High – Official Hates the Mayor, VM of this Poor Town

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

A high official (H.E) in the country wants this one-horse town mayor and vice mayor ousted in the 2022 Election.

The reason:

Hizzoner (His Honor) the Mayor through his connection with the provincial power-that-be frustrated H.E to penetrate the villages of this poor municipality and buy votes there when he ran in the last election.

Fortunately he won in an upset victory against the patron of the mayor and H.E’s political rival.

The political landscape in the area changed dramatically when H.E became a high roller official.

“Gusto kung matalo iyong dalawa na iyan,” upon seeing the weekly newspaper of a publisher doing P.R job with the duo.

ONE-HORSE TOWN is a  small and unimportant place. This expression, first recorded in 1857, presumably alluded to a town so small that a single horse would suffice for its transportation needs (Photo Credit: Deviantart.com)

“Iyang si Vice Mayor bata rin ni mayor iyan, papalabanan ko na rin iyan,” High Official quipped.

He asked another media man if P15 million will be enough if he will pour it to vote buy and crush the elective future of the top two public officials of the economically lethargic town.

“Small time lang ang pulitika diyan puwede na ba tig da-dalawang libong (P2,000) kada ta-o?”

He added how incompetent the duo in running the public corporation (Yes Virginia, a local government unit or LGU is called like that on Administrative Law) because they don’t know how to run the LGU.

The town becomes a butt of a joke in terms of penury whenever it becomes the topic by commentators.

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Oh by the way there is no horse, either it be Arabian or Thoroughbred in that pathetic town.

There are motorized trikes that ply vice versa the poblacion and the villages and the two first class neighboring towns.

One - Horse Town means a  small and unimportant place. This expression, first recorded in 1857, presumably alluded to a town so small that a single horse would suffice for its transportation needs (Dictionary.com)

The description reflects how lousy are the political leaders there where they could not catapult economically the nascent municipality.

Let’s see on the 2022 Election how the anointed candidates of H.E, a deep pocketed individual, fares to the limited wherewithal of the Mayor and the Veem there.

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Noong nalason ako ng tulingan (mackerel tuna) kamakailan, my eldest son told me while I was lying on the bed dizzy and with a vigorous palpitation of the heart:

"Pa, sinabi ninyo pa sa akin kahapon pag namatay kayo huwag ko kalimutan iyong cellphone number ng supplier ng Davao Fruits kasi doon nakasalalay ang buhay naming mag ina sa fruit stand natin sa harap ng McDonald”.

Noong tinakbo na ako sa E.R bed ng hospital na hindi na ako makakita dahil umakyat na ang dugo sa mata ko, I asked the doctor dahil akala ko mamamatay na ako:

“Andito ba asawa ko, doc?” My wife said: “Andito ako”. "Iyong pangananay na anak ko?” "Andito ako pa," he said. "Iyong ikalawa?" Andito rin ako pa". "Iyong bunso?" "Andito rin ako, pa." "Iyong boy ko si Galman?" "Andito rin ako sa tabi ninyo sir".

Doon ako biglang bumangon, nakakita at nagmura sa loob ng hospital.

"ANO? ANDITO KAYONG LAHAT! PAANO IYONG FRUIT STAND NATIN INIWANAN NINYO WALANG NAGBABANTAY NANAKAWAN KAYO!

Now magaling na ako. Salamat sa pag init ng ulo ko at pagiging business minded. Kung hindi uminit at business minded, baka andoon na ako now sa Impiyerno nagbebenta na ng Ice Water kasama sila Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, at Saddam Hussein.

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