Ramon "Kumoi" Deleon Guerrero

Ramon "Kumoi" Santos Deleon Guerrero (September 19, 1946 – March 20, 2018) was a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands. Guerrero was an independent candidate for Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands in the 2009 gubernatorial election.

Biography Guerrero previously worked as an assistant to former Governor Froilan Tenorio for seven years. Guerrero also served as the former executive director of the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) for four years.

Political career In the 1999 general election, Deleon Guerrero defeated Republican incumbent Juan P. Tenorio to represent Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands Senate. During the election, DeLeon Guerrero, the second highest spending candidate in the 1999 election, outspent the incumbent who was the fifth highest spending candidate in the election. He was the first third-party legislator in the CNMI's history and the was described by Zaldy Dandan of Marianas Variety as the first opposition senator since 1995.

He was sworn into office in 2000. In his 2003 reelection effort, he finished fourth of five candidates, losing to Democratic candidate Luis Palacios Crisostimo. He left office in 2004.

During the campaign, Guerrero urged young people studying overseas to return to the Northern Mariana Islands after completing their education. Guerrero stated that he believed low wages were the major reason why young people choose to work on the U.S. mainland. He said the CNMI government needed to do more to encourage young people to stay in the Commonwealth and that the CNMI should pay workers "their worth." He called on younger workers to return to the CNMI so that older workers could retire saying, "This is their home and we, their people, need them."