VINO STATEMENT: Mark Vanterpool a desperate disgrace
Many ordinary residents, readers and advertisers have overwhelmed us with telephone calls, texts, emails, and Facebook inbox messages saying this type of childish conduct by an elected official is unbecoming and brings him and the House of Assembly into disrepute as the public have further lost faith in the highest law making body in the Virgin Islands.
What is even more ironic and the perfect example of high level hypocrisy is that moments before one of his colleagues [Hon. Myron V. Walwyn] in his own presentation spoke about members of the House of Assembly using the space to call people’s name when in fact they only can do it under the protection of being immune from being sued.
The public was happy to hear this new and surprising approach from Hon. Walwyn but now could only conclude it was just more of the same saying what needed to be said at the moment but doing the opposite another legacy of the National Democratic Party regime.
Mr. Vanterpool has never met our Marketing Manager Mr. John E. Leonard who has been with the company now for three years and operates from overseas. Therefore, it was sad and most unfortunate for Mr. Vanterpool to attack Mr. Leonard without due cause.
Mr. Leonard has never met the Chairman of any political party in the Virgin Islands, therefore he is not an advisor to any as stated by desperate Mark Vanterpool!
Many have suggested that perhaps the Fourth District Representative in his kindergarten like desperate attempt to change the subject from the reported corruption, conflict of interest and breaking of laws now on public record and in the public domain both in the Auditor General and the Public Accounts Committee Reports had a temporary loss of his mental capacity.
While we at Advance Marketing and Professional Services the parent company of Virgin Islands News Online are no experts on mental health issues perhaps those who feel strongly about Mr. Vanterpool’s alleged mental issues can take that up in another forum as it is our understanding that the election laws speak to how a member is disqualified from public office.
Others have suggested that Mr. Vanterpool’s attack on VINO and the staff is a smoke screen to get at our esteemed Chairman of the Board Mr. Julian Willock. We at this news site will not speculate as to whether this was the case.
It has long been established that Mr. Willock has no editorial control of the news site, does not write for the news site as there are some four reporters on staff which includes an acting Editor in Chief.
Therefore, we call on Mr. Vanterpool to apologize firstly to the people of the Territory for using the House of Assembly to attack innocent people in some cases persons whom he has never even met, and apologize to the people of the Virgin Islands for his blatant lies about VINO.
Throughout all our stories on the Ports Development scandal we cannot find one in which we had ever called or labeled Mr. Vanterpool as corrupt and demand that he brings forward the evidence to support his libelous and slanderous claim seeing that all of a sudden he is an advocate for “evidence”.
Our stories on the Ports Project simply lifted what is on public record and have been reported by other media houses after two investigative reports (Auditor General and PAC) that the process carried out in the project demonstrated conflict of interest, breaking of laws, corruption and no one looking out for the interest of tax payers.
If Mr. Vanterpool wants a fight with our news site or his eyes are on someone in particular we humbly and politely request that he reconsiders to avoid public embarrassment to himself, his family and his young child. Our esteemed Chairman Mr. Willock’s record while at the Ministry of Communications and Works is above reproach morally, ethically and otherwise...just ask the staff!
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41 Responses to “VINO STATEMENT: Mark Vanterpool a desperate disgrace”
Ha ha let he tek that!
lol. Time for a psychiatry review lol
you lose communication you lose trust- you lose trust because you lost communication communication is the ke.
Your paid statement over last weekend didn't help you either.
Mistake may have been made, things may have been done perhaps not in the best manner possible. Simply pause and reflect. Now is not the time for ranting and raging.