Snoop Dogg is a popular hip-hop rapper named after Snoopy from the peanut’s cartoons. He is a successful cannabis businessman and now the grand-daddy of the recent Paris Olympics.

He is widely known to be high all the time so his running through the streets of Paris carrying the Olympic flame that looked like a large blunt was priceless. He also had pins made showing him blowing smoke rings in the shape of the Olympic logo. It seems at odds with the great sporting event however, he was paid $9 million for 17 days but it is estimated he increased audience ratings by 79 per cent.

His friendship with America’s sweetheart homemaker Martha Stewart is another relationship you never saw coming, but now can’t let go what a really good match it is.

With an IQ of 147 when the average is 83 to 113, as well as intelligent, he is funny, tall at 6ft 4inches and dedicated to his wife and four children. He is a walking caricature of himself.

Snoop’s popularity is global so it is not surprising that others would want to be like him, including the nom de plume ‘Snoop dog’ who wrote last week comparing me to Donald Trump while hailing Mark Brown as a leader they want in their own country.

I am sure the letter is writer has no more similarities to Snoop as I do to Trump.

Where the letter writer is baffled and amused by Trump’s personal insults and outright lies, I cannot make up lies or give false information because all that I write has to be fact checked. I write an opinion column about these facts, as an articulation of the voice of the community I represent.

You my doggy friend are not listening to the coconut wireless. You are not being approached in the supermarket by locals and business people congratulating me on saying what many think but fear to express. Ironically, the community remains mute due to the personal attacks they will receive from your hero PR protection brigade. 

I have not said in public, in print and on social media “Water is free, we will not put tariffs on residential properties”.

When the letter writer says they find Mark Brown to be a sensible practical leader. They don’t realise that is what the PR machine wants you to see and believe.

It is the premise of everyone running for office at any level. Only in America can a presidential nominee blatantly and publicly abuse and own up to abusing women, be guilty of cheating on his wife with a porn star and still be voted into the highest office in the country. 

Behaving as a ‘beggar’ no longer requires wearing rags holding a tin cup these days. Speaking fluently in two languages does not make Mark less of a beggar. Most professionals, street sellers or con artists worldwide know how to present a passionate spiel in various languages. His skill set to talk to influential people convincing them that their wealth will be well spent here is exceptional. That is why we get given so much and how he gets away with so much. Developing us to be a self-sufficient nation rather than relying on funding would be better use of his talents.

Wishing you had someone of his calibre leading your own country? This man was the first to tax Cook Islands pensioners then back taxed it two years. 2013 with no warning it was going to happen, it was not in their election campaign, the old and vulnerable pension will be taxed. It gets worse. No time was given to budget for it, by giving a starting date six or 12 months in the future.

Instead, every pensioner immediately owed over two thousand dollars each from 2011 for a tax that did not exist then or in at any time in our culture or history until Mark Brown enforced it as Finance Minister.

The old people marched and protested but they were ignored, the government did not listen to them. Then when they didn’t pay straight away, their savings accounts were raided without notice or permission a week before Xmas, with no legal consequences.

It brought old people crashing down to earth on their knees. Pensioners today are still trying to pay it back while incurring penalty fees for not having done so.

In 2020 budget, your hero gave pensioners a $400 one off payment to help them during Covid. In 2019, he gave himself a 45 per cent wage rise which was an extra $400 plus per week – forever.

I’m no Trump. I may snoop but I’m not the dog in these scenarios.