{"id":184148,"date":"2014-11-06T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=184148"},"modified":"2014-11-06T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:00:14","slug":"former-judge-manibusan-wins-evangelista-ag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/former-judge-manibusan-wins-evangelista-ag-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Former judge Manibusan wins  over Evangelista in AG race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_184156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184156\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"184156\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edward-manibusan-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/edward-manibusan-color-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Manibusan\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184156\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manibusan<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFormer Superior Court presiding judge Edward Manibusan defeated attorney Michael N. Evangelista with a large margin to become the first elected attorney general of the CNMI, based on the unofficial tally of the Commonwealth Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Manibusan garnered a total 8,559 votes, while Evangelista got 4,672 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Manibusan won in all election districts except three. The former judge received big votes from almost all election districts.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelista, however, got big votes in Tanapag, his bailiwick. He also prevailed on Rota and early votes from Rota.<\/p>\n<p>Manibusan said it\u2019s a great feeling and that he extends his thanks to the people who voted for him, have faith in him, and trusted him.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked members of the committee to elect him who worked hard to make it a very successful campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great that Mike [Evangelista] and I had a very cordial relationship throughout the campaign. And I admire that,\u201d Manibusan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said having an elected AG is a new beginning, a new chapter in the CNMI history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gonna start new, start fresh and we have to do the right thing,\u201d the former presiding judge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Superior Court presiding judge Edward Manibusan defeated attorney Michael N. Evangelista with a large&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,26,242,67],"class_list":["post-184148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ag","tag-cnmi","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}