Of course this was political and personal. If not, the Congressman could have sent me a communication. I could have told him that we met recently on an amendment to the plan which would raise income eligibility and benefits. I would have told him that we work off of FNS' projections (we can't run the program off of our own). I would have told him that the FNS adjusted their projections. I would have told him that the FNS have twice over the last few months commended the NAP for its handling of both the ENAP and the NAP. Kilili now seems to be setting himself up to take credit for the amendments we discussed with the FNS some 12 weeks ago. The number of beneficiaries dropped for three years prior to the implementation of the ENAP. When the ENAP was implemented, the increased income eligibility began to see a modest increase in beneficaries. This plateau'd and then began to drop again slightly. What does that say? It says that the CNMI economy is producing a level of jobs and increases in pay that are seeing many transition into the job market and out of NAP assistance. To repeat... the NAP does not just spend the federal dollars any way they want to. These plans are developed very closely with the FNS and carried out in careful fashion with their approval every step of the way. That is also something I could have informed Kilili about, had he had the courtesy of contacting my office. What we got was one very short email note to NAP from Bob Schwalbach asking if they could send their next FNS quarterly report to him when they send that to FNS and for new eligibility standards. The eligibility standards were sent right then, and the report submitted the next month was unintentionally not sent. This was it for communications between last October and the first very incorrect press release from Kilili's office last week. On the personal front... that press release came only after I launched a bit of social media criticism of Kilili's complaining about pay raises for people making under $40,000, when his salary is over $170,000 plus perks. They know what they're doing with regard to political PR... look at this response to my letter, it doesn't come until the next Friday publishing cycle.