Ah, yes.
Joey Camacho has put up a poll where we can grade the performance of our elected Legislators.
I give Joey kudos for his website and his willingness to do this. I don't much like anything else he's doing in the Legislature, but the mere fact that he's willing to act as an excellent source for information and feedback means he got a better grade in my book than most.
The only A I gave was to Tina.
I gave a B, a C, a couple of Ds, and mostly Fs.
I wish there were some way to distinguish between the Fs! Some are just meant to say you're a total failure. But others are meant to say you should be impeached if you don't resign and I am so very ashamed to have you in our CNMI Legislature that I get sick just thinking about it. But alas--all you can do is mark your grade.
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I don't know. Something is just a little wrong with a legislator hosting a poll on his own performance and his colleagues. I don't know enough about polls but wouldn't one think that since he created it and is administering it he can manipulate it? I mean as the time goes by and the "f" grades in his column accumulate at what point will he go into the backside of the survey and do a little "fixing".
Joe is very ego sensitive. That being the case there is a good chance he will not sit by and watch his scores of Fs continue to pile up --- as they should.
Don't get me completely wrong. I think the guys and gals up there should be graded but perhaps on a less biased site.
Perhaps you can host a survey here.
I don't know. Many businesses solicit consumer feedback. And I think most politicians are so out of touch with the voting public, and are so egotistical, that it wouldn't occur to them that the grades will be really awful.
I hope Joe wouldn't succumb to tampering with the votes. I think he'd be more likely to take the poll down.
But perhaps we need to take some screen shots of the results fairly often. Just in case.
A naked letter grade doesn't really tell a legislator anything.
For example, I would be inclined to give the entire legislature an F for not doing anything to oppose federalization, and Tina an F-minus for actively supporting it.
But if they only see the F, without knowing the reason for it, what are they to conclude?
We disagree, Cactus, on federalization. But I see the problem, too, with simple letter grades.
Still, there's some perverse pleasure to be had in participating in the poll. It's a small bit of feedback we get to give, whether taken seriously or not, whether particularly helpful as a guide to future behavior or not.
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