July 24, 2007 -
What if a senator was playing games instead of bashing them?
It's already happening in Guam, where as reported by the Pacific Daily News, Sen. Ray Tenorio (left) is a serious, level-70 WoW player. Tenorio's avatar is a Dwarf priest named Paleray on the Silverhand server. He's a member of a guild, of course, the Knights of the Marianas.
From the PDN report:
Tenorio has been gaming online... for years. His previous game of choice was Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, where he had several top-level characters of various classes. But in November [2005], his brother Charlie made an earnest plea... "We need a healer..."
Of WoW, Tenorio said:
What I like about World of Warcraft is it's a great way to be able to reach out and connect with other people. So many different people play -- attorneys, accountants, geeks, ... all kinds of people.
What makes World of Warcraft so alluring is that it's always reinventing and adding new content. There's always something new to come back to.
Guam is a territory of the United States and has one non-voting member in the U.S. House of Representatives. Tenorio is a member of Guam's 15-member unicameral legislature. His official website is here.
Comments
Re: Senator is a Level-70 Dwarf Priest in World of Warcraft
O.O I want to duel him. I bet I can beat him in teh game and being a better senator. >:D
Re: Senator is a Level-70 Dwarf Priest in World of Warcraft
Maybe he's also member of this site: http://www.strategyfreaks.com/games/world_of_warcraft/
If he is interested in the position, I would gladly vote for him as President too.
If i could, i would gladly vote for Ray Tenorio as president ;)
Guam man, think about that, Guam. What else is he going to do?
By the way, your link to Knights of Marianas has no player names Paleray listed. Kicked out?
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silver+Hand&n=Pa...
@hilaryduffgta
"oh well till then i have gta and duff"
you have duff beer? how does that taste? hahahahaha
Back on topic,
I think the press would have been a lot meaner if he played some kind of undead warlock female!!
Undead was always a pain in the a** to play
I'm not sure, it took me a few moments to understand he meant jack Thompson, not Jackie Chan the actor.
yay WOrld of warcraft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a level 70 priest!! Damn thats pretty good
@Jer
it was said sometime by jacky boy when Gp was still Live journal
oh well till then i have gta and duff
I think you are going for the South Park episode "Make love not warcraft"
But the quote is "You can stand here and toss a ball around... or you can sit at your computer, and do something that matters"
ahhh man oh well at least i was in the neighborhood
but hell yea world of warcraft is a damn good and entertaining game
But it's the end of the World...... of Warcraft.
Ummmmm how can you not be a wow fan????
Thats fine though go ahead and sit out side and throw the ball around or you can get up and do something in the world.......of warcraft
the internet for whoever gets that line (beyond easy)
Same here. I was quite shocked for a moment or two until I realized the hyphen was not a typo. I was all like, "why all the hate, O kung fu mastah?"
Source please
I think its great that he admits to it. Its better to be playing a game online than to be bored stupid getting into trouble.
Just my opinion on the matter.
On a more serious note, it's funny that Jackie-chan said this some time ago:
"Adults with common sense and common decency who respect law enforcement are still running this country. Video gamers are not, and never will..."
that line was from one of the best Soth part episodes ever and its nice to see someone who can qote Soth Park and not leave about 50 HAHA typ things behind it.