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Chapter: seven Jug Twitty Scarborough County
August 11, 2007 Jug tells Joe Scarborough why he just cannot support a boycott.
 SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you, Jug, about a letter you wrote to a friend of mine, Bob Riley, who I served with in Congress. Now, of course, he is governor of—he is governor of the state of Alabama. And you wrote a letter talking about how the Alabama legislature had proposed a resolution boycotting travel to Aruba. But you sent a letter to Riley, asked them not to be part of that, saying—quote—“Aruba has provided housing, volunteers through the Red Cross, supported nationwide searches and treated us with reverence and respect. This resolution would allow some factions to drive a wedge between our new friends and those who want us off the island.” Jug, despite the fact that you are terribly frustrated with Ruben Trapenberg and other people in Aruba, you still don‘t want the Alabama state legislature to push for a boycott on travel to Aruba? TWITTY: No, I don‘t. Absolutely not. I mean, I am sorry they—that this has come to what it has. They could have cleared this up in the—we should have had an answer as to what happened to Natalee within, at the most, two weeks. And I‘m sorry it‘s come to what it has. And, of course, my family has gone through tremendous stress during this. And, you know, I wrote that because I don‘t want the people—it‘s not the people of Aruba. It‘s—and, you know, bless their hearts. Everybody down there has opened up their hearts to us. But, you know, when Trapenberg comes on there saying he is paying all the tabs and we are down there mooching off of him and things like that—I mean, he didn‘t say that, but that‘s the way it makes me feel—that‘s not right. SCARBOROUGH: Not right at all. TWITTY: And I wrote that letter because—no, it‘s not. SCARBOROUGH: Hey, Beth and Jug, stay with us. We are going to be back in a second. And I am going to ask both of you why the authorities can‘t crack a kid who just turned 18 who knows the truth, knows right now where Natalee Holloway is. |
Natalee Holloway, Boycott of Aruba - 7
With the release of all three suspects, a boycott was called for. A boycott that some still feel is going on two years later. by Jan BrennanPause scroll with cursor
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