By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE PUNCH feels it is its duty to support Comelec’s call to candidates to comply with its rules on vote-buying and mounting of legal-sized posters even knowing that its scare tactics no longer work on the candidates and their supporters. Not only do the candidates…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   WHAT started as a political move to give a voice to marginalized sectors has turned out to be not only the country’s biggest highway robbery but also the biggest joke on the electorate. The system uses marginalized sectors as a front, disguised with motherhood statements,…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   NOW that the question of whether Vice President Sara Duterte will be impeached or not has been resolved with the submission of the fourth impeachment complaint to the Senate, the table is now turned on the congressmen on how they voted. First, it should be…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE Guico-Parayno feud is turning out to be like the wild forest fire that hit Los Angeles recently. The bush fire was started by Guv Mon-mon Guico and it has since spread like a wild fire and no one can predict how and where it…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   AGAIN! If you think the 7 epaLiFes have run out of abnormal precepts of how Dagupan should be governed, think again, because they have new views based on their position as the majority at the Dagupan sanggunian! After suffering serious major setbacks in their efforts,…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   AT the third edition of “Punching Duo” (myself and Punch columnist Gonz Duque) podcast with Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez as guest, we heard her sum up her accomplishments despite serious challenges from the opposition from 2022 to 2024, in what I believe is her…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THERE must be incidents in the early youths of the 7 epaLiFes, namely, Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez and Irene Lim-Acosta that traumatized them about their self-esteem and self-importance. I say this because they didn’t waste time to lead the rest of their uniformed barkada,…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE year has ended and the public has not been informed about details of the overseas travel to the USA and Spain of the provincial board members and their favorite provincial officials. Who paid for their travel? Pray tell, VG. Mark Lambino and Provincial Administrator…

By Ermin Garcia Jr   AFTER their temporary successors showed what it’s like to be productive, relevant, and committed lawmakers as the new majority, I have no doubt the old and now completely irrelevant 7 epaLiFes, are out of their wits trying to see how they could get out of…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE thieves at the House of Representatives are going for broke! They not only paid themselves millions weekly for doing the QuadCom hearings, but they would not hold themselves accountable for detaining resource persons who refused to give them the responses they needed to build…