{"id":374551,"date":"2022-08-19T06:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=374551"},"modified":"2022-08-19T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:02:42","slug":"hocog-wants-to-give-chance-to-the-younger-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hocog-wants-to-give-chance-to-the-younger-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hocog wants \u2018to give chance to the younger generation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_374552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374552\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Victor-B.-Hocog-mug-PW-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-374552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Victor-B.-Hocog-mug-PW-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Borja Hocog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Victor Borja Hocog (R-Rota) said he decided not to seek any elected position this Nov. 8 general election to give the younger generation that opportunity to enter the arena of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Hocog stated in an interview last week, though, that he will still be politically active when his four-year term as senator expires in January 2023.\u201cBut as far as seeking re-election, I want to honor what I made during my inaugural speech that I will not run, or it\u2019s going to be my last term,\u201d said Hocog, who is turning 69 next month.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his term\u2019s expiration, Hocog said he will relax by doing fishing and farming on Rota.<\/p>\n<p>For the Senate Rota seats, the NMI Republican Party\u2019s bets are Rota Mayor Efraim M. Atalig and special assistant for Department of Homeland Security Dennis James C. Mendiola.<\/p>\n<p>Hocog said he first entered politics in 1984 when he was elected as a member of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>After serving two terms in the House, he took a break when he ran for lieutenant governor as running mate of then-former governor Froilan Tenorio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidently, we didn\u2019t make it. We were short so I took a break and engaged myself to work with a company out of Japan to build the Rota Resort,\u201d Hocog said.<\/p>\n<p>He then worked with a golf course of the hotel, and built a small construction company. He then successfully ran for the Senate in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>When then-governor Eloy S. Inos died in December 2015, then-lieutenant governor Ralph DLG Torres became governor and Hocog, who was then the Senate president, assumed the lieutenant governor\u2019s position until January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He was re-elected senator and served as Senate president from January 2019 to January 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Victor Borja Hocog (R-Rota) said he decided not to seek any elected position this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":374553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374551","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=374551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}