{"id":222158,"date":"2016-03-03T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=222158"},"modified":"2016-03-03T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:00:01","slug":"local-democratic-party-to-hold-caucus-on-march-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/local-democratic-party-to-hold-caucus-on-march-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Democratic Party to hold caucus on March 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands yesterday announced that the Delegate Selection Plan for the Democratic Party Caucus will be held on March 12. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited for the opportunity to send delegates from the CNMI to the Democratic National Convention this summer,\u201d said CNMI Democratic Party chair Rosiky Camacho. \u201cAs part of that process, we want to put forward these rules to the public and to the campaigns for President that may be organizing in the CNMI to allow for participation in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI has been allocated six at-large delegates to the Democratic National Convention to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 25-28. At this convention the Democratic Party will formally select its nominee for President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The March 12 caucus will be the first step in the CNMI\u2019s participation in this process. At the caucus, Democrats will elect delegates to attend the National Convention according to Presidential preference group. Nomination forms for delegates, and the rules for the caucuses contained in the party\u2019s Delegate Selection Plan, are available online at https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/cnmidemscaucus\/.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that people will come out and participate on the 12th,\u201d Camacho said. The caucuses will be held at 6pm at the following locations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saipan:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Northern Marianas College<br \/>\nBuilding\/Room D-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tinian:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Residence of Mr. David Cing<br \/>\nSan Jose, Tinian<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rota:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Residence of Mr. Thomas A. Manglona<br \/>\nMiling Kata An, Rota (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands yesterday announced that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,10053,10054,10055],"class_list":["post-222158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-delegate-selection-plan","tag-democratic-national-convention","tag-local-democratic-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222158","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}