{"id":376847,"date":"2022-09-29T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=376847"},"modified":"2022-09-29T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T11:41:08","slug":"breaking-news-torres-palacios-sablan-face-each-other-in-gubernatorial-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-torres-palacios-sablan-face-each-other-in-gubernatorial-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Torres, Palacios, Sablan face each other in gubernatorial debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLGTorres, Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, and Rep. Christina E. Sablan (D-Saipan) faced each other in the 2022 Gubernatorial Candidate Debate hosted by the Saipan Chamber of Commerce at the World Resort Saipan\u2019s Taga Hall Thursday night.  <\/p>\n<p>Torres, Palacios, and Sablan debated 12 questions from a variety of topics that include the environment, workforce, zoning regulations, healthcare, workforce\/immigration, gaming, infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, and the economy.<br \/>\nEach candidate was allowed an opening statement of not more than two minutes long and a closing statement of not more than three minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>The Taga Hall was packed mostly with supporters of the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Torres is running under the Republican Party, with Sen. Vinnie F. Sablan (R-Saipan) as his running mate for lieutenant governor, for the Nov. 8 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios is seeking the governor\u2019s position, with Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang as his running mate as lieutenant governor under a unified independent team.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan is gunning for the governor\u2019s position under the Democratic Party, with Rep. Leila Staffler (D-Saipan), as her running mate as lieutenant governor. <\/p>\n<p><em>More details to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLGTorres, Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, and Rep. Christina E. Sablan (D-Saipan) faced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376847","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=376847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}