Thank you

[B]Community Meetings[/B] [I]CNMI Delegate candidate John Davis will be at the following locations and dates to meet with those who would like to meet with him:
Aug. 25, 2008, 5pm-6pm, Tanapag Youth Center
Aug. 26, 5pm-6pm, Gualo Rai Youth Learning Center[/I]

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We would like to thank Mike Manglona, director of Youth Affairs Office, and Joe Villagomez, also of the Youth Affairs Office, Governor’s Office, for their assistance in providing facilities for our community meetings to meet candidate John H. Davis Jr. We also thank program coordinators Frances Hill of the San Antonio Youth Learning Center and Vernon-Lee Manglona of the Koblerville Youth Learning Center, for their assistance in making space available for us. And we also thank all of those in the community who offered their ideas and support.

For those of you who missed the meetings this week, John Davis will be at the Tanapag Youth Center on Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, 5pm-6pm, and at the Gualo Rai Youth Learning Center on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 5pm-6pm.

John Davis has taken positions on issues affecting Americans abroad as well as American domestic policy and American foreign and defense policy.

On issues directly affecting the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, John Davis has promised that, if elected, he will introduce legislation (1) to have the U.S. Congress transfer the jurisdiction and control of the Exclusive Economic Zone and submerged lands surrounding the CNMI from the United States to the CNMI and (2) to have a Veterans Administration medical facility built in the CNMI. He is a strong advocate of a self-sustaining CNMI and favors establishing and locating federal offices and agencies, such as Small Business Administration and other federal economic business incubator agencies, in the CNMI.

John Davis is also in favor of the granting of permanent residence and citizenship to non-American individuals who have immediate relative status in the CNMI and who have met all of the requirements for U.S. citizenship as if living in the United States, as well as the processing of those applications in the CNMI. He is in favor of the expeditious processing in the CNMI of visas for nonresident workers, transferring from their CNMI job classification to the appropriate U.S. visa category for which they meet the requirements.

John Davis welcomes and invites any and all interested persons of the Commonwealth to meet with him and offer their comments, thoughts and concerns on the issues facing the Commonwealth that the Delegate to U.S. Congress may be able to address.

To set up a meeting time and date, call me at 287-9807 or 235-5123.

[B]Jeanne H. Rayphand[/B] [I]Chairperson, Committee to Elect John H. Davis Jr. as Delegate to U.S. Congress[/I]