{"id":374326,"date":"2022-08-17T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=374326"},"modified":"2022-08-17T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:06:23","slug":"sablan-staffler-challenges-torres-and-palacios-teams-to-a-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sablan-staffler-challenges-torres-and-palacios-teams-to-a-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sablan-Staffler challenges Torres and Palacios teams to a debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_374327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374327\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sablan-staffler-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-374327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sablan-staffler-2-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina \u201cTina\u201d Sablan and Leila Fleming Staffler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Christina \u201cTina\u201d Sablan and her running mate for lieutenant governor, Rep. Leila Fleming Staffler, are challenging their electoral opponents to a debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of the Marianas deserve to hear all three gubernatorial teams debate the issues and our plans to address them,\u201d said Sablan. \u201cThere\u2019s so much at stake\u2014from revitalizing our economy to investing in our healthcare system, fixing our schools and infrastructure, cleaning up our islands, helping small businesses, and tackling public corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sablan-Staffler duo is squaring off with the Republican party standard-bearer Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and his running-mate, Sen. Vinnie Sablan, and the unified independent tandem of Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios and his running-mate, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTina and I say to the Torres and Palacios teams: we are ready and willing to go to any venue and debate in any format. The important thing is that we give voters an opportunity to hear directly from all the candidates in the same forum,\u201d said Staffler.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan and Staffler said their platform makes clear where they stand and what they will do if elected. \u201cOur platform is our pledge to the people of the Commonwealth. Leila and I are ready and eager to hold both our platform and our records in public service up to scrutiny in a debate,\u201d said Tina Sablan.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Tina and Leila\u2019s campaign and review their platform for good governance, visit www.sablanstaffler.com. Organizations interested in hosting a gubernatorial debate may contact the campaign committee at trustedleadership@sablanstaffler.com. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Christina \u201cTina\u201d Sablan and her running mate for lieutenant governor, Rep&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":374327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374326","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\/374326","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}