Dear Source:
Fewer people than delegates showed up for the last meeting of the Constitutional Convention. "I really don't know why more people don't show up," Delegate Gerard Emmanuel said. "It's puzzling to me." With the spectacle Bryan with blatant racist remarks at last week's meeting and most of the other delegates (by not walking out) made of themselves, is it any wonder?
The delegates have done a miserable job educating the public to the need for a constitution or about what they have been doing–other than asking for exorbitant sums of money to operate. When 89.9% of the territory's Democrats voted for Barack Obama, I thought the citizens of the Territory shared Obama's vision of inclusiveness. I guess I was wrong. No progress is being made here.
Dena Langdon
St. Thomas
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