In the paper last week, USP's President Nicholas defends his meandering boss MP Frans Richardson. I get that...that's his job! However in doing so, he engages in political Hocus Pocus, a phenomenon that sadly has become typical of St. Maarten politricks. I didn't get a measly 128 votes as he wants the readers to believe....I got 129 votes! 129 REAL votes at that! Unfortunately these 129 votes ended up contributing to that other not-so-honorable MP getting a four plus two year almost Fls. 18,000.00 a month job. And that guy never even said thanks, while his example-setting-uncle continues to owe big bucks advanced for part of the LdW/DP election campaign in 2010. But that's a whole other chapter. To get back to the original story, what is truly important is the fact that MY 129 votes were EARNED.....not BOUGHT. Can President Nick say the same about the 722-Frans-Richardson-votes he brags about? EARNED votes versus BOUGHT votes; the difference between a true Democracy and fake one. It is a public secret how some of our "Honorable" MP's got "elected". Let's see what what kind of Democracy we will get in 2018.
I continue to have faith in the voters of St. Maarten in spite of the 821 other voters who post last year's election guaranteed me they too had voted for me!
Michael J. Ferrier
June 14, 2015
