{"id":372412,"date":"2022-07-15T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372412"},"modified":"2022-07-15T06:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:02:54","slug":"king-hinds-not-running-for-delegate-or-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/king-hinds-not-running-for-delegate-or-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"King-Hinds not running for delegate or AG"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_372413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372413\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kimberlyn-King-Hinds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-372413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kimberlyn-King-Hinds-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberlyn King Hinds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Commonwealth Ports Authority board chair Kimberlyn King-Hinds confirmed Wednesday night that she is not running for any positions in the Nov. 8 general elections. This ended talks that she may run either as the CNMI\u2019s delegate to the U.S. of Representatives or as the CNMI\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Saipan Tribune\u2019s inquiry, King-Hinds said that running for office at this time is not the best use of her skills for the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have goals that can best be achieved by doing exactly what I\u2019m doing,\u201d said King-Hinds, who is a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, the CPA chair stated that although she is not sure at this point whether to run as a CNMI delegate to the U.S. Congress, she is not closing her doors to that option.<\/p>\n<p>With King-Hinds\u2019 final decision not to seek elected office, this leaves the strong likelihood that incumbent Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) will be running his eighth term unopposed again.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Edward Manibusan has yet to announce whether he is seeking re-election or not. No one has expressed an interest yet in running for AG.<\/p>\n<p>King-Hinds said she can finally see for the first time a real possibility of fixing some of the much-needed repairs at the CNMI\u2019s ports.<\/p>\n<p>She said she is also ecstatic about the opportunity to help Tinian Mayor Edwin P. Aldan and the Tinian leadership pursue a green initiative for the island to reduce its carbon footprint and be less reliant on fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p>King-Hinds said these are plans that will have a direct positive impact on the lives of the people and that at the end of the day, that\u2019s always the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in titles or positions. I\u2019m interested in results and I think these are goals we can accomplish together,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has started accepting the submission of nominating petitions and candidacy documents since Monday. Aug. 10 is the last day of such submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Ports Authority board chair Kimberlyn King-Hinds confirmed Wednesday night that she is not running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":372413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-372412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-ag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372412","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=372412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}