by Clynt Ridgell, KUAM News Thursday, May 08, 2008 Subscribe to Clynt's newsfeed   E-mail this article Printable version KUAM Toolbar Web Widgets Get RSS headlines

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The Central Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Guam met this evening to make several large and important decisions relative to last weekend's historic caucus. First, they voted to accept the nomination of Senator Ben Pangelinan's as national committeeman. The former speaker of the Guam Legislature had been nominated by outgoing party chairman Tony Charfauros.

They then proceeded to tackle the more contentious issue on the table: whether to certify or recount the results from the weekend election. The committee had previously received a request from national chairperson candidate Joseph Cameron, who demanded a recount after losing the election to Pilar Lujan, alleging there were missing ballots and expressing strong concern over the more than 400 spoiled ballots.

At the onset of discussions, Cameron announced that he was withdrawing his protest, with the results subsequently certified by the party members.

Both local offices for the respective presidential campaigns for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton expressed their satisfaction and support of the results, as tabulated last Saturday.