{"id":373431,"date":"2022-08-02T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=373431"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:06:05","slug":"orsini-seeks-re-election-as-boe-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/orsini-seeks-re-election-as-boe-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Orsini seeks re-election as BOE member"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_373432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373432\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Orsini-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-373432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Orsini-pix-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNMI Board of Education member Andrew L. Orsini shakes the hand of Commonwealth Election Commission executive director Kayla S. Igitol after he filed his candidacy documents for his re-election yesterday at the CEC office in Susupe. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrew L. Orsini is seeking re-election as a member of the CNMI Board of Education, while Rota Municipal Council secretary Jim Michael Atalig is also running again for a council seat.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by his wife, Orsini submitted his candidacy documents to the Commonwealth Election Commission office in Susupe yesterday before noon.<\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Kayla S. Igitol said Atalig submitted his candidacy documents to CEC commissioner Leilani Manglona on Rota yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Orsini later said in a phone interview that he wants to finish what he started as a BOE member. Orsini said he will continue his previous campaign slogan: \u201cA Better Education For A Better Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still continuing that [slogan] as far as moving forward,\u201d he said. His four-year term as BOE member expires in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Orsini was elected BOE chairman in January 2021. In January 2022, Gregory P. Borja was elected as the new BOE board chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Orsini previously served as a member of the Board of Regents at the University of Guam for four years. He was also a member of the Board of Regents at the Northern Marianas College for four years.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said there is one available seat for the BOE board in the Nov. 8 general election.<\/p>\n<p>There are three available seats for Rota Municipal Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew L. Orsini is seeking re-election as a member of the CNMI Board of Education,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":373432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-373431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-boe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373431","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=373431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}