Emmanuel T. Erediano Variety News Staff 111507
TWO residents say they are now being criticized by their relatives whom they convinced to vote for House members who overrode the governor’s veto of the power rate cut legislation.
Gov. Benigno R. Fitial, invoking his emergency powers, raised the power rates again anyway.
Alexandro Sablan and Frank Camacho, in separate telephone interviews, said their relatives are disappointed with the lawmakers for giving them “false hopes.”
Sablan believes that lawmakers “saw it coming, and knew the governor would find a way to turn everything around.”
He added, “They should have known that the governor still had the power to raise the CUC rates but for the sake of votes they did not let the people know.”
He said he is having a hard time explaining what’s going on now in light of the governor’s emergency declaration re-imposing high power rates for residential customers.
House Bill 15-246, which became Public Law 15-94 after lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto, reduced the residential rate from 22.8 to 17.6 cents for the first 1,000 kilowatt hours.
Fitial’s emergency regulations stated that CUC can now charge 25.8 cents.
A former radio announcer, Sablan said he now regrets being in the frontline during the campaign period and endorsing certain Precinct 1 candidates whom he thought helped ease the problem of CUC’s “exorbitant rates.”
He said he convinced several voters to re-elect lawmakers behind the override of the governor’s veto.
“Now, the voters are criticizing me. They are asking me what happened to the candidates I asked them to vote for,” he said.
Sablan said he and the voters “feel very much cheated.”
Frank Camacho said the people he convinced to support certain lawmakers felt they were misled.
He said the lawmakers should have told them that the governor could raise the power rates again.
When the Legislature overrode Fitial’s veto, Camacho said, the people were very happy to hear about it.
“But the way things are going now,” he said, “we believe that the incumbent lawmakers during the campaign period voted to override it just because they knew a majority of people were discontented with CUC. Now, we are going backwards.”
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