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Crisostimo files intent for governor
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Posted on Jan 09 2005
Democratic Sen. Luis Crisostimo has formally filed his intent to run as governor in this year’s general elections.
“Today, I humbly submit my letter of intent for the highest post, for office of the governor under the Democratic Party banner,” said Crisostimo in his Dec. 28, 2004 letter to party chairman and former governor Froilan C. Tenorio, who himself has set his sites on the same post.
Crisostimo, in his letter, noted the need for the local Democratic Party to be affiliated with the national Democratic Party.
“As an official member of the party, our goal would be to link, associate, and harness the members of Congress and the administration’s full affiliation of the National Democratic Party and enjoy partisan support with the U.S.,” he said.
By this, he meant “we will yield great party support and loyalty from our national leaders.”
He said the Democratic Party “has very little future if we do not unite ourselves within the CNMI.”
“And that being united, we will represent not just the officers, members, and elected officials, but we represent the majority of the Commonwealth’s working class,” he said.
Further, Crisostimo noted that at this time when the U.S. and its allies “continue to fight for freedom and democracy in other parts of the world… they need the support and loyalty of the citizens of the Commonwealth.”
Crisostimo ended his letter by citing the saying, “give a man fish and he will have a single meal; teach him how to fish and he will feed himself, his family and his friend for the rest of his life.”
The senator, the highest elected member of the Democratic Party, said that if he wins a party primary, he would choose Tenorio as his running mate.
It was Tenorio who earlier suggested that he would pick Crisostimo as his lt. governor in this year’s election.
Tenorio, who left the party years ago, rejoined the organization last year, serving now as its central committee chairman.
Crisostimo has expressed confidence that he would win the governorship.
Crisostimo, 43, first won a senate seat in the 2003 midterm elections.
