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While the attitude of the senator is despicable, it looks like the medicaid accusations not long ago were bogus incitated by the opposition in his province. The thing is that he isn't walking straight, instead of filing a demand in court for difamacion e injuria, he just went the mafia way, getting thugs to investigate and intimidate the journalist of the report. I do think he will finish his term, but don't think he will be reelected after all this bad press. And it was only he that took it upon him
He'll be re-elected. Look at Aristy Castro in Higuey. Does the same thing all the time. At the end of the day Dominicans don't care about their country. Many people are angered about this and many more are siting around a colmado drinking a beer saying, "Diablo, ese Williams es un Tiguerazo...." Meanwhile, the next crop of college graduated Licenciados and Lambones are licking their chops to get into politics so they can "buscarme lo mio."
It's a sham, and the more you have people believing in government, the more the deception grows. Dominicans have been pacified not to react to things like this. So instead of arming a real challenge to this, they'll burn tires at the UASD and forget about it in a few weeks. Sad on so many layers, but if they don't care, why should we?
From yesterday's news:
Senator Williams arrives
It was all smiles for Senator Alejandro Williams as he finally arrived at Congress yesterday. Williams appeared to be unaware or even undaunted by the suspicions and allegations surrounding him. The Senator from San Pedro de Macoris refused to talk to the media about allegations that he had tried to intimidate reporters who were reporting on the Senator's alleged Medicaid investigation in the US or to discuss the fact that he is rarely in the DR to fulfill his Senatorial commitments. Hoy reports that Williams was even absent from the morning meeting of Congress's Ethics Committee that was scheduled for 10am. Hoy reports that Williams was at his office, but didn't bother attending the meeting. Ethics Committee president Wilton Guerrero was not impressed, saying that Williams acted as if he were the king of kings and the other Senators were his subordinates. Guerrero said that once statements were heard from the journalists who had made the accusations of intimidation, Margarita Cordero, Maria Isabel Soldevila, Norma Sheppard and Adalberto Dominguez, the Ethics Committee would issue its verdict on Williams.
I love the contrived anger by Guerrero. If this really mattered, if they really cared, this would have been finito weeks ago.
Mr. Lu