The Choice Is Clear: Delia Smith Brings Proven Federal Experience, Results and Readiness to Meet the USVI’s Challenges

This Saturday, Virgin Islanders will choose who carries our one voice to Washington. It is a choice about our families’ safety, our hospitals, our pensions, our economy, and our failing power grid.  Before you cast your vote, I want to speak to you directly, not with slogans but neighbor to neighbor, about our islands’ needs and who can actually deliver them. Here are the facts that this race turns on. Texas sends 38 representatives to Congress, Florida sends 28, and California sends 52. If one of their representatives is weak on healthcare or appropriations, others can cover those important issues. The Virgin Islands sends one representative to Congress with no final vote. Our Delegate must therefore be the prosecutor, the negotiator and the diplomat — all in a single person — and must walk into Treasury, HHS, HUD and FEMA and be taken seriously the moment she enters the room. A state can afford to send a representative who is not prepared for leadership, but we cannot. We have one v...