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By Jun Velasco
AT the Manila Hotel Thursday noon, we bumped into Gov. Spines and his entourage including Reps. Art Celeste and Rachel Arenas, Board Member Raul Sison, his presumptive vice gubernatorial bet Freddie Calimlim, Mayors Rey Velasco, Ayoy Resuello, Roy Macanlalay, Ric Camacho, Armando Domantay and others we couldn’t remember.
We were about to ask Third District Rep. Rachel about a PDI column item that said she was losing to Gallant Soriano at the House Election Tribunal recount, but she had savvy. When we introduced her to a group of journalists, she snappily told them it was this columnist who foresaw her rise in the political scene in Pangasinan in the early 90’s. Amid the conversation, the HRET subject got lost.
The night before, a friend of Galant Soriano called him up. He was buoyant and raring to sit as the duly elected 3rd district congressman.
How’s this? The next election is 6 months away. And we overheard Rachel was poised to contest the HRET’s ballyhooed ruling because it was only reported in a newspaper column, not released by the electoral tribunal.
Which reminds us of a similar congressional election protest, also in the 3rd district, filed by the late Fabian Sison against Cora Primicias. Sison won the protest a few months before her congressional term terminated.
Justice delayed justice denied?
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The resurrection of the Liberal Party in Pangasinan by the Noynoy Aquino-Mar Roxas tandem is being marred by angst and heartaches with the easing out of Cory Aqunio’s loyal men hereabouts the likes of former Governors Rafael Colet and Oscar Orbos from the LP’s local hierarchy.
Probably Raffy and Oca find the LP’s gubernatorial team of Victor Agbayani and Oscar Lambino unacceptable, hence, the dark clouds over the rainbow. Our New York-based neighbor Gonzalo seemed to have correctly smelled that Agbayani’s surge to the local LP totem pole could mark a political realignment that would see the two LP originals – Orbos and Colet – with Guv’nor Espino’s Lakas-Kampi. Anything is possible in politics, you know.
Incidentally, our friends Ambie Valero and Mamer Manaois, younger brod of Teddy Manaois, called up to promote the provincial board reelection of Bobby Sison under the Liberal Party. Ok to, pare.
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On their way out of the Manila Hotel coffee shop, Spines and company bumped into presidentiable Jun Ebdane, surrounded by his technical people, poring over a political document.
Being mistahs, Jun and Spines behaved like they should have been doing more collaborative work. Ebdane and Espino were former Pangasinan police directors.
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The spontaneous crowd that massed in Mangaldan to send off and receive the cyclists who saw action in the Ebdane Cup stirred up a debate on which sport is the Pangasinse crazy about — is it cycling, boxing or basketball?
Jess Garcia, three time national cycling champ, quickly butts in to say that the province has produced the biggest number of cycling champs owing partly, he says, to the sport’s founding father, late Gerry Lacuesta. Boxing afficionados, however, point to the ardent interest shown by Pangasinenses when there is a championship especially with Manny Pacquiao in the ring.
Others say in Pangasinan there hardly is a home which does not have a boy playing basketball either as an entertainment or a sport.
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We were moved by a PDI article written by Johanna Moulic Morden of Villasis, Pangasinan as she recaptured the vivid tragedy brought by Typhoon Pepeng in Pangasinan especially in Eastern Pangasinan.
The article was a graphic description of government inutility and irresponsibility of the San Roque managers.
The fact that a young girl was terrorized by a colossal abuse of her soul due to neglect is enough to send those responsible of the killer deluge to jail.
The article was an indictment of the system and the callousness of those charged to protect lives.
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