BY MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
I recently rubbed elbows at the meeting of the Vice
Mayors League of the Philippines –Pangasinan Chapter new Urdaneta City Vice
Mayor Julio F. Parayno III and new Pozorrubio Vice Mayor Ernesto Salcedo.
The gathering was held at Jeck’s in Dagupan City.
I said the duo were “new” since Parayno became the
second most powerful man in the Cattle City when he assumed office in June 30,
2016 while Salcedo, the highest vote getter alderman, was catapulted to the
vice mayoralty after the town mayor Artemio Chan was sacked by the Ombudsman
and replaced by Vice Mayor Ernesto Go, a bitter rival, for the mayorship.
Parayno answered my query if he will run for the
top post of Urdaneta City after mayor Amadeo "Bobom" Gregorio Perez
IV bowed out as his third term expired in the 2019 election.
Parayno, a
young law graduate of Saint Louis University in Baguio City, told me that in
the next election it would be a tandem of Perezes versus the pair of Paraynos clashing in the burgeoning city.
MARQUEE BETS - Pangasinan's 5th District Congressman Amado Espino, Jr (above photo) and former Ambassador Amadito Perez, Jr. |
“Paano maging Paraynos versus Perezes?” I
posed in the vernacular.
He said the probable bets would be former
Ambassador Amadito Perez, Jr. and daughter Councilor Tet Perez- Naguiat (wife of former PAGCOR Chair Cristino Naguiat) and him and his
nephew Jimmy D. Parayno the present councilor of the city.
Parayno told me that his deceased father former
Vice Mayor Julio Parayno, a man of the masses, should be the mayor of the 132,
940 populated (2015 census) city but gave way to kin Dr. Rodoldfo E. Parayno. He cited the latter ran for the mayorship and won as the quintessential
politico Amadito Perez ended his third term and became the congressman of the 5th
District.
Parayno told me he can also seek reelection while Fifth
District Congressman Amado T. Espino chooses to run versus the "ole man" Perez,
his bรชte noire, for the mayoralty seat.
Parayno said to us media men that it is the dream
of the solon, who told him, to be a mayor of the 34 villages city.
Espino and Amadito Perez have a legal rift being
heard by the court after then Governor Espino sued with libel the octogenarian
(or is it nonagenarian?) Perez after he defamed Espino at the meeting de
avance of gubernatorial candidate Mark Cojuangco at Lingayen Plaza in 2016
Election.
Cojuangco was defeated heavily by the son and name
sake of Espino on that election.
In case Espino runs for mayor, political pundits
see the District would be seeing outgoing Urdaneta Mayor Bobom Perez clashing
with outgoing Binalonan Mayor Ramon “Mon-mon” Guico III for the eight towns and a
city’s Congressional District.
“Nobody
is more viable to run in the district with these two names,” Edwin Bautista, a media practitioner, said.
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Edwin, my student in political science at Lyceum
Northwestern University, is the pet peeve of Pozurrobio Vice Mayor Salcedo who
told us that he could not forget Edwin suing him at the court because he
accused the then No.1 Councilor for rampant vote buying in the 2016
election. Edwin was No. 9 or a hundred of votes shy to the No. 8 Councilor.
“A vacancy in No. 1 post means I’ll be the No.8
dad in the town that could put a stop on my series of failed streaks in the
post,” Edwin told then his best friend broadcaster Harold Barcelona about
his plan, strategy, and chutzpah.
But Murphy’s Law had its way, son of a gun, Salcedo
became Vice Mayor after the Ombudsman fired Mayor Chan for allowing somebody to
solemnize marriage and pulled up by operation of law Vice Mayor Go and Salcedo to
the top two posts of the local government unit.
Now Edwin’s fellow media man and fellow perennial losing candidate for the councilor's post Blas Ople’s factotum and Marcos Era's journalist and book author Mel Jovellanos was recommended by the new vice mayor,
an independent bet, to be the No. 8 dad.
“How
can Mel be the No. 8 when he was a tail ender and I got thousands of votes in
that election than him?” Edwin, as Harold
narrated, wildly, er, emphatically posed to friends.
“He who caused the vacancy recommend through his
party or the Sanggunian if he is independent,” I quipped to Publisher Ronel de Vera, a
law graduate, the legal dictum in the Local Government Code of 1991 I taught to
the classmates of Edwin while he was taking a pee in the comfort room away from
my lecture on that topic while Salcedo gave us media men, Manaoag Vice Mayor Domie Ching, and
Vice Mayor Parayno a smirk of a smile of “Sweet Revenge” to Edwin where the
former could not forget telling the Municipal Trial Court’s judge that Salcedo flooded
the villages with “sets of palanggana or plastic basin.
Susmariosep, this how luck and fate ensued in local
politics a politics where my favorite House Speaker, not the rabble rousing Joe
de Venecia nor the arrogant Pantaleon Alvarez, but the non-pareil Tip “All Politics is Local” O’Neil (Democrat)
whose anecdotes loaded book "Man of the House with William Novak" gave me a view point how politics could make or unmake a
person.
