{"id":357745,"date":"2021-12-16T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357745"},"modified":"2021-12-16T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:07:10","slug":"torres-in-guam-designates-hofschneider-as-acting-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-in-guam-designates-hofschneider-as-acting-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres in Guam, designates Hofschneider as acting governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_357751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357751\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/torres-hofschneider.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-357751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/torres-hofschneider-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-357751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres and Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres went off-island yesterday and designated Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian) as acting governor.<\/p>\n<p>In a memorandum addressed to all department and activity heads, Torres said he will be out of the Commonwealth from yesterday to this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The governor designated Hofschneider as acting governor because Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios is currently off-island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI advise all departments and agencies to ensure all actions, documents, and correspondences during this time reflect this assumption of authority,\u201d said Torres in the memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider said he just received the governor\u2019s official notification after the Senate\u2019s session yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Press secretary Kevin Bautista said Torres is attending a funeral of a family friend and will meet with several government officials in Guam. Bautista said the meeting is regarding collaborations between the CNMI and Guam.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the House of Representatives Judiciary and Governmental Operations Committee voted \u201cyes\u201d to hold Torres in contempt for not appearing at the JGO hearing pursuant to a subpoena served on him. Torres and the Office of the Governor filed Tuesday a lawsuit to quash the subpoena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres went off-island yesterday and designated Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":357751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-357745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357745","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=357745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}