Disgust at Mapp’s post-hurricane attitude led to USVI Campaigning – Tregenza A. Roach
Both Bryan Jr. and Roach were in Tortola for a few hours on Saturday, October 20, 2018, to do among other things, an interview with Claude O. Skelton Cline ‘Honesty Speaking’ show special edition, aired on Saturday on ZBVI 780 AM.
Speaking on his move to the campaign, Lieutenant Governor Candidate Mr Roach spoke about what inspired him to take the leap, “at first I was reluctant, it just wasn’t on the path that I was on… I had told my committee that I did not believe that Legislator was a career… I was teaching at the University before I ran for the Senate,” he said.
“What I think changed my mind was the hurricanes, I think after September I felt that the islands were just plunged into a kind of darkness, not just the storms… it was spiritual in a greater sense,” Senator Roach said.
Lack of Compassion
“So I asked myself, if I believed that the current administration was capable of moving us out of that darkness and I didn’t believe that it could because when I listened to the Governor (Mapp) speaking to people after the storm saying, if you didn’t like the way things were done you could leave, just really the lack of compassion,” he said with disgust.
Senator Roach said when you’re in a leadership position, you must confront challenging questions, “Can you stay in a comfortable place when all around you just seems like mayhem?,” he questioned.
“To hear somebody say to people who were born in a place, who have chosen a place to live… ‘If you don’t like it you can go to someplace elsewhere’ where is that someplace else?... So I think that was a really convincing thing, I saw that darkness, I saw the despair from so many people,” he said.
Governor Mapp was on the same show on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 with both Mapp and Bryan currently in a dead heat according to USVI polls.
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