VM Scheming Against his Mayor

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Despite being seen in a chummy photo-op with each other, the Mayor is ambivalent about the public support espoused by his Vice Mayor.

Upon assumption of office in June 30 this year, the Hizzoner has to see if the Veem - his long-time political rival and nemesis – and his almost all allied members of the Sanggunian Bayan (legislative body) will support his needed resolutions and ordinances for his programs until his term will end on June 30, 2025.

The Vice Mayor is a seasoned former mayor.

A scheming  politico. Photo credit: Sound Card

Friends of the Hizzoner advise him not to lower his guards on succumbing to the assurances of the palsy walsy Veem to support all his programs and policies in his three years’ term in office. 

The red flag started to rear its ugly head when members of the more or less 70 of a homegrown club in the town told the Mayor that as the election of the president of their organization comes near, the Veem allegedly bankrolled the vote buying at P5,000 per member.

“Mantakin mo election lang ng presidente tag limang libo ang bilihan,” the mayor emphatically said.

But the fair haired boy of the vice mayor did not succeed because the Hizzoner told the members that incase the anointed candidate of the Veem wins he could not make a courtesy call in his office and the absence of support he will give to the organization.

The members heeded exhortation of the Mayor by electing the candidate who is friendly with him.

The Hizzoner’s peer told him that his Veem is maneuvering to recapture in 2025 the highest elective post of the town.

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Back to the pronouncements of the Veem of his unconditional support to his Mayor until 2025, we should take it with a grain of salt.

As what the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said in an axiom about politicians:

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers".

The Veem pledges are written in water, even if there is no river and no bridges salamabit hahaha, my dear Mayor.

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For history sake to the Flips, er, Filipinos who ain’t read majors events in the past. Don’t you know what took the goat of Soviet Premier Khrushchev – First Secretary General of the Soviet Union - to bang his shoe on his table in a United Nations’ assembly so his voice could be heard?

A Filipino politician named Lorenzo Sumulong - a kin of the Aquinos of Tarlac.

 I don't know if Khrushchev was inebriated by the legendary Russian vodka, but the Commie leader pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Sumulong during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York City on 12 October 1960.

The reason?

Lorenzo Sumulong - a 40 years Philippines Senator - called the people of Eastern Europe – part then of the iron of curtain of the Soviet that Josef Stalin annexed like what Vladimir Putin done to Ukraine's regions - and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights because of the juggernaut bully state. Upon hearing this, Khrushchev banged his shoe and quickly came to the rostrum and demonstratively, in a theatrical manner, brushed U.N Delegate Sumulong aside, with an upward motion of his right arm—without physically touching him—and began a lengthy denunciation of the Filipino politician, branding him as a jerk, a stooge, a lackey, and a toady of American imperialism and demanded U.N Assembly President Frederick Boland from Ireland to call Sumulong to order.

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Geez, how lucky are followers of warfare like me. When the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army battered and defeated the French in Dien Bien Phu and besieged the U.S military in the Tet Offensive, war enthusiasts contended themselves in reading what ensued on the broad sheets like New York Times and Mags like Newsweek and Times.

Now, every day You Tube videos abound with latest breaking news about the progress of how the Ukrainian army bludgeoned the absconding Russian soldiers in the democratic land their despotic leader Vladimir Putin ordered invaded.

Military analysts proliferate too. They are retired U.S Army Colonel Cedric Leigton, retired four-star Army General Wesley Kanne Clark -  Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000 -, retired Army General David Howell Petraeus who was the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, former U.S National Security Adviser and retired Army Lt. Gen. Herbert Raymond McMaster to name a few.

Here’s an excerpt of the analysis of U.S Army retired Colonel Cedric Leighton on the possible military tactics of Ukraine as it prepares to launch an attack on the Luhansk Region Putin annexed as Russian Territory. Leighton also discussed the use of more lethal U.S made MGM -140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to fuel the momentum of the Ukrainian multiple attacks on the beleaguered Russian soldiers who have inferior number and who reeled in a low morale.

The ATACMS provide the soldiers the ability to engage both point and area high value targets with precision fires out to 300 km.

Probably part of the 18 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) the U.S will give to Kyiev government economic and military packages – part of the $15.8 billion aid.

Since the war that started in February, the U.S government gave Ukraine 16 HIMARS plus the incoming 18 HIMARS and ATACMS that will be 34 long range sniper like rockets and missiles.

Despite hitting accurately their targets - thanks to the GPS guided- HIMARS - that resulted to the Russians being massacred, screaming like whore when hit, and running like rats from their positions, the HIMARS can fire only 95 kilometers unlike the 300 kilometers range of the ATCM that can hit Russian cities, too susmariosep.

READ MY OTHER BLOG:

The Lethal, Costly Weapons of a Cobra

MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

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I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials's idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.