CIF Seeks Your Help To Construct Candidate Questionnaire
This election, Crucians In Focus will be distributing its own questionnaires to those seeking election – and we’d like your help constructing it.
First, we will address all candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, Senator and Senator at Large who will participate in the September 11 primary. Following the primary, we will submit an updated questionnaire to all remaining candidates.
All candidates will be given the opportunity to participate in the questionnaire exercise and we will publish all the responses that we receive.
This election is serious business, so we’re looking for serious questions. Think about the information you believe is really important for us to know. Think about the issues you believe have been neglected since the last election that affect your daily life.
Since we want the candidates to take the questionnaire seriously, we will not include any frivolous questions. Please submit questions on topics that will help us all evaluate fitness for office and commitment to the community.
And while some of the characteristics of effective public officials are the same, other points may be more critical to specific roles. So please let us know who your questions are for. Once again, for the first round, the categories are:
- Governor
- Lt. Governor
- Senator and
- Senator-At-Large
Please submit your suggestions through Comments by Friday, August 20. We will distribute on Monday, August 23 with a return deadline of August 30. CIF will publish responses exactly as they are submitted beginning Wednesday, September 1.
A list of the candidates for the Primary is attached.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
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The stimulus money that the VI that received from Washington D.C. has been used to complete road projects, such as Centerline Road. Yet, there are other projects, like the renovation of Fort Christian, that has been in the works years before the deJongh Adminstration that are incomplete. Can you give that status of the Fort Christian project and Brookman Road? When will these projects be completed?
Lorna Thomas is in charge of the renovation of Fort Christian.
What happen to the Voters mandate that the Senate be reduced?
Question to all voters.
Can you survive another 4 years of John deJongh and all the help he is giving you?
Are you better off now that John deJongh has brought his solutions to the table?
Will you be able to eat if you pay your electric bill, taxes etc?
There we nomandate for Senate reduction. It was only a non binding canvass. The question should have been, how should the senate change? The response would have been that the senate should cost less. If we went with the mandate, we would spending even more money with fewer senators. There was money for senate allotment reduction.
Imagine a VI with 5 senators in each island. Only 6 senators for anquorum and 4 to pass a bill.
Reducing the senate size with districting is employ for Stx East End to control the government. There would-be one sen frm f’sted one from mid island one fr east end.
Vegan, Reducing the size of the Senate is not the answer as we would end up with less proportional representation controlled by who draws up the district lines. Actually a better solution is to have more senators and just pay them less or have them even work,if they are truly devoted to better government for just a per diem amount. Meet less. talk less and deal with the budget an called into special session as may be required. By having a total commitment to island government all of the self praise and postulating of the professional politician would diminish rapidly. The people, not big money would have more say and that means great consensus building and less personal of them. Why in the world must the VI have the third highest paid reps under the US flag. Indeed a 15 million dollar budget for 100,000 people is just insane. Only problem is that the senators will never ever do what is right by reducing their size nor their take of the treasury. They like it so and there is no feasible way to change that. Referendum. recall, and initiative laws were enacted here so they will never work. In reality the VI senate creates many more problems then they ever solve because that is how the wish it to be. Without problems to solve their self importance would be a thing of the past.
Another possible answer is true municipal government with town councils dealing with the needs of their communities and then meeting once a year in plenary session to pass the budget. another option is to have no Senate at all, elect all the commissioners, the AG, and judges. The county commissioner system does indeed work. Town council systems work, and even a city manager hired by the council works. They perform do their job or they are gone. It’s as simple as all that. But we will never see it here because “we like it so”!
Herb, tell us something…how do you really feel about John P. de Jongh, Jr?
I would but I have to punch the time clock!
Very lame excuse Herb very lame!
how well do you understand the nature of the problems we face today as a community, when it comes to our troubled young people and the many challenges they face? (and if so, describe same briefly)
what solutions can you offer? what determining factors would you use to measure your level of success in this endeavor?
what specific qualifications do you have that would suggest you are capable of meeting the challenges confronting our society and its young people?
considering the fact that most of our young offenders sitting in jail or on their way to jail are in fact school drop-outs, what is your take on incarceration verses rehabilitation as it relates to our prison system?
what plan do you have in mind to address the many at-risk young people currently poised at different stages on the same road to self-destruction we’ve been witnessing in recent years?
Do you see any problems with the way we are educating our young? if so, what plan of action do you propose, as a meaningful solution?
can you share with us, a list of youth oriented organization in our community that you yourself have worked with, partnered with, consulted with, or even supported, in an endeavor to improve the quality of life for the young people and their families that these organization serve?
i have a lot more………………in due time! trj