Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council chair Luis John \u201cL.J.\u201d DLG Castro has officially announced his candidacy for a seat in the CNMI House of Representatives in the upcoming election. <\/p>\n
Castro will be running under the NMI Republican Party as representative for Precinct 1. <\/p>\n
\u201cRunning for this office was something I have wanted to do in the past, but yet due to certain setbacks I was not able to. Now, with encouragement from friends and loved ones, it is an ambition I\u2019m excited to seek,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Castro was a member of the Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council for the past two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this election, I seek to serve the people who I looked up to growing up, and those whose lives I\u2019ve been privileged to enrich through my work in the community as both a citizen and as a public official,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Castro is active in the church and was a senator in the second, third, and fourth CNMI Youth Congress.<\/p>\n
He cited his experience of having worked with the late governor Eloy S. Inos and Gov. Ralph DLG Torres. <\/p>\n
Castro plans on running his campaign with the same platform he used when seeking election to the council: commitment, collaboration, and community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith these \u2018Three C\u2019s\u2019 as I like to call them, I hope to draft legislation together with my colleagues in the Legislature that will not only benefit our precinct, but the entire Commonwealth as a whole and continue the progress that has been made so far,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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