He claims he is going into ritirement but somehow I doubt it. His blogs on CIF proves that he is not doing the governments work yet is being paid by government funds.
How can all of you be sure it is “THE” Herb Schoenbaum that is posting? Because he says so and expresses views in the same manner?
The court gave Francis the right to collect at 98′rate. Get it right
We recognize Herb’s imperialist, narcissistic, Eurocentric rants like a forensic writing deciphered. And Herb is egotistic enough to lay claim.
By the way, bringing back the ’70s means bringing back apartheid. Nuf said.
@Vegan,
we now know that Bring Back the 70s was never a Mapp supporter but is infact a de Jongh supporter. Notice how ‘it’ never says 1 negative thing about !ohn but ‘claims’ to want de Jongh gone.
We will now treat this imposter as such. My apologies to Mr. Mapp for not seeing this imposters true identity much sooner.
@ Aono 8:28
Vegan cut yo bull and stop having a conversation with yo self. Everyone know that you are a Mapp supporter. Mapp is going nowhere in 2010 but back to Florida.
St. Croix is not for Mapp, St. Thomas is not for Mapp, St. John is not for Mapp, not even Water Islands is for Mapp.
Mapp the Virgin Islands is not for yo!
Yo gon find out real soon we nah fo yo and stuck up SICKO!
FYI, Vegan is a Mapp Supporter. Bring Back the 70s acted like it was a Mapp supporter but truly supports de Jongh. Read the blogs.
If most of you use such deduction, then no wonder we’re in the state we’re in. I don’t waste time bashing DeJongh because this site is dedicated to being anti-deJongh. Why beat a dead horse by brining up Mafoligate, property taxes, and the fact that our health and school systems have not improved under his watch. I could go on, but it gets tiresome.
And it really matters not how I’m “treated” here. My views are my views.
So you are sooooo intelligent that you instead bash the only candidate that has the ability to get rid of him? You’re more foolish than I thought.
Yep.