{"id":6551,"date":"2012-03-30T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2012-03-30T06:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:58:33","slug":"ray-palacios-will-not-seek-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ray-palacios-will-not-seek-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Palacios will not seek re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Rep. Ray Palacios (Cov-Saipan) said yesterday he will not be seeking re-election this November as he needs to focus on clearing his name, months after he was charged with drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m confident my name will be cleared,\u201d Palacios told Saipan Tribune during a Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation session yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is Palacios&#8217; second time to represent Precinct 2 in the House of Representatives where he served as chairman of the Education Committee until stepping down from the post in November due to the drug charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>He said, however, that he will continue to support the Covenant Party. One of the two Covenant candidates for Precinct 2 is his nephew, John Paul P. Sablan, whom Palacios said he will help. The other candidate is incumbent Rep. Ralph Demapan (Cov-Saipan), his cousin.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his plan after his term ends in January, Palacios said, \u201cLet&#8217;s see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the special committee that House Speaker Eli Cabrera (R-Saipan) tasked last year to investigate Palacios&#8217; alleged drug use has yet to complete its report.<\/p>\n<p>House floor leader George Camacho (Ind-Saipan) chairman of the Special Standing Committee on Official Conduct and Ethics, said yesterday that the panel can&#8217;t disclose the contents of the report it is working on but that it will be completed before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Rep. Trenton Conner (R-Tinian) told reporters Wednesday that he may run for a Senate seat representing Tinian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter Rep. Ray Palacios (Cov-Saipan) said yesterday he will not be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}