NEW VEEMS - Author (center) with Pozorrubio new Vice Mayor Ernesto Salcedo (extreme left) and Urdaneta City Vice Mayor Julio F. Parayno III . |
***
When the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in January 30 to March 6 this year took over the War on Drugs,
narcotics proliferate again in the market thus the members of the Philippine
National Police were called back to continue the fight against the peddlers. In
October 10 this year President Rodrigo Duterte issued a memorandum circular
pulling out again the superior in number cops and hailing the small in number
PDEA’s agents.
Evidently, the decision of the
president was anchored on the Social Weather Station polls that showed his
popularity rates cascaded to 18 percent after some policemen were charged
executing innocent individuals like Kian delos Santos and Carl Arnaiz and other adverse issues that haunted his administration as played to
the helm by the acrimonious Philippines media?
Was Duterte impulsive to drag out
the PNP despite survey outfit Pulse Asia poll bannered “88% of Pinoys support
war on drugs; 73% say EJKs happen—survey” by Philippine Daily Inquirer 's issue last October 16?
Would the war on narcs weakened
as the PDEA has only 2000 personnel nationwide while the police have 175,000
men literally implementing the “long arm of the law”?
Here was my comment at Face Book
after Pulse Asia showed its polls taken almost on the same dates with that of
its rival SWS:
Anong nangyari?
SWS Duterte’s 48% popularity versus Pulse’s
73%.
SWS
23-27, 2017 polls showed President Duterte got 67% (Satisfied) 14% (Undecided),
19% (Di -satisfied) or 67 minus 19 equals 48% net Satisfaction rating. Pulse
Asia’s 80% (Satisfied) 13% (Undecided), 7% (Dissatisfied) or 80% minus 7%
equals 73% net Satisfaction rating. 48 % and 73% ran smack on that days issues,
as stated by SWS, issues like the Senate probe into the shipment of P6.4
billion worth of shabu from China, in which the President’s son, Davao City
Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, and his son-in-law, Manases Carpio, appeared. Both
denied allegations they were involved in smuggling.
Another was the “revelation” of Duterte that Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th had a secret bank account in Singapore, which the senator disproved. The President later admitted that he just “invented” the bank account numbers that he had announced in public supposedly to “bait” his critic.
The killings of teens Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz, and Reynaldo de Guzman also dominated the headlines in August and early September, fanning public outrage and criticism of Duterte’s war on drugs, and others.
Another was the “revelation” of Duterte that Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th had a secret bank account in Singapore, which the senator disproved. The President later admitted that he just “invented” the bank account numbers that he had announced in public supposedly to “bait” his critic.
The killings of teens Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz, and Reynaldo de Guzman also dominated the headlines in August and early September, fanning public outrage and criticism of Duterte’s war on drugs, and others.
Who was
telling the truth in these two poll outfits?
Read my
blog/column: PulseAsia more credible than Social Weather Station
(You
can read my selected columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and
articles at Pangasinan News Aro. You can send comments too attotomortz@yahoo.com).
Jose Edwin Tandoc Gdpm prof ,Mortz ,Mas exciting Kong sama mo Bos Mark at Kimi baluarte Nila dian.
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Mar C. Ortigoza
Mar C. Ortigoza Si Mark Cojuangco daw balik for governor si Kimi di na daw tatakbo
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Jose Edwin Tandoc Ah ganon ba Prof.
OK ngarud return bout eto .Pag nasusugatan ang Texas tumatapang.
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Jose Edwin Tandoc
Jose Edwin Tandoc May mga balita ,Mark for Mayor of Urdaneta,May residence daw cia Urdaneta
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Silvestre A Rayos Jr.
Silvestre A Rayos Jr. Napahiya c Guv, saan ba galing ang pera ng mga Espino? Kaya gusto niyang wakasan ang hawak ng mga Perez sa Urdaneta
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Untalan Mon
Untalan Mon i had a long conversation w/ boss tammy velasco of Urdaneta last august 26 during the birthday celeb of his manugang,young Dasol Mayor Eric Verzosa, the kwentuhan
blues included abalayan former PNP Chief Jesus Verzosa,mistah Mayor Boying Alarcio of Laoac and w/ a cold glass of JW blue label that made our throat and faces thick ay npunta xempre sa pulitiko usapan, at ito nsabi ni boss tammy:kapag ang cojuangco ay bumalik sa probinxa o sa quinto distrito at si bosing Danding (and back up also by CTQ of Bayambang) ang mgmaniobra ay tiyak bbgyan ng sakit ng ulo ang mga espino!
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ReplyDeleteEspino can have any position they covet in Pangasinan. Now son Jummel is eyeing the 2 nd District, Hindi nila kaya sa gulangan c Amado, he bets on all horses, binibigyan nia pailalim mga Mayors na nasa kabila, he funds both ways
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