{"id":281723,"date":"2018-08-07T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=281723"},"modified":"2018-08-07T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T22:06:07","slug":"palacios-torres-submit-candidacy-papers-with-gop-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palacios-torres-submit-candidacy-papers-with-gop-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios, Torres submit candidacy papers with GOP bets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, fourth left, and Senate President Arnold I. Palacios, third left, join Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, Rep. Angel A. Demapan, and the GOP Precinct 3 candidates in yesterday’s filing of candidacy at the Commonwealth Election Commission’s office. Others in photo are, from left, Rep. Frank Dela Cruz, Ralph Yumul, Rep. Don Barcinas, Rep. B.J. Attao, Rep. Joe Itibus, and Rep. Ivan Blanco. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both incumbent Ralph DLG Torres and Senate President Arnold I. Palacios (R-Saipan), who are gunning for the two highest offices in the CNMI government, filed their petitions for candidacy at the Commonwealth Election Commission Office in Susupe yesterday, together with the other candidates on the CNMI Republican Party slate.<\/p>\n

Torres said his partnership with Palacios got started even way back when they first met at the House of Representatives of the 16th Legislature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a good relationship with the Senate president. When I first got into office, he was the House speaker, and he gave me chairmanship over the Health, Education, and Welfare Committee. Since then, I have had a very good working relationship with him,\u201d said Torres, adding that he and Palacios \u201cshared the same passion and commitment\u201d when they began communicating for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only fitting; the both of us decided naturally that we would make good partners,\u201d said Torres.<\/p>\n

Torres pointed out that so far, the CNMI has been doing very well. He noted several key improvements, such as a reduction in the government\u2019s deficit to about 57 percent; prioritizing the Retirement Fund; Public School System funding increases; Commonwealth Health Center and Department of Public Safety equipment procurement; police officer salary raises; and many others.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Our platform is to continue\u2026prioritizing our current priorities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Long-term goals, according to Palacios, include sustaining the economy to make it \u201cwork across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Even the little person in our villages [can] benefit,\u201d Palacios said. \u201cWe will continue to make sure that public services\u2026will benefit\u2026 our people and our children,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Palacios recalled of times five years ago, when the priorities were \u201cwho not to cut.\u201d Today, those priorities are \u201chow to move ahead and how to make sure we elevate the lives of our people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing that we need to continue to do is sustain this economy that Governor Torres and the late governor Eloy Inos plotted and the legislature [pushed for],\u201d said Palacios, adding that criticisms are part of the job. \u201cAt the end of the day, I sleep well because I know that our people are being helped one way or the other and that the highest priority is that we continue to do that across the board.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both incumbent Ralph DLG Torres and Senate President Arnold I. Palacios (R-Saipan), who are gunning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":281734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,141,65,67],"class_list":["post-281723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-gop","tag-house","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281723","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}