{"id":190412,"date":"2015-01-27T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=190412"},"modified":"2015-01-27T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:00:38","slug":"rota-delegation-elects-new-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rota-delegation-elects-new-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota delegation elects new chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Glenn L. Maratita (R-Rota) has been elected chairman of the 19th Rota Legislative Delegation following the group\u2019s organizational session yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Maratita was unanimously elected by the four legislative group members: Senate President Victor B. Hocog (Ind-Rota), Sen. Steve Mesngon (R-Rota), Sen. Teresita A. Santos (R-Rota), and himself.<\/p>\n<p>Mesngon was elected vice chair, while Hocog was named floor leader. Santos was elected legislative secretary, completing the organizational leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation members said they will continue addressing issues and concerns on Rota, with Maratita pledging that he will be a \u201cteam player\u201d in the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Hocog said the organization is set to meet with Rota Mayor Efraim Atalig on Wednesday to discuss organizational matters, including the group\u2019s operational budget.<\/p>\n<p>The local delegations of Tinian and Aguiguan and Saipan and the Northern Islands elected their officers last Friday, with Sen. Francisco Borja (Ind-Tinian) and Rep. John Paul Sablan (R-Saipan) elected chairmen of the Tinian and Saipan delegations, respectively. <em>(Joel D. Pinaroc)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Glenn L. Maratita (R-Rota) has been elected chairman of the 19th Rota Legislative Delegation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,541],"class_list":["post-190412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-budget","tag-northern-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190412","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}