{"id":293353,"date":"2019-02-07T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=293353"},"modified":"2019-02-07T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:00:12","slug":"david-castro-sablan-files-his-candidacy-for-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/david-castro-sablan-files-his-candidacy-for-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"David Castro Sablan files his candidacy for special election"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Castro Sablan, third from left, and his wife, Evelyn Pangelinan Sablan, join his family members, friends, and members of his committee-to-elect in a group photo outside the Commonwealth Election Commission in Susupe yesterday morning. Sablan, an independent candidate, filed his candidacy for the March 23 special election for a seat in the House of Representatives Precinct 3. (Ferdie De La Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David Castro Sablan, an independent bet, filed his candidacy yesterday morning before the Commonwealth Election Commission for the special election for a vacant Precinct 3 seat of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Sablan ran for a House Precinct 3 during the Nov. 13 general election. There were only six seats. He lost, landing in eighth place among the 12 candidates. <\/p>\n

Yesterday, Sablan was accompanied to the CEC by his wife, Evelyn Pangelinan Sablan, some family members, friends, and members of his committee-to-elect.<\/p>\n

Sablan believes he would make it this time. <\/p>\n

If elected, Sablan said his main focus is to help those living below poverty level. \u201cI\u2019m really concerned about them. I want to make sure that they are taken cared of because they have been neglected for so many years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sablan has over 25 years of entrepreneurship with a family business and over 15 years of government service. At present, he is working as a real estate specialist 3 with the Department of Public Lands.<\/p>\n

Sablan said he believes in the principles of the Democratic and Republican parties, but he opted to stay independent so he can serve both parties.<\/p>\n

Sablan pledged to support Precinct 3\u2019s Garapan Business Opportunity Zone, women-in business enterprise opportunities, affordable housing for low to middle income families, and higher education preparation program for women.<\/p>\n

Sablan wants to introduce what he calls the Si Yuus Maase Man Amko Commemorative Initiative, initiate affordable preventive healthcare, and establish a heritage pathway for outdoor recreation and health and wellness.<\/p>\n

He said he will push for first-generation household members to secure decent jobs and begin a farm-to-table community gardening initiative. <\/p>\n

Sablan is the second to file his candidacy for the March 23 special election.<\/p>\n

Mariano DLG Fajardo, also an independent candidate, was the first to file his candidacy for the vacant seat.<\/p>\n

With the passing of representative Francisco D. Dela Cruz last month, a special election will be held on March 23 to fill the vacant seat.<\/p>\n

Dela Cruz landed fifth in the November election.<\/p>\n

Rep. Edmund Villagomez, an independent, obtained the highest number of votes. Donald Cabrera Barcinas got the seventh position.<\/p>\n

Aside from Sablan, Fajardo, and Barcinas, the candidates that did not make it were Vicente Camacho, Luis Tilipao, and Stanley Torres.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Friday, is the last day of submission of nominating petitions and candidacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Castro Sablan, an independent bet, filed his candidacy yesterday morning before the Commonwealth Election…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":293354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293353","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=293353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}