Last week was quite a crazy one. Governor Calvo, in his State of the Island address the week before, unilaterally called for a decolonization plebiscite, that instead of following existing GovGuam law, would circumvent it by using the referendum system instead. At the core of the Governor's plan would be the allowing for all people to cast votes in the plebiscite, but only a certain number, would be counted. It was a plan that might solve one problem, but create several dozen more. The past week was filled with meetings about this, in which the Governor eventually came to the understanding that his approach wouldn't necessarily be the best way, although it had been helpful in helping raise public interest in the issue. At present his office and the Commissions on Decolonization have committed to working together on developing an educational plan for a political status vote, and so things are looking up for the moment. Here is a statement that I helped draft in response to