Can You Count the Number of People In The Room Who Want to Be Governor?
Monday morning’s inauguration of the Thirty-eighth Guam Legislature wasn’t simply the seating of 15 new senators. It was the gathering of at least seven men and women rumored to have their eyes on Adelup.
Staring at all of them from the top of the Antonio R. Unpingco Session Hall dais was the woman whose job most of them reportedly want. Lou Leon Guerrero’s second term in office ends in two years, but the jockeying already has begun. Her lieutenant governor – corruption-embattled Joshua Tenorio – was the first to announce his candidacy to succeed Ms. Leon Guerrero. Republican businessman Charlie Hermosa (whom I did not see at today’s inauguration) announced his campaign shortly after Mr. Tenorio.
But with great anticipation of federal criminal indictments involving the lieutenant governor, the political calculus has shifted, and a wide field of politicians have entered the proverbial waters. And they are sharks who smell blood.
Here is my prognostication of the quiet, but active race for governor.
