{"id":351299,"date":"2021-09-07T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=351299"},"modified":"2021-09-07T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T20:05:25","slug":"villagomez-endorses-magofna-in-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/villagomez-endorses-magofna-in-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagomez endorses Magofna in special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_351300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351300\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Edmund-S.-Villagomez-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-351300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Edmund-S.-Villagomez-mug-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edmund S. Villagomez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) is endorsing the candidacy of former Commonwealth Utilities Corp. budget officer Corina L. Magofna, who is running under the NMI Democratic Party for a seat in the House of Representatives Precinct 3 in the upcoming Oct. 16 special election.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said change won\u2019t happen overnight but what he has seen is what strong Democratic women bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are the backbones of our societies and Corina has all the qualities for the type of leadership that is required,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker said he looks forward to what the House can accomplish in Precinct 3.<\/p>\n<p>Magofna, 46, was the Democratic Party\u2019s Precinct 3 candidate at the November 2020 election. She landed in seventh place\u2014just 34 votes short of victory.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three and half years, she served as CUC\u2019s budget officer. She has a bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Accounting from the University of Phoenix, and an associate degree in Accounting from the University of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>A special election will be held to fill the seat left vacant by the sudden passing of representative Ivan A. Blanco.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is still ongoing and that the last day to register is Sept. 17. The seven-day early voting will start on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) is endorsing the candidacy of former Commonwealth Utilities Corp&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":351301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351299","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\/351299","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=351299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}