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Governor Kenneth Mapp had ostensibly set the tone for this election cycle when he vowed to rain bombs and missiles on his opponents<\/span><\/a>. The comments were made while the governor was filing his election documents at the Election System’s office on St. Croix in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re letting the others understand that it\u2019s not going to be a cake walk; they\u2019re coming to a real war so don\u2019t come with no BB gun; don\u2019t come with no sling shot [because] it\u2019s missiles and bombs we have,\u201d Mr. Mapp warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I don\u2019t want nobody bawling because this is not an easy job; public scrutiny is not easy. All of us who have been in elected office, we\u2019ve been subjected to the public light, and there are a number of folks running for this [the governor\u2019s] office that have not had any public scrutiny in their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also telling young folks, when they\u2019re running for political office, if there\u2019s something in your life that you\u2019ve done that you don\u2019t want to ever see on the front page of a newspaper, don\u2019t run for public office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were strong comments, but Governor Mapp has yet to drop a significant bomb or missile on any of his opponents. In fact, it was another team considered to be the governor’s strongest challenger that dropped the first major ammunition of political war on the incumbent governor.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Bryan-Roach campaign released a flyer ad<\/span> showing members of Mr. Mapp’s family, including his brothers, in top positions of government. The ad went viral and sent a message that painted the current administration as one that hires not on merit, but connections. “The Bryan-Roach team believes Virgin Islanders should be hired for their\u00a0r\u00e9sum\u00e9, not DNA,” reads the flyer ad.<\/p>\n

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The ad was described by someone in the Bryan-Roach campaign a major “body blow,” which this person believes painted the governor and his administration as a team that participates in nepotism.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the man who promised the preemptive strike has yet to deliver a single explosive that hurt the opponent, even after uttering such fighting comments like the following: Politics \u201cis not a church meeting,\u201d Mr. Mapp said. \u201cWe\u2019re not serving communion.”<\/p>\n

He said as governor, he is subjected to abuse by the populace. \u201cWell, if you run for the office, you should not wait until you get into the office to feel some of the abuse. You should feel it on the campaign \u2014 we\u2019re just preparing you just in case, right? That\u2019s the kind of fun we have to have,\u201d Mr. Mapp said.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cPeople also need to understand who is running for the office,\u201d Mr. Mapp said. \u201cSo this year we want to talk about credit scores because you can\u2019t want to handle billions of people\u2019s dollars and then you can\u2019t handle your few hundreds.\u201d<\/p>\n

November 6 is only six weeks away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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