IN A matter of weeks, the people of Guam will hit the streets and head to the voting polls to exercise their right to vote for the leaders of Guam over the next two years.
I have had the chance to meet with many voters and several candidates for elected office and though there was a primary a couple of weeks ago, for some the strategy will stay the same. At least a couple of them (candidates) said they have been continuing to go out and do the same thing as they did before the primary. I told them that if you continue in the same manner in which you have, you will stay pretty much where you are now.
With the possible exception of former Sen. Aguon or Tommy Morrison, several other candidates must unseat at least a few more senators before they can jump far enough in the standing to be elected. Number 16 will not do, and in the mayoral races number two will not do. As far as I can see, most of the present Legislature are sitting pretty to be re-elected without problem. There are a bunch of aspiring guys and gals that have a long way to go to get into the next legislature.
This election will be looked on as a preparation for how 2014 will be paid attention to. Many people I have talked to over the months have expressed their “waiting-to-see-what-happens” attitude. I have told them that the elected leaders of the island are voted into office by a majority of the people. If you want a leader to represent you, you vote him/her into office and if you vote them in and they do nothing on your behalf, then you go and heartily vote them out and replace them with someone else. Quite often many leaders will go out and do things on behalf of a few friends and relatives and not for the good of the majority who elected them into office.
Exercise your right to vote because it has been given to you, and many have died for that right over our history.
Felix Aguon,
Quezon City and Guam
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- Thursday, 20 Sep 2012 03:00am
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