Cong’s Bagman Greed, Mayor Mulls to Defect to Cong's Rival

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

A Mayor in the 3rd District told me that the Hizzoner of the other congressional District was distressed because the multi-million pesos projects he lobbied with two Senators - where he gave 15% of the S.O.P (euphemism of “lagay” in the vernacular) - have been snatched from him by the bagman of the Congressman.
When I met the anguishing Mayor he confirmed to me what his fellow Chief Executive told me.

He could let the greed of the family of this congressman pass by not giving him even a miniscule of the part of the cut they had from the contractors who did the public works in his town, but felt betrayed by being robbed by the bagman his more than P60 million of the projects from Manila that he would be constructing at the district of the Department of Public Works & Highway (DPWH).
The Hizzoner has a dummy construction firm.

"Naglagay pa ako sa DPWH. Noong ginagawa ko na inistop ako ni D.E (District Engineer of the DPWH) dahil utos ng tao ni Cong," he deplored

Another Mayor of the same District told me that the family of the congressman since time immemorial did not give a share of the loot from the funds of the projects being hosted by the town.
When I asked the affronted mayor that I mentioned earlier why another mayor of the landlocked town told me that the solon and his family gave him a percentage whenever the DPWH had a project in his town.

“Siga-siga kasi si Mayor (Because the mayor is a thug),” he told me.

The aggrieved mayor warned: Sabi ko nga pag di naayos ito pag hindi na ako pupunta diyan alam na nila,” he told me in Tagalog about his mulled withdrawal of support from the solon and his family because of their avarice.

When I asked him if he would support their purported rival – a high provincial official – in the May 2025 congressional election, he vigorously quipped: “Malamang (for sure)!’
The congressman and his family should check the gall of their bagman because this Hizzoner and his family are so popular in their municipality that would cost them their cash-cow office when they tangle with the well - funded provincial high official.
This would be a probable tussle between a young congressional candidate versus a very old and frail kin of the solon in 2025.
May tama kayo dito pag nag defect sa kabilang kampo pati iyong ibang mga mayors dahil sa kasakiman ninyo.