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The Power of Guam

The predominantly API territory of Guam will hold their primary vote tomorrow. To highlight their issues, which are often unknown or ignored in the continental US, here are some links from Guam media.

Marianas Variety Editorial: Don’t waste this chance to be heard In our opinion, both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama are capable of improving America’s global image, and both are committed to changing the nation’s role in the world. Either of them can give us a relief from the seven confused years of the war-freak Bush administration. [...] The military buildup, war reparation and the Medicaid cap appear to be the hot buttons for local supporters. Both candidates vow to address issues relating to the relocation of 8,000 Marines from Okinawa, promising to give the people of Guam a voice in the nation’s capital, and to prioritize local contractors on federally funded construction projects. Clinton and Obama promise that the people of Guam will get their long-due war reparation claims. Clinton supports the lifting of Medicaid cap, while Obama agrees to reexamine it.
Marianas Variety 'Year after tired year, Guam has been hung out to dry' The people of Guam donated almost $600,000 to the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton Administration and almost $200,000 to the Clinton-Gore Campaign of 1996. Justifiably, there was never any problem taking our money, and I know that my fellow Democrats on Guam never made the Clintons feel embarrassed for asking repeatedly for more. That's politics. I get it. [...] But what has irritated many of us about the Clinton Administration is their follow through. In early 1997, when there arose a series of questions about money from China that may have made its way into the Clinton re-election campaign, enough individuals in the federal government who were opposed to Guam Commonwealth falsely began to lump us into the China mix, labeling us a foreign country running interference in American politics.

Pacific Daily News Democrats gear up to vote (heated discussion in comments) KUAM Local Democrats excited about caucus

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