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GOP names more candidates for Precincts 3,5
Republican Party president James Ada announced two additional candidates for the House of Representatives last week: one for Precinct 3 and one for Precinct 5.
Ada said that zoning planner Maryann Lizama will be a candidate for Precinct 3, bringing to four the total number of GOP candidates for House Precinct 3, which has six available slots.
The other three GOP candidates previously endorsed were incumbent Rep. Felicidad Ogumoro (R-Saipan), former representative Stanley Torres, and Vicente Camacho, current director of the Veterans’ Affairs Office.
The Republican Party also named Ray Basa Lizama, active in CNMI sports, as their second Precinct 5 candidate, in addition to incumbent Rep. Antonio “Ton Pai” Agulto (Ind-Saipan).
Ivan Blanco, chairman of the GOP Central Committee’s public relations team, said yesterday that the Republican Party “still wants to coalesce” with so-called Independent Republicans “as verbally agreed.” This is the reason why GOP has not filled all the slots in some precincts.
The GOP’s gubernatorial team for the November elections is Gov. Eloy S. Inos for governor and Senate President Ralph Torres (R-Saipan) as lieutenant governor. They are facing at least three other tandems, including former speaker Heinz S. Hofschneider and Senate floor leader Ray Yumul (Ind-Saipan) as independents, former Commonwealth Ports Authority executive director Edward “Tofila” M. Deleon Guerrero and former representative Daniel “Danny” O. Quitugua of the Democratic Party; and former governor Juan N. Babauta and former senator Juan Sablan Torres, also Republicans whose request for a primary was shot down, but they have yet to decide whether they would still run.
