Playtime Is Over …
Playtime is over.
The false respite of Carnival is done.
While elected officials have been partying on our dime at the Festivities, we at CIF have taken a step back and the view is ominous – but not irreparable.
You may not realize it, but the depth and scope of national attention on the corruption in the Virgin Islands is reaching its zenith at the best possible time for the VI and the worst possible time for the Administration.
From the Delegate to the Governor to the Legislature to the Commissioners – all are now on the Federal radar screen and – unlike the VI – US politics in an election year has a long memory.
Just the activities that we know about in the past five years have put us in an extremely vicarious position – this increased and widespread scrutiny, the ongoing precariousness of the cover-over rum revenue, the now very real Hovensa closure, and no solid plan from anyone on how we’re going to address not just its labor implications but the ongoing energy emergency – leave us rife for outside intervention.
And lest we forget, Tuesday is May 1st – and the FY 2013 budget is due at the end of the month.
Sometimes when you don’t solve your own problems, someone will step in an solve them for you.
And just to be sure we document what we believe is the last time this crew thumbs its nose at the law, we’ve begun with this article what will be an ongoing archive of the Daily Caller stories and other sources that first broke the bribery allegations, and have grown into an ever expanding web of complicity that now includes questions about the Delegate’s campaign financing and even information from another source implicating Gov. deJongh in tampering with Federal contract awards.
Also starting today you will notice a tab at the top of the website, tagged “Daily Caller” where you can review all past and future stories chronicling these events.
Meanwhile, it’s time for us to get serious about what comes next – because we believe we’re going to need new leadership sooner than later.
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The Virgin Islands is being decimated by politically controlled economics which will bankrupt the Virgin Islands. Our political leaders have been using our tax dollars like it is their personal ATM.
How has our lives improved since Diageo? How many people have gone home because of the greed of the powers that be? Has our healthcare improved? What about the schools? How about electricity generation. Please anyone show me how floating these bonds and shacking our great-grands have help the progress of the VI today. Thanks
Well, the voters have elected a businessman. His perspective is that of a business perspective. His actions are not surprising; it was anticipated. The voters had been warned but ignored the warnings.
Maybe the next step will involve GERS. Maybe some of his friends in the investment world may convince him to convert GERS into a 403k type retirement tool where they can make big money on the serves, fees, and charges involved.
Remember, he had attempted to push the sale of WICO in a direction other than where Governor Farrelly wanted it.
The antecedent is usually a good indicator for the next move.
DeJongh is alleged to be a businessman. No Schedue C filed.
Those of you who believe Republicans are bad and Democrats are good obviously have blinders on. Both parties are corrupt. Democrats favor unions and the financial industry while republicans favor the wealthy and oil industry. Stop fooling yourselves. They all go where the money blows.
well anon 12:46 seeing as how republicans want to pass a law that reqires a woman to have a probe placed inside her for no medical reason if she wants an abortion id say its pretty hard for you to say blnders, my blinders come from republicans calling for the death of someone with no insurance at a deabte, or how about booing a decorated american solger at another, hard to be seen as good when you want to cut student aid, and even harder when you want to give the rich a bigger tax cut when even the rich are saying hey we will pay more.
nope your kind of good must be different than mine, no matter what you claim, you guys yell democrats tax and spend at america but you dont say we are better we want to borrow and spend. at least when you tax and spend then it cuts the interest we pay, its kind like a homeowner paying his taxes out of what he makes unlike borrowing agisnt his childrens paychecks to pay for it.
so it becomes a question of why dont the good republicans run? why dont they run at least say what they will do if they get elected ? if you go to mitt romneys web site he promises a return to the policys of gw bush, tax cuts for the rich, corperate substitys and deregulation of banking and investment, elimination of the epa and student aid. all in all id say thats not really realaistic to claim as good for the people of america. so yea democrts are flawed but they simply dont scare me as much as the republicans do.id rather have to pay for my health care than have to pay for everyones via my taxes and hospital bills.
Rainman, stick to the facts and stop spreading lies. The RNC has never made the proposal that you refer to. That was an isolated incident in a state, not a national policy.
A republican will not waste money running in the VI because people like you poison minds with misinformation.
This is the Virgin Islands, a republican free government. Focus on the LOCAL issues. You know, like the crooked LOCAL Democrats.
Rainman, don’t mistake political pandering to the base for political policies. I don’t like republicans either but I would be foolish to think the democrats are better.
so fred then what your saying is people are free to just lie about obama and you will say nothingand anon pandering? but to fred as noted on huffington post
You ever wondered what exactly ‘Compassionate Conservatism’ looks like? Well, if your a woman, look no further. The GOP has just passed a law in Virginia requiring unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound for all women seeking an abortion
when ever some one points out that republicans seem to have many of thease types of plansrepublicans counter with spreding lies, newt gingrich proposed overturning the child labor laws.
the young repubicans are getting into the act with the following from the washington post
A few weeks ago, the College Republicans and their front group Young Americans for Freedom hosted John Stossel. By sponsoring Stossel, the College Republicans endorsed his radical viewpoints, including his opposition to the Americans with Disabilities Act, Social Security and Medicare, and even key parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Can you imagine an America without the Civil Rights Act, an America where Americans of color are treated as second-class citizens again? Well, these were exactly the extreme views Stossel and the College Republicans were discussing at their event. They are advocating for a dangerous and backwards ideology that doesn’t produce economic growth and hurts students, women, and minorities.
Today’s Republican Party likes to hide their extreme and radical views behind the cloak of “freedom” and “liberty”, but the truth is they are advocating for a society that benefits the privileged and ignores the needy. They advocate for lower taxes for the wealthiest millionaires and billionaires while wanting to slash the basic social safety net that helps tens of millions of Americans and struggling families survive. Today’s Republican Party is one that advocates for the rights of the privileged at the expense of those truly in need of help, and that is just wrong.
are you saying that isolated groups of republicans have no impact on the prty as a whole? mitt romneys on record as saying scott walker is his hero, for his union busting in the state with the 5th largest economy that co incedentialy happens to pay there state union employees at a level that ranks 37th.
facts are not lies, i stand by what i said and if your a republican that is embarased by the policys of republicans then i suggest you say something to them.
Rainman, Please be more specific about what Republican lies about Obama you are referring to. You seem deeply worried about his re-election chances. You need to be concerned as well about Obama’s serious Baron von Munchausen qualities.
I also need you to explain why Obama is such a consummate fabricator and shows often such a lack of candor. I have included a link to a partial list of some of Obama’s whoppers. Does this man really believe what he is saying? http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies