{"id":31657,"date":"2014-04-07T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=31657"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:35:56","slug":"gop-names-candidates-precincts-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gop-names-candidates-precincts-35\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP names more candidates for Precincts 3,5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Republican Party president James Ada announced two additional candidates for the House of Representatives last week: one for Precinct 3 and one for Precinct 5.<\/span><br \/>\nAda said that zoning planner Maryann Lizama will be a candidate for Precinct 3, bringing to four the total number of GOP candidates for House Precinct 3, which has six available slots.<\/p>\n<p>The other three GOP candidates previously endorsed were incumbent Rep. Felicidad Ogumoro (R-Saipan), former representative Stanley Torres, and Vicente Camacho, current director of the Veterans\u2019 Affairs Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party also named Ray Basa Lizama, active in CNMI sports, as their second Precinct 5 candidate, in addition to incumbent Rep. Antonio \u201cTon Pai\u201d Agulto (Ind-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Blanco, chairman of the GOP Central Committee\u2019s public relations team, said yesterday that the Republican Party \u201cstill wants to coalesce\u201d with so-called Independent Republicans \u201cas verbally agreed.\u201d This is the reason why GOP has not filled all the slots in some precincts.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP\u2019s gubernatorial team for the November elections is Gov. Eloy S. Inos for governor and Senate President Ralph Torres (R-Saipan) as lieutenant governor. They are facing at least three other tandems, including former speaker Heinz S. Hofschneider and Senate floor leader Ray Yumul (Ind-Saipan) as independents, former Commonwealth Ports Authority executive director Edward \u201cTofila\u201d M. Deleon Guerrero and former representative Daniel \u201cDanny\u201d O. Quitugua of the Democratic Party; and former governor Juan N. Babauta and former senator Juan Sablan Torres, also Republicans whose request for a primary was shot down, but they have yet to decide whether they would still run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Party president James Ada announced two additional candidates for the House of Representatives last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,141,133],"class_list":["post-31657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-gop","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31657","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}