{"id":7260,"date":"2012-04-05T05:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T05:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2012-04-05T05:51:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T05:51:06","slug":"ex-tinian-official-declines-fitial-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-tinian-official-declines-fitial-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Tinian official declines Fitial nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Governor names another PUC nominee<\/div>\n<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Former Tinian Commerce director Norbert U. Hofschneider has declined Gov. Benigno R. Fitial&#8217;s Jan. 30 nomination for him to serve on the Commonwealth Election Commission representing Tinian, saying he may run for office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the governor for nominating me. After further consideration, I decided to decline the nomination because I have plans of serving the people of Tinian in another capacity,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider, the older brother of Senate Vice President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian), served as Tinian Commerce director from 1994 to 2004. He now runs his own business on Tinian.<\/p>\n<p>He said he might run for a Tinian Municipal Council position or another elected post, depending on the political climate.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the governor nominated yesterday another nominee to the Public Utilities Commission representing Rota-Oscar P. Quitugua.<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua&#8217;s nomination requires the advice and consent of the Senate, which recently rejected the governor&#8217;s reappointment to PUC of Viola Alepuyo.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Quitugua will serve the remaining term left vacant by Joaquin S. Manglona, which will expire on July 21, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>PUC is now dormant because there is no confirmed appointee yet to the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Two other PUC nominees who have yet to receive Senate confirmation are Joseph C. Guerrero representing Saipan, and Zenie P. Mafnas representing Tinian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor names another PUC nominee By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter Former Tinian Commerce director Norbert&#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-7260","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\/7260","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=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}